CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
3360 E FOOTHILL Blvd
DPR523A - Primary [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
Survey #:
DOE #:
Primary #:  
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Trinomial:  
NRHP Status Code: 1S 
Other Listings:  
Review Code:    Reviewer:   
Date: -/-/-
 
 
*Resource Name or #:  
 
P1.  Other Identifier:  
 
*P2.  Location: not for publication   unrestricted
*a.  County Los Angeles 
and (P2c, P2e, and P2b or P2d. Attach a Location Map as Necessary)
b.  USGS 7.5' Quad:   YEAR:   T   ; R   ;   of   of Sec   ;   B.M.
c.  Address: 3360 E FOOTHILL Blvd City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code:
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.08066  mE/ 34.149142  mN
e.  Other Locational Data: (e.g., parcel #, directions to resource, elevation, etc., as appropriate)
 
*P3a.  Description:  (Describe resource and its major elements. Include design, materials, condition, alterations, size, setting, and boundaries)
The Stuart Company Plant and Office Building, designed in the New Formalism style, is a steel and concrete building measuring 190 feet by 190 feet. An arcade consisting of a patterned concrete wall with a flat roof above, supported by round steel columns, is an integral part of this building, and extends easterly for a total of 403 feet. The north and east elevations are glass and aluminum curtain walls; the west and south walls are of concrete block cast with an oval "capsule" pattern. Distinguishing the north facade of the building is a one-story concrete screen, set beneath an overhanging flat roof. Slender, regularly placed, round steel columns, animated with thin metal stock in a meandering geometric pattern, support the roof. The columns have a gold lacquer finish. The white screen wall, which consists of individual concrete blocks in a repeating circle-and-square pattern, extends across the front facade of the main building and continues to the east. Raised brass bosses punctuate the surface of the screen at each corner intersection of concrete blocks. Seven large gold-lacquered saucers, suspended from chains, enliven the front of the east screen. Identical metal saucers, originally used as planters for vines and ferns, also appear inside the central atrium of the building. A recessed main entrance to the complex divides the screen wall into two sections. To the west of the entrance, fountains and freestanding circular planters are set within the reflecting pool. The black-bottomed pool extends to just east of the entrance; beyond it, running 192 feet to the east, the screen steps back in place and, as a perforated freestanding wall, delineates the southern edge of the parking area. At night, the latticed screen wall was originally brilliantly illuminated from behind. The effect is a dramatic tableaux: interior offices appearing through a transparent, gossamer-like wall and reflected below in the pool. Originally, the fountains inthe basin of the pool were also illuminated.
 
*P3b.  Resource Attributes:  (List attributes and codes)  
 
*P4.  Resources Present:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of a District Other
 
P5a.  Photograph or Drawing
additional photos (Photograph required for buildings, structures, and objects.)
P5b.
Description of Photo:
 
*P6.
Date Constructed/Age and Source:
Historic PreHistoric
Both Neither
Year Built: 1958 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
Name:  
Address:  
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*P8.
Recorded By:
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: 08/25/2008
 
*P10.
Survey Type:
Survey Title:
 
*P11.  Report Citation: (Cite survey report and other sources, or enter "none.")
 
*Attachments:
NONE Location Map Sketch Map Continuation Sheet
Building, Structure, and Ojbect Record Archaeological Record District Record Linear Feature Record
Milling Station Record Rock Art Record Artifact Record Photograph Record
Other:
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