CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
810 HILLSIDE Ter
DPR523A - Primary [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
Survey #:
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NRHP Status Code: 5S1 
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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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 810 HILLSIDE Ter City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code:
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.167246  mE/ 34.130522  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 house at 810 Hillside Terrace is a mid-century single-family residence terraced into a heavily wooded ridge in Lower San Rafael with distant views overlooking the Arroyo Seco and San Gabriel Mountains. Constructed in 1954, the two-story, Japanese-influenced California Modern house has an irregular plan. The exterior walls are clad with redwood plank siding. The horizontal planks have a deep concave profile that aligns with the main framing members of the ground floor window screens and Moderne influenced railings and trellis along the south elevation of the house. The 4,474 square-foot house has a gently sloping hipped roof with cross gables, and has no exposed rafters. A unique feature of the roof structure is the concealment of the rain gutters in boxed eaves. The same wood siding used to finish and enclose the deep eaves is used for the wood siding. An attached, enclosed carport (originally open-air with a pergola) is located at the front of the property with the house built into the hillside above. Flagstone steps lead from the street landing to wrap around the north side of the carport up to the front door. A red brick-faced retaining wall forms the front steps and encloses the carport. The narrow profile of the brick reiterates the horizontality of the siding and the low roofline. Horizontality is reinforced through other design details of the exterior.

The ground floor has few windows facing the street (west elevation). Those that are present are situated behind exterior wooden fretwork screens designed with a bold Asian motif. The street- facing windows on the second floor have teak fretwork screens placed behind jalousie windows. In contrast to the screened windows on the front elevation, the windows on the rear of the house (east elevation) are large glazed openings, some floor to ceiling, designed to take advantage of unobstructed views to the northeast.

Heavy plantings surround the house on all sides. The landscape palette, including bamboo, various species of palms, azaleas, plumeria, Bottle Brush and Silk Floss Trees reinforces the Asian theme of the house.
 
*P3b.  Resource Attributes:  (List attributes and codes)  
 
*P4.  Resources Present:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of a District Other
 
P5a.  Photograph or Drawing (Photograph required for buildings, structures, and objects.)
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*P6.
Date Constructed/Age and Source:
Historic PreHistoric
Both Neither
Year Built: 1954 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
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*P8.
Recorded By:
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: -/-/-
 
*P10.
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*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
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