CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
875 Canon Dr
DPR523A - Primary [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
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NRHP Status Code: 5S1; 3D 
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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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 875 Canon Dr City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code: 91106
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.132706  mE/ 34.128724  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 Site
The site includes the one-story main house, which is attached to a lath house designed by Greene & Greene, a freestanding potting shed, also designed by Greene & Greene, both built in 1911, and a carport (attached to the foundation of the house, at a lower grade, but providing no interior access to the house). The remainder of the site has landscape and hardscape features.

The main house is slightly angled relative to the street and, therefore, has a front setback ranging from 20 to 30 feet deep. The setting of the house and the others on Cañon Drive is uniquely wooded and lush, giving a feeling of seclusion and connection to nature within a developed urban area. The site slopes upward from south to north and has terraced front and rear yards

Exterior Features of the Building
The one-story house is rectangular in plan, with the longer end oriented roughly parallel to the street, although at a slight receding angle from west to east, as noted above. It has a flat roof with no parapet and a shallow overhang, except at the recessed entry. Two portions of the roof extend upward toward the rear in a shallow shed form to create clerestories. The house has a very high level of glazing on the exterior walls, with fixed metal-framed window walls above a base of vertically and horizontally oriented wood tongue-and-groove siding. The recessed entry has a single unpainted solid-wood door with wide fluted-glass sidelights. The stone flooring in the recessed entry continues to the interior of the house, as was common in buildings from this period. Adjacent to the entry is a wide running-course brick chimney, which, above the roofline, narrows to half of the width of the portion below.

Upon entry into the house, the line of sight is immediately directed to the attached Green & Greene lath house behind a wall of glass windows and doors. The lath house maintains its openness except that a portion extends into the interior of the house where two small closets were created. The wood slats of the lath house remain evident on the exterior of these closets.

Carport & Site Features
The carport is at a lower grade than the house and is attached to the house’s foundation. It is a simple design, built into the hillside, with a flat roof and slender wood support posts.

The terraced front yard is supported by split-face stone retaining walls with piers of concrete-capped soldier course stone, one along the entire front property line (ending at the driveway). There is another, shorter wall midway between the street and the house along a pathway leading to the main entrance. The entry pathway is marked by a freestanding fountain of the same soldier-course stone. The rear yard is also terraced and has a gunite retaining wall and steps designed by Greene & Greene.

Structures designed by Greene & Greene were part of the Cordelia Culbertson estate at 1188 Hillcrest Avenue. Property address was originally 920 Fairfield Circle.
 
*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: 1952 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
Name: WILLIAM WALLING 
Address:  
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*P8.
Recorded By:
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: 02/28/2007
 
*P10.
Survey Type: Survey - Intensive
Survey Title: 2006 Recent Past
 
*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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