CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
450 N RAYMOND Ave
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State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
Survey #:
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NRHP Status Code: 1D; 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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 450 N RAYMOND Ave City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code: 91103
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.148616  mE/ 34.153539  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)
This two-story house is an example of the Shingle Style subtype (with some Colonial Revival detailing) and is an early work of the Pasadena-based architectural firm of Charles Greene & Henry Greene, whose later work would be the most celebrated of the American Arts & Crafts movement in Pasadena. The house has a complex roof form, including a primary hipped roof with gambrel roofed wings projecting from the west and south elevations and a five-sided polygonal bay with an octagonal roof at the southeast corner. All roofs have boxed eaves with extended block modillions. The oval-shaped attic window on the front-facing gambreled-roof wing has colored art glass and an elongated keystone. A second-floor balcony with a rounded solid railing accessed by French doors connects the two bays on the west elevation. The projecting full-width front porch has a hipped roof, a low solid wall rather than an open railing and is supported by heavy square columns clad in wood lap siding with mitered corners. The house has a composition shingle roof; walls clad in rectangular wood shingles on the second floor and narrow exposure wood lap siding with mitered corners on the first floor; a concrete foundation; wood double-hung windows in wood-framed openings and a non-original front door with a fan-shaped light in an original wood-framed opening flanked by sidelights. Two different muntin patterns are evident in the house, including diamond-shaped and, on the polygonal bay, a centered circular muntin with four radiating muntins at 90-degree intervals. Between the polygonal bay and the southerly gambrel-roofed wing is a brick chimney; a wood exterior staircase was attached to the north elevation when the house was converted to apartments in 1940. The front yard is slightly elevated from the street by a concrete curb, which is topped by a newer wood
fence.



Plan: RectangularStories: 2
Style: ShingleDecorative Elements: Brackets
Facade: AsymmetricalFenestration: Asymmetrical
Roof Form: Hipped;Bell-shaped;GambrelRoof Orientation: N/A
Roof Material: Composition shinglesRoof Pitch: steep
Roof Details: Cornices;BracketsTowner Form: No tower
Chimney Location: Side wallChimney Materials: Brick
Window Types: Double-hung;FixedWindow Detailing: Divided lights - diamond/lozenge-shaped;Pedimented
Window Material: Wood;Stained glassDoors: Single;Door glazing;Paneled
Door Details: FramedCladding: Wood lap siding;Wood shingles-rectangular
Foundation: ConcretePorch: Projecting;Support posts classical;Full-width;Hipped roof
Setting: Fenced yard;Retaining wall - concreteGarage: Garage not visible
Alterations: DoorsNotes: Balcony w/french doors; Queen Anne influences
 
*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: 1897 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
Name:  
Address:  
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*P8.
Recorded By:
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: -/-/-
 
*P10.
Survey Type: Survey - Intensive
Survey Title: 2010 Late 19th/Early 20th Centuries
 
*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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