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Survey Title: |
2006 Recent Past |
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| B1. |
| Historic Name: |
Graham Laing House
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| B2. |
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| B3. |
| Original Use: |
Single Family Residence
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| B4. |
Present Use: |
Single Family Residence
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| *B5a. |
| Primary Architectural Style: |
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| B5b. |
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| *B6. |
| Construction History: |
Date Built: |
1935
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| *B7. |
| Moved?: |
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Unknown
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| *B8. |
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| *B9a. |
| Architect: |
Harwell Hamilton Harris
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Builder: |
H.R. Kasielke
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| National Register Criteria: |
C
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The Laing House is significant as the earliest surviving International Style house in Pasadena. It acquires additional significance because of its associations with the early work of Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990). This house is one of the first designed by Harris after he left the offices of Richard Neutra in 1933 to begin his own practice. Like other houses designed by him in the 1930s, the Laing house is moored in the European Modernism/Bauhaus traditions of Neutra and Schindler and predates the highly individual styling of his later works, which were executed in native woods. The house is noteworthy as well because of its high level of integrity. Documentation about the house is in the Alexander Architectural Archive (Harwell Harris collection) at the University of Texas, Austin: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/apl/aaa/
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| Additional Resource Attributes: |
HP02
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| *B12. |
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| B13. |
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| *B14. |
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