CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
455 SUMMIT Ave
DPR523A - Primary [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
Survey #:
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NRHP Status Code: 1D 
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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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 455 SUMMIT Ave City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code: 91103
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.148135  mE/ 34.153707  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 house is an example of the Vernacular Hipped Cottage subtype, with Queen Anne detailing applied in the form of turned porch posts and railing, spindlework and lacelike curvilinear brackets. A hipped roof dormer projects from the roof and covers an open balcony with a turned wood balustrade. A polygonal bay with a gable-with-shed roof with fish-scale shingles in the gable end projects from the north elevation. The full-width, wrap-around front porch is recessed under the main roof, which is covered in composition shingles. The house has exterior walls clad in wood drop channel siding with corner boards, a concrete foundation and wood double-hung, fixed and transom windows, some with square divided lights, within wood-framed and pedimented openings. The house has a replacement front door with an oval-shaped light in a wood-framed opening topped by a transom. A secondary door at the south end of the street-facing elevation is obscured by a metal security screen and is in a pedimented opening. Based on county assessor’s records, the property has two rear houses were built in 1937 and 1940; the use and construction date of the third is unknown. Two of the buildings are minimally visible from the street; one is not visible at all. The front yard is slightly elevated above street level by an Arroyo stone retaining wall topped by an ornamental-steel fence with concrete piers.

Style: Vernacular Hipped Cottage 
 
*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: 1892 - 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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