CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
491 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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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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 491 SUMMIT Ave City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code: 91103
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.148125  mE/ 34.154296  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 oversized American Foursquare subtype with influences of the Two-Story Arts and Crafts Period House subtype described in the Multiple Property Documentation Form, “Residential Architecture of Pasadena, CA 1895-1918: Influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement.”. It has a primary hipped roof with flared eaves and multiple large dormers, all of which have exposed curving rafter tails with rounded ends. The full-width front porch also has a flared hipped roof, which is truncated due to the presence of a balcony above. The porch roof is supported by square wooden posts with classical capitals; the balcony has a simple wooden railing. A portion of the second story on the south elevation extends beyond the first floor and has curving consoles. The base of the second floor flares outward directly above a simple wooden molding. The house has a composition shingle roof; walls clad in rectangular wood shingles on the second floor and wood lap siding with mitered corners on the first floor and solid porch walls; a concrete foundation; wood doublehung, casement, transom and fixed windows, some with diamond-patterned muntins; and a front door obscured from view by a metal security screen in an original wood-framed opening. One window on the south elevation has a shallow arch. The influence of the emerging Arts and Crafts movement is expressed in the complexity of the massing, the width of the eaves and the exposed rafters.

To the rear of the property, visible from E. Villa Street is a carriage house with both one and two-story elements, flared low-hipped roofs with a central gable on the two-story portion, metal finials, an upperstory hayloft door with a hoist, replacement solid wood doors in original wood-framed openings, and walls clad in wood lap siding matching the house. The third building on the property, a small accessory building, was built after 1910 and is non-contributing. The property is elevated from the street by an Arroyo stone retaining wall topped by a chain link fence. Two mature Canary Island date palms flank the entry gate in the front yard. The house and carriage house are in excellent condition, retain most of their original character, with the exception of replaced doors on the carriage house, and are contributing to the district. The carriage house is an exceptional feature in the district because of the scarcity of this property type, because of its size and relatively elaborate massing, and because of its relatively intact condition.

Style: American Foursquare 
 
*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.)
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*P6.
Date Constructed/Age and Source:
Historic PreHistoric
Both Neither
Year Built: 1901 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and 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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