CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
711 S San Rafael Ave
DPR523B - Bldg, Struct & Object [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
BUILDING, STRUCTURE & OBJECT RECORD
Primary #:  
HRI #:  
*NRHP Status Code: 3S 
*Resource Name or #:   Survey Title: 2006 Recent Past 
 
B1.
Historic Name: Case Study House #10 
B2.
Common Name:  
B3.
Original Use: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE 
B4.  Present Use:  
*B5a.
Primary Architectural Style: International /Modern Style 
B5b.
Secondary Architectural Style:  
*B6.
Construction History: Date Built: 1947 
A permit was issued in 1969 for the addition of a family room, sewing room, dressing room and bath (designed by the same architect that originally designed the house, Kemper Nomland).
*B7.
Moved?: Yes No  Unknown Date:    Original Location:   
*B8.
Related Features:
*B9a.
Architect: Kemper Nomland & Kemper Nomland, Jr. 
b. Builder:  
*B10.
Significance: Theme:   Area: Regional 
Period of Significance: Recent Past  Property Type: Single Family Residence 
Applicable Criteria:
National Register Criteria: A, C  California Register: 1, 3  Local Register:  
Context:   Other:  
Case Study House #10 at 711 S. San Rafael Avenue is the only house in Pasadena that was a part of the Case Study House program of Arts & Architecture magazine. The program was intended to produce affordable housing prototypes that could be replicated on other properties and involved a number of significant architects from the Modernist period.
 
B11.
Additional Resource Attributes: HP02 
*B12.
References:
 
B13.
Remarks:
 
*B14.
Evaluator: Kevin Johnson 
Date of Evaluation: 11/30/2006 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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