CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
626 S Arroyo Blvd
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State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
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NRHP Status Code: 3S 
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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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 626 S Arroyo Blvd City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code: 91105
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.165971  mE/ 34.135077  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)
The Batchelder/Dean Garden is a private residential designed garden built in 1910. It is located on South Arroyo Boulevard in the southwestern portion of the City of Pasadena, immediately east of the Arroyo Seco. The garden extends onto two separate properties that total 0.62 acres in size; however, this designation is only for the property on which the buildings associated with Batchelder’s life and work are located. The property is within a single-family residential neighborhood on the edge of the Arroyo Seco, a natural canyon and stream that runs through the City of Pasadena and other adjacent cities. The primary garden area is at the rear of the property, with additional garden space near the entry to the house. A pool with surrounding deck and planters was built in 1968 at the north-central portion of the property, designed by Francis Dean (of the landscape architecture firm EDAW), who owned the property at the time. The main rear garden area is asymmetrical in plan and is characterized by rectilinear brick pathways, steps and pads lined with Arroyo stones; brick perimeter walls; tiled fountains and mature trees with newer drought-tolerant landscaping. The garden near the entry to the house has pathways and pads of glazed tiles lined with brick, a tiled fountain and newer drought-tolerant landscaping. The pool area is enclosed by a wood fence and has a series of interconnected rectilinear forms created by the pool itself, integrated planters and the surrounding deck.
 
*P3b.  Resource Attributes:  (List attributes and codes)  
 
*P4.  Resources Present:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of a District Other
 
P5a.  Photograph or Drawing (Photograph required for buildings, structures, and objects.)
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*P6.
Date Constructed/Age and Source:
Historic PreHistoric
Both Neither
Year Built: 1910 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
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*P8.
Recorded By:
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: -/-/-
 
*P10.
Survey Type: Survey - Intensive
Survey Title: 2012 Historic Designed Gardens
 
*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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