CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL RESOURCES INVENTORY DATABASE
City of Pasadena
 
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Resource Summary
2800 E Colorado
DPR523A - Primary [print]
State of California - The Resource Agency
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
PRIMARY RECORD
 
 
Survey #:
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Trinomial:  
NRHP Status Code: 5S2 
Other Listings:  
Review Code:    Reviewer:   
Date: -/-/-
 
 
*Resource Name or #: Swiss Lodge 
 
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  Location: not for publication   unrestricted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: 2800 E Colorado City: Pasadena State: CA Zip Code: 91107
d.  UTM: (Give more than one for large and/or linear resources)   Zone:   ; -118.092674  mE/ 34.145842  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)
In 1961 Pasadena saw the first of two adjoining motels in "fantasy" designs. The Erlee Construction Company of Studio City building this complex for the Hyatt Chalet Motels Inc. It is a two-story U-shaped structure in a "story Book Swiss" style, executed in stucco with colorful wooden trim. The office building is sheltered by an A-frame roof (painted orange on the outside and bright blue inside) and the A-frame design pattern is inlaid in a "V" pattern and painted gold and royal blue. A modified mansard roof (concealing a flat, gravel roof) covers most of the Colorado Boulevard structure. Decorative wooden brackets support the orange painted, outward sloping mansard. A decorative wooden railing encloses the stairway, the second floor walkway and the swimming pool.
 
*P3b.  Resource Attributes:  (List attributes and codes) HP05 
 
*P4.  Resources Present:
Building Structure Object Site District Element of a District Other
 
P5a.  Photograph or Drawing (Photograph required for buildings, structures, and objects.)
P5b.
Description of Photo:
 
*P6.
Date Constructed/Age and Source:
Historic PreHistoric
Both Neither
Year Built: 1961 - Documented
 
*P7.
Owner and Address:
Name:  
Address:  
,  
 
*P8.
Recorded By:
Kevin Johnson
Senior Planner
City of Pasadena
175 N. Garfield Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
 
*P9.
Date Recorded: 09/23/2013
 
*P10.
Survey Type: Survey - Intensive
Survey Title:
 
*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
Other:
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