| Address: |
391 S ORANGE GROVE Blvd |
APN: |
5714-006-900 |
This property is designated by the city as an individual historic resource (see "designation type" field for the specific city designation type). *
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| Address: |
391 S ORANGE GROVE Blvd |
| City: |
Pasadena |
State: |
CA |
| Zip Code: |
91105 |
County: |
Los Angeles |
| County Code: |
37 |
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| Historic Name: |
Wrigley Estate |
Common Name: |
Tournament of Roses House |
| APN: |
5714-006-900 |
Zoning: |
PS |
| Building Sq. Ft: |
18500 |
Site Size (Acres): |
2.550 |
| Year Built: |
1906 Documented |
District: |
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Property Status: |
Designated |
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| Resource Description: |
The resource is a 2-story former residence with contemporary administrative offices attached to the rear on the corner of South Orange Grove Blvd. and Arbor St. The historic portion of the building is L-shaped in plan with the leg of the L at the north end projecting toward the rear. It consists of three bays with a porte-cochere on the north side mirrored by an attached pergola on the south. Its mostly symmetrical facade has a hipped dormer centered on the medium-pitched hipped roof of green glazed clay tiles. Each of the side bays has two sash windows upstairs and two down.
Construction is of poured concrete and clad in stucco. The house is designed in the Italian Renaissance style, and massing is articulated by attached pergola, offices, and a port cochere on three sides, and a 1-story rear wing is nestled inside the L of the main structure in the rear.
A hipped roof of medium-low pitch is clad in green barrel tiles.The roof hip seams on each corner end with enameled green metal floral elements. The roof is surrounded by painted metal gutters on all sides. Boxed eaves are held by alternating groups of one and three scrolling brackets with a vine motif on each underside.
The front (east) façade is symmetrical and designed in three bays: north, center and south. Both outer bays have three windows up and three down; the center bay has a portico with segmented arches on all three sides leading to the entry and topped with a balustrade, bracketed cornice, and faux balcony above. The portico traverses the terrace along the face of the building enclosed by a low cast-stone balustrade.
The northern arm of the terrace wraps under a patio-topped porte cochere two arches wide and one deep whose arches, keystones, posts and brackets match those of the entry portico and faux balcony. A curved concrete drive with green concrete faux brick at its center runs through the outermost arch. Simple concrete steps lead from the porte cochere to the terrace. The terrace ends shortly after wrapping to the north façade where a double glass door of a segmented arch shape leads into the house. The roof and its balustrade curve and widen near the house to shelter this north-facing segment of terrace and door.
The southern end of the terrace terminates in a pergola of thick concrete posts with plain fillet capitals, and square wooden posts.
Four low bullnose marble steps rise from the curving concrete walkway to the front entry. The entry portion of the terrace is white marble and the portico has a convex oval field in its ceiling. The wooden front door intricately carved and paneled with egg-and-dart motif around the edges and an oversized carving of a lion-head knocker. Side lights are protected with decorative wrought iron.
Fenestration on the north and south bays consists of 1-over-1 sash windows upstairs with rectangular window cornices above and balconets with intricate wrought iron banisters on the upper floor. On the first floor, three segment-arched double doors lead from each side bay to the terrace. Each door is enclosed in a plain rectangular surround standing proud from the face and adorned with a curving keystone on top. These door surrounds terminate in a simple belt course.
The center bay has a triple window arrangement above the entry portico with a rectangular fixed center pane and decorative iron security grates on each of the operable side lights; all three are of equal height. Centered above this in the roof is a low hipped dormer with a balustrade and faux balcony. Smaller dormers of the same design with the same double square windows adorn all but the southern face of the roof.
Both the south and north façades have stuccoed chimneys which perforate the eaves and roof. They have a stepped design in relief on each side, and are capped with a simple corniced top. Windows on the north and rear facades are simple sashes on the second floor with a 2-window triangular ‘bay’ on the directly under the dormer and protected by a projecting triangular section of the stringer. The top of each second floor window aligns with this stringer which is integral with the window surrounds. The first floor windows closer to the rear of the house are transoms above wood double casement windows.
On the south facade, first floor windows include a bowed window of 6 or more lights with a metal roof. The window doesn't appear to be original. Upper windows include the same style as the front plus a double sliding window of four panes total. The rear of the building is a one-story wing of possible later construction with a pebbly stucco finish. Numerous arched double glass doors lead to a rear, balustraded terrace which appears to have been widened recently with new concrete added. Concrete stairs with wrought iron railings lead to an extensive landscaped side yard.
A structure likely to have been the garage and chauffeur quarters sits to the northwest of the house with similar construction and roof tiles. A rolling wooden door covers a garage door-sized aperture. Windows on the south facade have been filled in and a contemporary door and stairs have been added; other facades are mostly obscured by vegetation.
A curved arbor with a center portico of green tiled roof and stucco construction lies to the north of the main house.
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| Legal Description: |
| EX OF ST LOTS 1,2 AND 3 AND ALL OF LOTS 41 AND 42 |
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| Primary Architectural Style: |
Italian Renaissance Revival
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| Secondary Architectural Style: |
Mediterranean Revival |
| Architect: |
George Lawrence Stimson |
| Builder: |
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| Context: |
Arts & Crafts Period
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| Original Owner: |
William Wrigley |
| Original Use: |
Single Family Residence |
| Original Location: |
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| Demolished: |
no |
| Notes: |
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| Moved: |
no |
| Date Moved: |
n/a |
| Designation Date: |
n/a |
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* This is a simplified statement of the property's status. Please review the NRHP Status Code field on the search screen for official, adopted status language.
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