Best Heritage Preservation Pasadena Near Me

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The mission of Pasadena Heritage is to identify, preserve and protect the historic, architectural and cultural resources of the City of Pasadena through advocacy and education.

Pasadena Heritage is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit founded in 1977 to combat the demolition of cherished cultural and historic landmarks in Pasadena.

4worldlovers: The building was constructed circa 1887 and is designated as South Pasadena Landmark #5. In 1982 it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property in the South Pasadena Historic Business District. It is among a small number of comparably old wood frame buildings in the city and represents the earliest type of structures seen in the town’s commercial district before the turn of the twentieth century. The two-story, redwood building originally operated as a general store. Over time it has served as a hotel, ticket office, telegraph station, bicycle shop, chapel, and school. In 1943, this and adjacent utility structures, now demolished, became the site of a foundry known as Meridian Iron Works, which remained through the 1970s. The City of South Pasadena acquired the property, and due to its age and significance as a resource for community history, undertook extensive rehabilitation of the property in 1986.

Today, the building houses the South Pasadena Historical Museum operated by the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation. The museum displays a permanent collection of artifacts from the earliest history of South Pasadena and the entire San Gabriel Valley. Occasionally the museum will show private collections.

In January 2016, the City contracted with Architectural Resources Group (ARG) and architectural colorist and designer, Alisa Smith, to assist with historic preservation planning and provide full architectural services, including research on the physical and use history of the facility (through photographs, city documents, and online resources), analysis on the exterior color of the museum, and monitoring to ensure compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation.

During the August 18, 2016 Cultural Heritage Commission meeting, a presentation was made to solicit feedback regarding the repainting of the Meridian Iron Works Museum. The building is a rare and important historic resource for the City and the City’s goal is that its rehabilitation proceeds according to recognized preservation practices.

4worldlovers: On this walking tour, the rich variety of forms and detailing of houses from the turn of the 20th century express the changing tastes and trends, as designers learned to adapt Eastern and Midwest styles to California’s climate, while responding to advances in technology and the greater availability of a range of building materials. You will see examples of rusticated Richardsonian Romanesque, detailed Queen Anne, Prairie and American Foursquare, expansive Shingle style and Craftsman homes, as well as more modest examples of Folk Victorian and vernacular cottages. The Ross Grove Landmark District at the tour’s beginning includes the largest remaining grouping of original South Orange Grove homes still in existence.

You can click on any house in the list below to jump to information about that property in the California Historical Resources Inventory Database. Known as the CHRID, this program promotes and protects cultural heritage through documenting and sharing information on historical resources.

At the end of this tour, another nearby walking tour can show you even more Victorian Grandeur: the Governor Markham Landmark District (named for Henry Harrison Markham, California governor’s 1891-1895, “the dashing colonel from Pasadena”). With its quiet streets bordered by sidewalks, period streetlights, and mature street trees , it’s considered one of the best and most intact examples of this period in Pasadena.

Part of the Ross Grove Landmark District, this 1911 home is one of the few examples of the Prairie Style in Pasadena.

Part of the Ross Grove Landmark District, this 1906 Craftsman home was designed by Joseph J. Blick.

Built in 1892, this Colonial Revival style home designed by Joseph J. Blick and Edward C. Kent is part of the Ross Grove Landmark District.

This 1910 Prairie Style home designed by Frederick Roehrig, one of the few of this style in Pasadena, is part of the Ross Grove Landmark District.

With its American Foursquare form and Richardsonian Romanesque detailing, this 1890 house designed by Frederick Roehrig is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

This 1887 Queen Anne home is eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Built in 1886 at Orange Grove and Colorado Court, this Folk Victorian house was moved to its present location in 1901. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Also built in 1886, this modest Victorian home is an example of a Vernacular Hipped Cottage.

This 1886 Queen Anne style home is eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

With its prominent, steeply-pitched roof and vernacular design elements, this 1893 home is described as Folk Victorian style.

Built in 1904, the expansive form of this Craftsman style home designed by Joseph J. Blick shows elements of the Shingle style, as these newer influences began to overtake earlier Victorian styles.

This 1893 Shingle style home with Dutch Colonial Revival elements was designed by Locke & Preston. It is eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Designed by Joseph J. Blick, this 1903 Shingle style home features curved walls flanking the row of third floor windows in its front gable, and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

This graciously sited 1893 Shingle style home, featuring lozenge-shaped gable end details and Arroyo stone foundation and landscape elements, was designed by Locke & Preston for Frank C. Bolt, the “dean of Pasadena bankers” in this period. It is eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Although built after the period of significance of this tour, this 1910 house includes some Victorian-era as well as Swiss Chalet style detailing.

Originally built south of downtown Los Angeles near the West Adams area, this elaborately detailed 1893 Queen Anne house designed by William O. Merithew was moved in 1902 to a nearby site, and again in 1982 to its current location. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

Built in 1887, this house is described as an example of Folk Victorian composition.

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South Pasadena actively promotes and protects its architectural and cultural heritage.

The city has been a Certified Local Government since 2001. It is in the process of updating its historic preservation ordinance, first adopted in 1992.

The city also plans to prepare a citywide historic context statement as well as future updates to its citywide historic resource survey.