SOUTH GRAND WALKING TOUR
The Historic Vista del Arroyo Hotel at Dusk. ©Karol Franks
SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R Welcome to the Pasadena Heritage South Grand Avenue Walking Tour. This tour was developed as part of our 2020 Virtual Celebration of the Colorado Street Bridge.
History of the Area The South Grand Avenue neighborhood is within the earliest settled portion of what became Pasadena. In December of 1873, a group of 27 individuals, mostly from Indiana, purchased land at the edge of the Arroyo Seco for the purpose of establishing an agricultural community. The group organized under the corporate name “San Gabriel Orange Grove Association.” This land would be divided into 100 lots of 15 acres each. Association “shareholders” were able to choose as many lots as their number of shares allowed. The extents of the original settlement were bounded by the Arroyo Seco stream bed on the west, Fair Oaks Avenue on the east, the Mission Hills on the south, and approximately one mile north of Colorado. In January of 1874, shareholders met near the intersection of North Grand and Arroyo Terrace and selected their lots. Many owners immediately moved to the area and began developing their properties into working farms. All of the houses on this tour were developed on subdivided land initially allocated to four people: Daniel Berry, his brother-in-law Dr. Elliott, Jabez Banbury, and N. R. Gibson. Daniel Berry was as an agent for a group in Indianapolis called the “California Colony of Indiana.” Berry arrived in California in 1873 to locate lands suitable for colonization. It was through Daniel Berry’s efforts that the initial acquisition of what became Pasadena was achieved. By the end of 1874, the population of the area grew, which brought increased property values, and began a shift away from an agriculturally based community to the beginning of an urban community. As Pasadena gained a national reputation, agriculture continued to thrive in the area; however, it moved east. The original settlement farms along Orange Grove Avenue became more and more subdivided as more streets were paved. South Grand Avenue was opened in 1885. The majority of the houses on this tour date from the early 1890s to the late 1920s. A number of the houses have been demolished or altered significantly. Works by well-known architects can be found on this street including Greene and Greene, Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, J. J. Blick, Sylvanus Marston, G. Lawrence Stimson, and Reginald Johnson.
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Begin on the sidewalk in front of 478 South Grand Avenue.
478 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1887 / Mrs. Sarah S. Coates Style: Shingle The vertical two-story home is clad in shingles. The home displays large arches, doublehung windows, steep hip shingle roofs, triple dormers, and an arroyo stone retaining wall with engaged columns. This property underwent extensive alteration and expansion in 1924 under the design direction of Roland Coate. Subsequent and present owners have continued to expand the home, however the exterior shingle styling has been maintained over time. Continue walking north.
470 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1893 / Seymour and Kate Locke Architect / Designer: Preston & Locke Contractor / Builder: John Rebman Constructed in 1893, this is one of four homes on South Grand Avenue designed by Seymour Locke. The exterior of this Victorian house is stucco, which seems to have been the original material. However, the evidence is ambiguous on whether the exterior was originally stucco or wood. Note the diamond-paned double hung windows, Arroyo stone wall, tapered Arroyo stone columns, and “L� shaped veranda.
440 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1903 / Lillian Shaw Architect / Designer: William B. Edwards Contractor / Builder Adelbert S. Glidden Style: Queen Anne / Craftsman / Colonial Revival Designed in 1903 by William B. Edwards, this house has elements of the Queen Anne, Craftsman, and Colonial Revival styles. It was originally on the southwest corner of Del Mar and Oakland and was moved to this location. Please note the shingled exterior, gable roof accented by bell cast curves, the shaped rafters and prominent brackets.
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SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R Cross to the west side of the street at the corner of South Grand Avenue and Lockehaven Street.
415 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1929 / Sidney R. Francis Architect / Designer: Reginald D. Johnson Contractor / Builder: Superior Concrete Construction Co. Style: Georgian Revival (California Colonial Revival) Constructed in 1929 for Sidney R. Francis, this formal Colonial Revival by the noted architect Reginald D. Johnson has wonderful stone detail and fine pilasters. The light brick and stone contrasts with the dark, formal entrance door. Continue walking north to 395 South Grand Avenue.
395 South Grand Avenue “Cobbleoak� Date / Owner: 1893 / Frank C. Bolt Architect / Designer: Preston & Locke Contractor / Builder: Davis & Smith Style: Colonial / Shingle
This house is asymmetrical and has multiple gables, oval attic vents, diamond window panes, a shingle upper cladding with a significant flair at the bottom, and an arroyo stone veneer on the first floor. Also displayed are double hung windows, a Victorian era muntin design, and an Arroyo stone chimney. Continue walking north to cross Arbor.
375 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1959 Architect / Designer: Lawrence Test Style: Contemporary Ranch This house displays an inset porch, shutters extending below the windows, and a hipped roof. It is one of just a few mid-Twentieth-Century houses on this street.
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325 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1895 / Burt Orlando Bruce Architect/Designer: Locke & Fitzhugh Contractor / Builder: Jesse J. Allen Style: Shingle This house has a gambrel roof. The second story tower features a finial and curved glass. Shingles cover the second story while the first story appears to be wood with Arroyo stone accents. Continue walking north.
293 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1924 / William R. Staats Architect / Designer: Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury Style: French Manor This French Manor style house was constructed in 1924 for William R. Staats. Considered by many to be a masterpiece, this manor is three stories tall with a steep hip roof. The off-center entry vestibule is protected by a wrought-iron grille.
257 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1917 / Tod Ford, Jr. Architect / Designer: Reginald D. Johnson Contractor / Builder: Peter Hall Style: Italianate / Mediterranean Peter Hall and his brother John Hall worked with Greene & Greene, Myron Hunt, and other prominent architects of the time. Prior to the construction of this house, Tod Ford’s father.commissioned Greene & Greene to enlarge and design exterior alterations to a small outbuilding in 1905. Ultimately, Tod Jr. decided to demolish the structure in 1917 and hired Reginald Johnson to design the current home.
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SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R 215 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1907 / Freeman A. Ford Architect / Designer: Greene & Greene Contractor / Builder: Peter Hall Style: Craftsman This Craftsman, with its intimate courtyard with stucco walls and a clay tile roof, is difficult to see from the street. It was designed by Greene & Greene and built by Peter Hall in 1907, just prior to the construction of the Gamble House. Originally the roof was Malthoid like the Gamble house.
195 South Grand Avenue
Date: 1905 Owner: Louise and Henry M. Robinson Architect / Designer: Greene & Greene Contractor / Builder: Peter Hall Style: Craftsman This three-story house is one of the Greene brothers’ major works. It has a composition sheet roof with integrated gutters and a stucco and half-timber exterior. The Robinson House became the “test case” for Pasadena’s Greene & Greene ordinance, designed to protect the specially designed furnishings and fixtures of these exceptional houses. When the Robinson House heirs prepared to sell this house, they began to remove fixtures and custom furnishings. Called into action by Pasadena Heritage, the City was able to stop the removal of all attached fixtures, and the ordinance language was further strengthened and clarified to prevent such activity in the future.
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171 South Grand Avenue The Shakespeare Club of Pasadena
Date / Owner: 1928 / Josephine D. Everett Architect / Designer: Marston & Maybury Style: Italianate / Mediterranean Revival Although this currently houses the Shakespeare Club of Pasadena, 171 South Grand Avenue was originally the winter home of Josephine D. Everett. Designed in 1928 by Sylvanus B. Marston and Edgar Maybury, it has both Italianate and Mediterranean Revival influences. It is designated as a City of Pasadena landmark.
125 South Grand Avenue The Vista del Arroyo Situated on the east rim of the Arroyo Seco, the Vista del Arroyo was originally one of Pasadena’s major tourist hotels. The hotel was designed with the mild climate of Pasadena in mind, and included grand gardens, a swimming pool, and tennis courts. The current Spanish Colonial style buildings were constructed between 1920 and 1930 and designed by Sylvanus Marston and Garrett Van Pelt, as well as George H. Wiemeyer, replacing an earlier version of the hotel from 1882. It now houses the Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals, but has had many uses including as an Army hospital during and after the Second World War. It began as Emma C. Bangs Boarding House, one of the first tuberculosis centers in the West. The four adjacent “bungalows” currently house several nonprofits including the Western Justice Center. The main tower building was nicely rehabilitated and repurposed as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and four of the largest bungalows were turned over to the City of Pasadena and are now used by the Western Justice Center. Pasadena Heritage fought hard to see the site preserved and save the bungalows, however several were demolished. The last remaining eight bungalows were sold and became part of the housing complex to the north and west of the courthouse, which also includes new construction on the hillside and below the Bridge.
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SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R 55 South Grand Avenue Maxwell House / Western Justice Center Date / Owner: 1929 George H. Maxwell Architect / Designer: Marston & Maybury Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
In 1929 George H. Maxwell, an East Coast litigator and philanthropist, commissioned the architects Marston & Maybury to build a home that featured Mediterranean and Italian styles, such as stucco walls, tile roofing, ornamental detailing and Palladian entranceway. The property was abandoned in 1940 after the Great Depression and during the early uears of WWII. The US government occupied the estate in 1943 as part of the army hospital. The General Services Administration (GSA) took over the site in 1949. In later years, the building was underutilized and was eventually abandoned until the1970s. In 1987 Dorothy W. Nelson, the current U.S Court of Appeals judge for the ninth Circuit, founded the Western Justice Center to create educational programs for students, teachers and community members. Continue walking north into the cul-de-sac and make a left to view the Colorado Street Bridge.
Colorado Street Bridge
Date / Owner: 1912-1913 Engineers: Waddell and Herrington Built in 1912-1913, this famous bridge was designed by engineer John Alexander Low Waddell. It was the tallest concrete bridge of its day and is said to have been the first curvilinear bridge ever built. Contractor John Drake Mercereau suggested curving the structure across the Arroyo to take advantage of the firmest footing for each of the bridge’s eleven grand arches. In 1975, the Colorado Street Bridge became a Civil Engineering Landmark and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981 (nominated by Pasadena Heritage). Towering 150 feet over the Arroyo below, it is a true marvel of design and engineering! The bridge has been threatened numerous times in its long history. With only two lanes of traffic and heavy use, the bridge was deemed inadequate in the early 1930s. In 1935, it was to be demolished to make way for an early freeway design that was never completed. A public outcry saved the bridge in 1951 when plans for the Foothill Freeway threatened the landmark.
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Colorado Street Bridge (continued) Pasadena Heritage began its involvement with the bridge in 1979, creating the Bridge Party, initially to bring awareness to its need for restoration. In 1989, after the Loma Prieta earthquake, the bridge was closed to traffic, and Pasadena Heritage fought to save and restore this iconic structure. The bridge underwent extensive rehabilitation and seismic strengthening and on December 13, 1993, 90 years after its initial dedication, the Colorado Street Bridge was reopened. The Bridge Party, which began as a need to highlight the need for bridge repairs, continues as a celebration of its rehabilitation and preservation hosted by Pasadena Heritage every other year!
Return to the cul-de-sac and on the east side of the street and visit Defender’s Park Circulate the perimeter of the park. Examine the statues and plaques commemorating the fallen warriors.
Defenders Park This small, neighborhood park is 1.8 acres in size, and is home to several monuments including the Founder’s Monument, or Pioneer Plaque Rock, a Granite Monument of unknown origin, the Heliport Plaque, and the Pasadena Pioneers Bridge plaque. The Goodhue Flagpole, or Pasadena Memorial Flagpole, was originally located in the center of the nearby intersection of Colorado Street and Orange Grove Avenue but later moved and currently positioned at the northeast “corner” of the intersection for traffic safety reasons, diagonally opposite the Park.
Granite Monument This monument reads “Defenders Parkway Dedicated by Mothers of the Defenders of the Flag Soldiers Sailors Marines Who So Gallantly Responded to our Country’s Call 1776 1861 1898 1917.”
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SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R Founder’s Monument The plaque contains the names of the 27 settler colonists of Pasadena. This monument was designed by Walter C. Beckwith and dedicated in 1954 and later rededicated in 1986 after the original plaque was stolen. The sandstone wall and bench are recycled from the original stone used to construct the 1890 Pasadena Public Library, which was demilished. The wall and bench were both repaired in 2003 using stone from Hillmont house. Return to Grand Avenue and stay on the East side of the street and walk south.
208 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: before 1902/1910 Style: Colonial Revival Originally constructed before 1902, this home was redesigned by Louis Du Puget Millar for T. J. Orbison in 1910. A thorough update by David Serrurier occurred in 1996. The house displays an arched entry portico, horizontal siding and paired columns (one square, one round) with small Corinthian capitals.
222 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1911 / Horace A. Towne Architect / Designer: Joseph J. Blick Contractor / Builder: Edward Siskron Style: Colonial Revival This house has a full-width wooden porch, enclosed soffits, Tuscan columns, symmetrical windows flanking the front door, a port-hole window and double hung sash.
230 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1909 / Isaac R. Morris Architect / Designer: Sylvanus B. Marston Contractor / Builder: Will A. Taylor Style: Craftsman This symmetrical, shingle-and-stucco house has an open pergola, inet front porch, clipped gable (jerkinhead) roof and porte cochere. 10
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280 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1905 / Charles F. Felin Architect / Designer: Joseph J. Blick Contractor / Builder: Charles F. Felin Style: Craftsman This three-story early Craftsman has mediumpitched gables, horizontal siding, and a beautiful octagonal bay window spanning the second and third stories. Note the Tudor touches including the half-timbering above the front porch and the grand oak entry door with flanking windows.
294 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1904 / Harry D. Lombard Contractor / Builder: Fred L. Somers Style: Gothic Revival This is one of five houses built near Grand and Arbor in 1904 for the Los Angeles investor Harry Lombard. A dominant feature of this home is the very steeply-pitched roof. The first story has horizontal wood siding while the second story is shingled. The windows vary from tripartite windows to casement and double hung windows.
350 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1901 / George B. Post Architect / Designer: Joseph J. Blick Contractor / Builder: Alonzo B. Tirrill Style: Tudor / Craftsman This house displays a shallow-arch entry portico, double-hung and casement windows, brick veneer on the first story and half timbering on second story. Extensive additions and alterations were completed in 1908 by the architect Edward M. Spining, probably accounting for the Craftsman-era feel of the building.
356 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1964 Architect / Designer: John C. Egan Style: “Modern� Craftsman The property was originally part of 350 South Grand Avenue. The house features an extremely shallow roof pitch, exposed rafters, clerestory windows, a truncated pyramidal chimney and post-and-beam construction. South Grand Walking Tour
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SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R 360 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1903 / George B. Post Architect / Designer: Joseph J. Blick Contractor / Builder: Alonzo B. Tirrill Style: Craftsman / Shingle This was the second home designed by J. J. Blick for George Post on South Grand. It is believed it was mostly used as a rental. One winter tenant was Tracey Drake, President of the Drake Hotel Co., one of the largest hotels in Chicago. This three story home is shingled, has casement windows, a pentagonal bay and intersecting gable roofs.
390 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1910 / George W. Stimson Architect / Designer: G. Lawrence Stimson Co. Contractor / Builder: G. Lawrence Stimson Co. Style: Craftsman 390 South Grand Avenue is one of the best examples of “Pasadena Craftsman” style on this tour. The shingled house includes many Greene & Greene inspired elements, including exposed rafter tails, prominent knee braces, strongly extended head casings, and keyed scarf joints. Also note how the roof surface sweeps subtly upward at the gable ends.
410 South Grand Avenue
Date / Owner: 1905 / Mary L. Givens Architect / Designer: Hunt & Grey Contractor / Builder: John Erickson Style: Craftsman This early Craftsman style house displays exposed beams, knee braces, shake-covered walls, and an inset balcony. Mary Givens was the proprietor of La Solana Inn, a well-known boarding house of Pasadena’s resort era. The main inn buildings were across the street at the southeast corner of Grand and Lockehaven.
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Architects and Contractors Joseph James Blick: 1867-1947. Blick was born in Iowa and came to Pasadena with his parents in 1887. He worked with his contractor father and was associated for six years in the early 1890s with T. William Parkes, a popular Pasadena architect. In 1896 he formed a partnership in Los Angeles with architect Lester S. Moore. Blick left the partnership in 1900 and opened his own Pasadena office. Considered a master in many styles (from Shingle to Moderne), he is known for designing elegant homes for the wealthy in Pasadena, particularly along South Orange Grove Boulevard. Unfortunately, many of his structures were destroyed because of redevelopment and the 210 freeway. Popular works in Pasadena include: Scottish Rite Cathedral (1922), Star-News building (1924), and the first house in the Oak Knoll District (Lukenheimer 1906). Blick lived (and died) at 275 Madeline (just west of Pasadena Ave., next to Westridge School). William Bryant Edwards: 1875-1948. Edwards was a native of Lynn, Massachusetts. His father was a contractor from England who brought his family to Pasadena in the 1880s. Edwards began his architectural firm in Pasadena in 1899. In 1918 he gave up his practice and entered the Pasadena assessor’s office, staying until his retirement in the 1930s. John Erickson: 1864-1947. A native of Sweden, Erickson came to the USA in the late 1880s and was a contractor in Pasadena circa 1897. He worked with many prominent local architects including Greene & Greene (he built Charles Greene’s own house), Myron Hunt, J. J. Blick, and Charles Buchanan. Charles Sumner Greene 1868-1957, and Henry Mather Greene 1870-1954: Born in Ohio, the brothers attended the first manual arts training school in the USA and graduated from MIT with two-year degrees in architecture. They moved to Pasadena (where their parents resided) in 1893, and opened an architectural office in January 1894. They designed mostly residences and had a relatively low number of structures (138 total, compared to over 1000 by Frank Lloyd Wright and Sylvanus Marston). Charles moved to Carmel 1915 and the firm was formally dissolved in 1922. They were awarded a Special Citation by the American Institute of Architects in 1952, which reads, in part: “You have helped shape our distinctively national architecture, and in giving tangible form to the ideals of our people, your names will be forever remembered among the great creative Americans.” Elmer Grey: 1871-1963. Grey was born in Chicago and had an architectural practice in Milwaukee before coming to Southern California. He partnered with Myron Hunt from 1904 to 1910. Notable works include: Henry Huntington’s San Marino mansion, the initial Caltech master plan (including Throop Hall), the Beverly Hills Hotel, and the Pasadena Playhouse (State Theatre of California). He was also a noted landscape painter. Peter Hall: 1867-1939. Hall was a Swedish-born wood worker and together with his brother John, worked with Greene & Greene, Myron Hunt, Reginald Johnson, and other prominent architects. He operated a workshop on South Raymond (north of Glenarm) where Greene & Greene furniture was assembled for the Gamble house, Robinson house, and other houses were constructed.
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SOUTH GRAND WA L K I N G T O U R Architects and Contractors
Myron Hubbard Hunt: 1868-1952. Hunt trained at MIT (BS in 1893). Initially he
worked in Chicago in the same offices as Frank Lloyd Wright. He moved to Pasadena 1903 because of his wife’s health and partnered with Elmer Grey between the years of 1904-1910. He became a Fellow of the AIA in 1908. Hunt was prolific in both residential and commercial architecture, with many structures awarded “landmark” status. Some of is notable works include: the Rose Bowl, Pasadena’s Central Library, Henry Huntington’s mansion and library, the initial Caltech master plan, Occidental College, conversion of the Hotel Wentworth into the Huntington Hotel, theFlintridge Hotel (now the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy), a wing at the Mission Inn, and the Ambassador Hotel.
Reginald Davis Johnson: 1882-1952. Johnson was born in Westchester, New York and came to Pasadena in the late 1890s with his parents. His father was the first Episcopal Bishop of the Los Angeles Diocese. Reginald attended Williams College (1903) and MIT (1910), and worked for Hunt & Grey and Robert Farquhar. He opened his own office in Pasadena in 1912. Highly regarded in his profession, Johnson was awarded a gold medal by the AIA in 1921. He partnered as Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate from 1922-1925. In 1936 he retired from his residential practice and devoted his time to housing projects in Southern California. Seymour Elam Locke: 1857-1919. Seymour Locke’s parents were early pioneers of Pasadena (listed in the 1874 roster). Lockehaven Street, named after his family, was the driveway to their home. When Seymour’s mother died (1890) he began to subdivide the family land. Seymour apprenticed under Frederick Roehrig during design and construction of the Green Hotel Annex in 1889 and became Roehrig’s partner in 1892. He formed the Los Angeles firm of Preston & Locke (1892-1894), was the partner of Thornton Fitzhugh in 1895, and then partnered with William A. O. Munsell (1897-1901). He left Pasadena in 1904 following a family scandal (he married his wife’s sister in 1910), only returning to Pasadena to visit. Seymour’s sister, Millie, was the first bride in Pasadena (1875), and her first child Harvey Watts was the first male born in Pasadena (1876). Sylvanus Boardman Marston: 1883-1946. Marston, known as “Van” to his friends, was born in Oakland, California, and moved to Pasadena as an infant. He attended public schools in Pasadena, Pomona College, and graduated from Cornell University in 1907. He started his architectural practice in Pasadena in 1908. Adept in many styles, he was talented and popular, and he is credited with in excess of 1000 structures. He was also a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He is credited with designing the first bungalow court, St. Francis, located where Target now stands on Colorado Boulevard at Oak Knoll Avenue. Other notable structures include: Grace Nicholson’s Treasure House (Pacific Asia Museum), William Staats’ home, the William Wilson building, Arthur Garford’s side by side homes, Westminster Presbyterian Church, American Legion Hall, and much of the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel. 14
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Architects and Contractors Edgar Wood Maybury: 1889-1969. Maybury worked for Marston 1915-1917, leaving to work for Reginald Johnson. Maybury rejoined Marston’s architectural firm in 1921 and became a partner in 1923, forming Marston, Van Pelt and Maybury.
Louis Du Puget Millar: 1877-1944. The son of a noted Dublin architect, Louis Millar
was born in Ireland and trained in engineering at Trinity College. He immigrated to the USA in 1907, registered as an architect in 1908, and moved to Pasadena in 1910. Considered a gifted designer, he worked mostly alone but was associated briefly with George A. Clark. Pasadena builders Grable & Austin were notable clients. His work included residential and commercial structures. George Lawrence Stimson: 1882-1939. Stimson was born in Ohio and was brought to Pasadena by his parents in 1885. He attended Pasadena High School and Throop Institute. Mostly self-trained in design, he never received a state license as an architect, and joined his father’s building and real estate business in 1905. He was known for his ability to design in different styles, but is particularly noted for his Craftsman designs, most of which showed a strong influence of Greene & Greene. He is best known for designing the Wrigley Mansion, home to the Tournament of Roses, on Millionaires Row (South Orange Grove Boulevard). Jasper Newton Preston: 1832-1922. Preston was born in New York and began his architectural career in Michigan in the 1870s. He moved to Texas in 1875, gaining considerable notice there. He came to Los Angeles in 1886, working with many different partners including his son Samuel (who passed in 1889), Seymour Locke, Norman Marsh, and Ira Seehorn. Much older than most of the architects on this tour, he retired in 1907. Will Allen Taylor: 1870-1939. Taylor was a prolific and highly-regarded builder. He worked with many noted architects including Greene & Greene, Myron Hunt, Reginald Johnson, and Sylvanus Marston. He was the contractor for the Rose Bowl in 1922.
Lawrence Cook Test: 1891-1981. Test was a native of Pasadena and attended Pasadena High School before going to the University of Pennsylvania. He returned home and worked for Reginald Johnson before opening his own architectural firm in Pasadena in 1928. He was known for being adept in many styles. Alonzo Bert Tirrill: 1865-1948. Tirrill was born in Canada and raised in New Hampshire. He began working as a building contractor in Pasadena in 1897. His work included houses by such notables as Frederick Roehrig, Myron Hunt, and J. J. Blick. He lived in Pasadena and Altadena for 50 years and died in 1948. Garrett Beekman Van Pelt, Jr.: 1879-1972. Noted as a talented designer, Van Pelt was born in Milwaukee. His family often spent winters in Pasadena, and around 1910 he began working for local architects such as Sylvanus Marston and Leonard Cooke. In 1914 he became Marston’s partner, continuing after Edgar Maybury was added in 1923. Van Pelt left the firm in 1927 to set up an independent practice. He moved to Santa Barbara in the 1950s and continued designing into the 1960s.
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