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San Pasqual Street Pasadena Avenue OLD PASADENA BUNGALOW Library Oakland 7 9 ■ Walnut Street 285 Hill Avenue Start Allen Avenue Euclid Avenue ■ 1.6 MILES ■ 60-MINUTE WALK ■ 20-MINUTE BIKE RIDE HEAVEN Homet Road Berkeley Avenue Madison Avenue Marengo Avenue El Molino Avenue 464 Oak Knoll Avenue Los Robles Avenue Greenwood Avenue ■ PARK IN PARKING STRUCTURE AT NORTHEAST CORNER OF FAIR OAKS AND GREEN San Marino Avenue Ford Place ■ 1.8 MILES ■ 40-MINUTE WALK 200 Ramona Street 175 207 Gold Line 451 160 131 This tour includes an overview of Pasadena’s oldest commercial area. One ■ 10-MINUTE BIKE RIDE EXPLORE PASADENA ARCHITECTURE 460 California Boulevard 589-549 588-548 City 132 145 ■ Holly Street 9575 favorite ensemble is the old Santa Fe station, Central Park and the former PARK ON MICHIGAN, Hall WALK | BIKE | DRIVE Plaza Las Green Hotel, linked by a shared past. During the city’s days as a resort, Eastern JUST NORTH OF ORANGE GROVE 1938 1954 100 Fuentes 615 Union Street 78 80 [ visitors could alight from the train, walk up the street to the Green Hotel, and Pacific Asia This neighborhood, declared a Start ■ 10 incredible architectural tours for you to discover within Museum 46 after checking in, enjoy a stroll in the park (in the middle of winter, no less!). 30 Garfield Avenue landmark district in 1989, reveals the 611 16 historical districts in our 23 square miles! 665 The peculiar bridge that now extends from Castle Green once spanned the Landor Lane Colorado Boulevard 225 281 477 525 585 595 695 quality and richness of conventional [ street to the older part of the hotel. Hotel visitors were also close to all the 234 500 520 600 696 houses built during the Craftsman Lombardy Road 1779 1861 1945 2035 2075 Paseo Colorado Pasadena 39 major stores and services clustered around the junction of Colorado and Fair Playhouse period (1900 to 1920). Unlike those on 1750 Green Street 597 609 655 Oaks. Old Pasadena, once down-at-heel, is again one of the great economic other tours, most of these houses were 300 70 and social centers of Pasadena life. Restoration and revitalization began in the Arroyo Parkway built by contractors or their original late 1970s, and in 1983 Old Pasadena became a National Register Historic 8 MADISON California Boulevard 627 owners without architects. Designs District. As you walk along the streets, look above the display windows at 624 HEIGHTS were often adapted from popular 10 LOMBARDY ROAD the varieties of style and ornamentation. (All the storefronts date from 1928 Madison Avenue El Molino Avenue CIVIC CENTER AND “bungalow books,” which discussed ■ 1.2 MILES ■ 30-MINUTE WALK ■ 7-MINUTE BIKE RIDE 6 when Colorado was widened, but many of the buildings behind them were ■ 1.8 MILES such things as built-in buffets, boulder 654 ■ PARK ON LANDOR, JUST SOUTH OF CALIFORNIA PLAYHOUSE DISTRICT constructed before 1900). If you can tear yourself away from window shopping ■ 45-MINUTE WALK fireplaces and the scent of jasmine and people watching, look out for interesting alleys to explore (most with ■ 10-MINUTE BIKE RIDE Miles Street 675 These lush and picturesque estates sprouted from orange groves in the 1920s. ■ 2 MILES ■ 60-MINUTE WALK ■ 18-MINUTE BIKE RIDE through French doors. For $5 to $10 bronze plaques to explain their history), fading 19th century signs on the sides ■ PARK ON ALPINE, The south side of Lombardy was once part of Henry Huntington’s ranch. ■ PARK ON GARFIELD, JUST NORTH OF WALNUT (AT WEST SIDE OF LIBRARY) 685 one could order minimal plans and of buildings, and those unique, yet strictly legal, diagonal crosswalks! JUST WEST OF EL MOLINO a clever carpenter would improvise Returning from European study, the aspiring gentlemen architects of the time 701 [ Pasadena’s civic center was planned in the early 1920s. These spacious and 706 created fanciful reconstructions of their half-remembered visions of rural Spain Castle Green Apartments, 1898; 1903 NEARBY: A forerunner of Southern 707 the details. Since many homes were richly detailed buildings, broad boulevards and park-like settings are firmly Washington Boulevard 99 South Raymond Avenue Royal Laundry Building, California development built for under $3,000, they were and Italy. Lombardy Road is a menu of their sources—rich and tasty fare! The 1194 rooted by a civic axis. In this scheme, the Library commands the north end, 775 Architect: Frederick L. Roehrig 1927; 1935 trends, this fine residential affordable for most residents. Michigan architects felt these images were appropriate to Southern California because of balanced by the Civic Auditorium at the south, with City Hall at the center. Filmore Street its similar climate and landscape. Roland Coate, in particular, was constantly 443 South Raymond Avenue neighborhood was built over and Mar Vista Avenues contain some 1328 Walking beneath City Hall’s dome—visible for miles—we expect a rotunda, Former Santa Fe striving to come up with something that was quintessentially Californian—a Architect: Gordon B. Kaufmann orange groves and farmland of the tastiest bungalows, but this 1291 but instead are surprised to discover a fountain courtyard with meticulously Railway Station, 1935 beginning in 1906. Most of neighborhood is much larger than combination of Mediterranean and Colonial styles. His house at 1750 Lombardy 222 South Raymond Avenue St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church, groomed flower beds and shaded lawns. The courtyard walk continues across 1276 1282 1302 is one attempt at this. 1779 Lombardy recalls an Andalusian farmhouse. The 1253 1261 1311 these hefty well-built family the tour. You will see in these houses Claremont St. 1260 Euclid, past All Saints Church and through the pleasant cityscape that is Plaza Architect: H. C. Gilman 1927 885 805 houses date from that time charming touches, such as an entry that sumptuous residence at 2035 Lombardy by Wallace Neff would shame the most Las Fuentes. Your route includes Pasadena’s downtown of the 1920s, now 311 North Raymond Avenue Chamber of Commerce Building, 1906 until about 1925. The best- is part of a chimney, brick-and-boulder romantic Hollywood set. And by this same architect, we find a group of very revived with the addition of Paseo Colorado and many residential buildings. Architect: Ross Montgomery Los Robles Avenue Oakland Avenue livable houses on Berkeley Avenue, each with a balcony or enclosed garden. 117 East Colorado Boulevard known local architects are 932 920 walls, and vine-covered pergolas. [ Be sure to note the amazing use of terra cotta on the Pacific Asia Museum 1165 1205 Architects: Parkinson & Bergstrom Moreton Bay Fig Tree, represented: Charles and Bungalow Heaven experienced a surge 946 Stephens House, 1928 NEARBY: (46 N. Los Robles) and on the Warner Building (477 E. Colorado). The Alpine Street planted 1880 Henry Greene designed a of restoration activity beginning in the 1750 Lombardy Road California Institute of Technology Pasadena Playhouse (39 S. El Molino), which is now giving its name to the Former United California 1085 170 South Marengo Avenue beautifully sited one-story ■ late 1970s, so a majority of the houses Bank Building, 1929 Start Architect: Roland E. Coate (The campus was first laid out in 1910 surrounding district, is recognized as the official state theater of California. 979 bungalow, accentuated by have now been refurbished in authentic 83 East Colorado Boulevard by Myron Hunt, Elmer Grey and terraced lawns, at 979 S. historical style. If you would like a Bourne House, 1925 Central Library, 1927 Pasadena Playhouse, 1924-25 Architects: Bennett & Haskell 1076 Bertram Goodhue; tours are available) 1046 1070 1110 2035 Lombardy Road 1025 1011 El Molino and an imposing longer tour, explore Chester Avenue, 1045 1095 1165 1175 1191 285 East Walnut Street 39 South El Molino Avenue 1001 989 1201 East California Boulevard Architect: Wallace Neff Kinney-Kendall which was more recently added to the Wilson Avenue Michigan Avenue Chester Avenue Architect: Myron Hunt Architect: Elmer Grey two-story residence at 675 Glenarm Street 1050 1036 1000 980 Bell Street Huntington Library, Art Collections, Building, 1897 S. Madison; Louis Easton’s landmark district. Houses, 1925-26 City Hall, 1925-27 Pasadena Civic Auditorium, 1931 Walnut Street and Botanical Gardens 65 East Colorado Boulevard only Mission Revival design 548 to 589 Berkeley Avenue 100 North Garfield Avenue 300 East Green Street 134 Freeway NEARBY: (Gallery was originally the home of Architects: Memorial is at 885 S. Madison; Frederick Roehrig designed the fine Craftsman at Architect: Wallace Neff Architects: Bakewell & Brown Architects: Bergstrom, Bennett & Haskell Pacific Park Williams House (Hillmont), 1887 Henry Huntington, 1910) 939 995 Charles & Henry Greene 805 S. Madison with its diagonal bracing and other structural fetishes; a Mar Vista Avenue 1375 East Mountain Street Ostoff House, 1924 1151 Oxford Road All Saints Episcopal Church, 1925 Former YWCA Building, 1921 Gold Line French design by Wallace Neff can be found at 707 S. Oakland; and two Mountain Street 914 946 986 Friend Paper Co., 1965 Architect: Harry Ridgway 1779 Lombardy Road Architect: Myron Hunt Electric 132 North Euclid Avenue 78 North Marengo Avenue 129 145 Holly Street model homes for the original tract by Sylvanus Marston are at 920 and 100 West Green Street Architect: George Washington Smith Architects: Johnson, Kaufmann Architect: Julia Morgan [ 110 932 S. Madison. In its early years, Pasadena created a well thought-out Craig Adobe Architects: Smith & Williams Union Street Evelyn Place 875 & Coate street/tree plan from which Madison Heights certainly benefited. (The Hermitage), circa 1880 846 One 47 24 2121 Monte Vista Street Colorado Colorado Crowe-Crocker House, 1909 Hugus House, 1908 827 Pacific Asia Museum Boulevard 139 1 25 65 83 117 Architect: Unknown (formerly Grace Nicholson Building, 1924) 168 134 106 2 10 60 979 South El Molino Avenue 805 South Madison Avenue Architects: Charles & Henry Greene Architect: Frederick L.