The homes featured here were part of our Home Tour in 2003. Click on any photo to view it larger
The Gilmore House
1247 Garfield Avenue
Architect & Builder: Roehrig and Locke, 1891
This excellent example of a Neoclassical style house was built for Quincy Adams Gilmore, a prominent Pasadena citizen and businessman. He lived here until his death in 1900. His heirs sold the home in 1906 to Robert Burr, a building contractor who built 1110 and 1120 N Garfield Ave. This twelve room home still celebrates nearly all of i’s original features inside and out. A barn and small orchard occupied the rear of the property. The barn burned down in the mid 1980’s. The rear was later subdivided in the ‘90’s and two historic homes were moved on to the lot.
Architect Marston also designed Mr. Gerlach's shop at 466 E. Colorado in 1922, for the sale of upscale oriental art goods.

Roehrig and Locke designed the Greene Hotel, Gally house, Prospect Historic District, Pasadena Presbyterian Church and over twenty notable homes in Pasadena.


The entry walkway passes between rows of rose bushes, perhaps the reason this home was previously known as "The Crown Rose."
The interiors have wonderfully elaborate woodwork.

A graceful white picket fence
encloses the front yard.
1288 N. Garfield Avenue

The wide front porch is deeply shaded in the afternoons.
1080 N. Marengo Avenue
The front of the house features the wide front porch of the classic craftsman bungalow.

A beautiful melding of natural materials -- stone, wood, and plants.

Classic Craftsman detailing of a high order.

The sill beams have this wonderful intersecting detail.

1290 N. Marengo Avenue
Architect: Glen Elwood Smith -- Builder C.E. Brown, 1920
Glen Elwood Smith was a noted Pasadena architect known for his design of residences for prominent citizens.
This Spanish Colonial Revival Bungalow was built at a cost of $5000. for the original owner George B. Bates. A bedroom was added to the house in 1974, which was created by enclosing the inner patio of the U-shaped residence. Prior owners removed the red tile roof. Fortunately they left most of the tiles in the back yard. Neighbors encouraged the realtor to leave the tiles for the new buyers. The new owners plan on restoring the roof back to the red tiles as it originally was to reclaim one of it’s strongest features.
1090 N. Marengo Avenue
The front of the home features stone pillars and elaborate wood detailing.

Beautiful woodwork at the front door.

The homeowner is a builder of custom fences, whose unique sense of style fits boldly into the Craftsman aesthetic.

Lamp detail. No outdoor floodlights here!
1197 N. Garfield Avenue
1212 N. Marengo Avenue
Sidewalk Views
This photo is from the sidewalk, peeping over the fence at the back of the Gilmore House, which is on our home tour this year for interior and exterior viewing. Our neighborhood is blessed with an abundance of beautiful flowers at this time of year (August).

This highly unusual and remarkably beautiful old house is across the street from our two side-by-side Craftsman Bungalows on North Marengo Avenue. Hopefully it will be a future Home Tour House!

This nice old Craftsman Bungalow is across the street from our rest stop. It is currently a group home.

Beautiful planting -- why we love Southern California!
A lush paradise!

Wonderful river rock work graces our old neighborhood.
Photos by Michael O'Brien

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