Hermitage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2121 Monte Vista St., Pasadena, 91107
When was it listed? April 2001
Category. building
Census division. Pasadena
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 01000328 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 101 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Hermitage, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Hermitage, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Hermitage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,575 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 33 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	106
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Arson/incendiarism	33
Smoking	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Fireworks	6
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
7 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	CHANEY
5 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	SUNSHINE
4 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	ELLIOT
30 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Angeles National Forest	CHANEY
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Angeles National Forest	LOWE
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hermitage: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Simmons Brick Co.-Pasadena Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Devil S Gate	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Devils Canyon Dam	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
La Canada Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Osborn Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Osborn Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pasadena Aggregates Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pasadena, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2024	Flash Flood	Pasadena	-	California Highway Patrol reported flash flooding of Highway 210 at the Lake Avenue onramp. Officers reported 6 to 12 inches of standing water on the onramp.
October 2005	Hail	Pasadena	-	A severe thunderstorm produced large hail in the valleys of Los Angeles county. Near Pasadena, one and one quarter inch diameter hail was reported by a weather spotter.
February 2004	Lightning	South Pasadena	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

16 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1900 USGS Pasadena quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1928 USGS Altadena quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Mt. Wilson quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Mt. Wilson quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Mount Wilson quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Longfellow-Hastings House	0.8 miles	1982
House at 1487 Loma Vista Street	0.9 miles	2004
Hillmont	1.0 miles	2011
Bonnie Court	1.0 miles	1994
Court at 275 North Chester Avenue	1.1 miles	1994
Court at 638-650 North Mar Vista Avenue	1.1 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000328 in Record Group 79.
Los Angeles County	All 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.