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Photograph of Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District
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Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“The Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District is a residential historic district located in northwest Pasadena, California, United States. The district includes eleven contributing houses built from 1902 to 1912.”

Wikipedia article Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 16 buildingss, 7 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Park Place--Arroyo Terrace Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 368-440 Arroyo Terrace, 200-240 N. Grand Ave., 201-239 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, 91103
  • When was it listed? June 2007
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Residential Architecture of Pasadena: Influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement MPS
  • Census division. Pasadena
  • National Register reference number. 04000324 - 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 Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 273 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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/undetermined82
Equipment and vehicle use28
Arson/incendiarism23
Smoking16
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAngeles National ForestCHANEY
5 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAngeles National ForestSUNSHINE
4 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
4 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAngeles National ForestELLIOT
30 September 1995Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAngeles National ForestCHANEY
3 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAngeles National ForestTWIN
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism10 acresAngeles National ForestLOWE
20 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAngeles National ForestDAWN

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District: 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Simmons Brick Co.-Pasadena PlantClayPast Producer
Devil S GateSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Devils Canyon DamSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gordon-Garrison-RussellSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
La Canada PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Osborn CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Osborn Co.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pasadena Aggregates PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2024Flash FloodPasadena-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 2005HailPasadena-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 2004LightningSouth 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Fenyes Estate0.1 miles1985
Kenneth Newell Avery Studio0.2 miles2024
Gamble House0.2 miles1971
Clarence and Mary Mello House0.3 miles2009
Colorado Street Bridge0.3 miles1981
Vista del Arroyo Hotel and Bungalows0.4 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000324 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles CountyAll 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.