Michael White Adobe

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 17 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 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. White, Michael, Adobe - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2701 Huntington Dr., San Marino, 91108
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. building
Census division. Pasadena
National Register reference number. 14000797 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Michael White Adobe, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Michael White Adobe, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

299 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 299 fires within 5 miles of Michael White Adobe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,922 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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	167
Arson/incendiarism	36
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Smoking	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	3
Natural	1

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
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
4 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
4 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	ELLIOT
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
25 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Michael White Adobe: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Osborn Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Osborn Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Simmons Brick Co.-Pasadena Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Torrance Brick Co.-Monterey Park 2	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

17 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 Sierra Madre quadrangle1:24000
1933 USGS Sierra Madre quadrangle1:24000
1941 USGS Sierra Madre quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS El Monte quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS El Monte quadrangle1:24000 - 8 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

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
House at 1050 S. Madison Ave.	0.5 miles	1998
Edwin Hubble House	1.3 miles	1976
Southern California Sanitarium Historic District	1.3 miles	2013
Hale Solar Laboratory	1.4 miles	1986
Bonnie Court	1.6 miles	1994
Longfellow-Hastings House	1.6 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000797 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.