Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. 18 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn is a Victorian style pair of buildings at Baldwin Lake, on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, located in Arcadia and the San Gabriel Valley of southern California.”
Wikipedia article Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, 91007
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. building
Census division. Upper San Gabriel Valley
Architectural style. Queen Anne style
National Register reference number. 80000804 - 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 Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn, surveyed 1995

Topographic sheet covering Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

336 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 336 fires within 5 miles of Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,419 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 41 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	174
Arson/incendiarism	41
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Smoking	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Recreation and ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
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
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
5 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
30 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Angeles National Forest	WILDERNESS
3 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Queen Anne Cottage and Coach Barn: 27 past producers, 5 producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Clay, Silver. 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
Century Sand and Gravel	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Simmons Brick Co.-Pasadena Plant	Clay	Past Producer
Sunburst Pit	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Winter Creek	Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite
Winter Creek	Copper, Gold, Molybdenum, Silver	Past Producer
Winter Creek Group	Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Winter Group	Copper, Silver, Gold, Molybdenum	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite
Arrow Rock Co Duarte Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Arrow Sand & Gravel, Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Blue Diamond - Peck Rd Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arcadia, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 3 flash flood, 1 wildfire. The reports record 1 injury. 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
December 1999	Wildfire	Arcadia	1 hurt	no account filed
March 2024	Flash Flood	Arcadia	-	Strong thunderstorms generated heavy rainfall in the Monrovia area. This heavy rain generated flash flooding. Several business on Huntington Drive between Santa Anita Avenue and 2nd Avenue reported significant flooding.
February 2000	Flash Flood	Arcadia	-	no account filed
February 2000	Flash Flood	Arcadia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

18 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 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
Stuart Company Plant and Office Building	1.7 miles	1998
Episcopal Church of the Ascension	1.7 miles	1977
John Carlton Pegler House	1.7 miles	1988
Southern California Sanitarium Historic District	2.2 miles	2013
Michael White Adobe	2.8 miles	2014
Aztec Hotel	2.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000804 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.