Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. 16 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.
From the record
“Court of Appeals is a historic building originally constructed as a Spanish Colonial Revival style resort known as the Vista del Arroyo Hotel and Bungalows located at Pasadena in Los Angeles County, California. During World War II, it served as the McCornack General Hospital, and was thereafter in use as a general-purpose federal government building for several decades.”
Wikipedia article Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.81000157- 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.
18941995
Fires near this property
176 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Vista del Arroyo Hotel and Bungalows
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 223 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
83
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Arson/incendiarism
22
Smoking
17
Misuse of fire by a minor
11
Recreation and ceremony
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
5
Debris and open burning
4
Fireworks
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
7 September 2008
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
CHANEY
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
3 September 2001
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
TWIN
22 September 2019
Arson/incendiarism
10 acres
Angeles National Forest
LOWE
17 September 2017
Fireworks
under an acre
Angeles National Forest
ESTATE
10 September 2007
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
not named
1 September 2010
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Vista del Arroyo Hotel and Bungalows: 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.
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.
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.
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.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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.
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