National Register of Historic Places listings in Pasadena, California

This is a List of Registered Historic Places in Pasadena. There are 119 places listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in Pasadena, California.^[1] Five of these sites are further designated as National Historic Landmarks of the United States. They are the Gamble House, the Hale Solar Laboratory, the Rose Bowl, and two sites at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (the Space Flight Operations Facility and the Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator).

Pasadena's prominence in the cultural, scientific, architectural and sporting history of Southern California is evidenced by the heavy concentration of registered historic places in a city with a population of 134,000. Although Pasadena's population is 3.5% that of its large neighbor to the south, Pasadena's total of 105 registered historic places compares favorably with the 208 registered historic places in Los Angeles.

The first sites in Pasadena to be listed on the National Register were Greene and Greene's American Craftsman masterpiece, the Gamble House (built from 1908 to 1909), the Pasadena Playhouse (built in 1924) and Frank Lloyd Wright's textile block structure, the Millard House (built in 1923). Perhaps most famous for its hosting the annual New Year's Day football game at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena was also a center of architectural innovation in the early 20th Century as Greene and Greene built their innovative Craftsman-style bungalow houses and larger-scale ultimate bungalows throughout Pasadena, including the Gamble House, Robert R. Blacker House, Dr. W. T. Bolton House and Cordelia A. Culbertson House. Other architects of note who have designed buildings in Pasadena include Myron Hunt, (Rose Bowl and Caltech) and Welton Beckett (Bullock's Pasadena).

Pasadena is also the home of many leading scientific and cultural institutions, including California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Pasadena Playhouse, and the Norton Simon Museum of Art. Several sites relate to Pasadena's long connection with astronomy and space exploration, including the Space Flight Operations Facility, the Twenty-Five-Foot Space Simulator, and Hale Solar Laboratory. Also, the Edwin Hubble House, home to famed astronomer Edwin Hubble, is located in the adjacent community of San Marino.

Two of Pasadena's historic bridges, the Colorado Street Bridge, built in 1913 and known for its distinctive Beaux Arts arches, light standards, and railings, and the La Loma Bridge, built in 1914, are also among the sites listed on the National Register.

Thirty of the listings in Pasadena are historic districts, which include multiple contributing properties. Among these historic districts is Old Town Pasadena, a thriving historic district of shops, bars and restaurants in well-preserved turn-of-the-century buildings with its center at Fair Oaks Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. Other historic districts include the Pasadena Playhouse Historic District, the Pasadena Civic Center District, the Bungalow Heaven Landmark District, the Civic Center Financial District, the Lower Arroyo Seco Historic District, the Orange Heights-Barnhart Tracts Historic District, the Park Place-Arroyo Terrace Historic District, the Prospect Historic District and the South Marengo Historic District.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 30, 2011.^[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California
• List of National Historic Landmarks in California

References

External links

• National Register Information System, National Park Service.