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Evening Events
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| Opening Reception and Exposition Preview |
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| Friday, October 15 |
| 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm |
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| Pasadena Heritage will begin its 2010 Craftsman Weekend with an elegant Opening Reception at the Pasadena Convention Center. The evening will feature a special behind-the-scenes tour of the historic Civic Auditorium and an exclusive preview of the newly expanded exhibit hall. Built in 1931 and opened in 2932, the historic Pasadena Civic Auditorium is one of the most revered performance halls in the nation and one of the best examples of Beaux Art architecture in the city of Pasadena. Listed on the National Register, the Auditorium, as part of the Convention Center, is the perfect blend of the old and the new. It stands as a lasting symbol of the quality and beauty of this great city. |
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| Guests will have the first opportunity to visit the Craftsman Exposition and even purchase one-of-a-kind items. There will be over 50 returning exhibitors and more than 30 new exhibitors from across the U.S. participating in this year's show and sale. The Silent Auction will be open for bids as well. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served between the tour and the grand opening of the Exposition. |
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| Price: $50 nonmember; $45 member |
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| Exclusive Tour and Reception at the Robert R. Blacker House - THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. |
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| Saturday, October 16 |
| 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |
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Pasadena Heritage is delighted to host an exclusive tour and reception at the Robert R. Blacker House in Pasadena. The Blacker House was built in 1907 for Robert R. Blacker and his wife Nellie. The home was furnished with custom Greene and Greene-designed furniture and light fixtures. A prominent landmark in Pasadena during the first decades of the twentieth century, the structure again made headlines in 1985, when the previous owner removed nearly all of the original leaded art glass light fixtures, doors, and panels from the house. A public outcry, with Pasadena Heritage at the forefront, led to a city ordinance that now helps to prevent the removal of original fixtures from Greene and Greene houses. The dedicated current owners have spent years restoring the Blacker House to its original splendor, commissioning the finest craftsmen. The reception will include tours of this National Register landmark with wine and hors d’oeuvres on the elegant patio. You will also have the opportunity to participate in a limited silent auction with exclusive items only available during this Saturday night event. |
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| Price: $145 nonmember; $110 member |
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| Tickets are limited, so please reserve early. |
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| Building the Blacker House - THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT. |
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| Sunday, October 17 |
| 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm |
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| Contemporary master woodworker Jim Ipekjian has studied the art and craft of Charles and Henry Greene for more than 25 years. His intimate relationship with the Robert R. Blacker house began in 1995 when he was commissioned to re-create the light fixtures for the house. He helped oversee the entire restoration, a full-time job lasting almost 2.5 years. He then turned his attention to the Greene & Greene furniture designs and their recreation. Mr. Ipekjian's tour reveals, from a craftsman’s point of view, how the Robert R. Blacker house was crafted. Guests will learn about the restoration, furnishings, decorative arts and architecture of the Blacker House revealing the intricacies of woodwork, metal craft, and art glass created especially for the house. This exclusive tour will include areas of the house never viewed by the public. |
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| Price: $250 nonmember; $220 member |
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| This event is limited to 15 people, so please reserve early. |
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Bus Tour Excursion
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| West Adams Historical District Tour |
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| Bus Tour I/Drive-yourself option |
| Friday, October 15 |
| 9:00 am – 3:00 pm |
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| This year’s special excursion will visit the West Adams Historical District in Los Angeles. In 2010, This Old House magazine selected West Adams as the best neighborhood in California for old house lovers "where the historic homes (and life-affirming DIY challenges they bring) are rivaled only by the community spirit that surrounds them." Keith Pandolfi, associate editor of This Old House, called West Adams the kind of place where you can find a solid old house that looks and feels like an authentic, old-fashioned American neighborhood and features some of the most whimsical takes on Craftsman architecture he's ever seen. |
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| Pasadena Heritage teams up with the West Adams Heritage Association to bring you this tour of four outstanding Craftsman homes. Featured on this tour will be the Charles and Henry Greene's Lucy Wheeler House, which is thought to be the only remaining house in the city of Los Angeles designed by the Greene brothers. The former owner, Martin Eli Weil, a restoration architect and founding member of the Los Angeles Conservancy, did meticulous research and restoration and guests will be surprised to discover many Greene & Greene notable features in this modest, urban home. |
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| Also featured on the tour will be a Train & Williams home recently featured on the cover of Style 1900 magazine, and listed on the National Register, as well as a Sumner and Hunt home and two side-by-side Arthur and Alfred Heineman-designed homes including the Craftsman featured in the CBS television drama, “NUMB3RS.” |
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Guests can choose to take this tour by motor coach or drive-themselves. The motor coach tour will include lunch at the beautifully restored Guasti Villa, a 1912 Hudson & Munsell-designed Beaux Arts Mansion and home of the Peace Awareness Labyrinth and Gardens. Guests may walk the labyrinth or tour the meditation gardens in this hidden, urban retreat center.
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| Price for Bus Excursion: $95 nonmember; $90 member (includes Lunch) |
| Price for Drive-yourself tour: $55 nonmember; $50 member |
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Bus Tours
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Lanterman House
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| Bus Tour II |
| Friday, October 15 |
| 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
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| The weekend will include a tour of the historic Lanterman House in neighboring LaCanada-Flintridge. In 1915, Dr. Roy Lanterman commissioned architect A. L. Haley to design a fireproof bungalow of reinforced concrete for his family. The result was a unique architectural treasure. There are many arts and crafts elements in the Lanterman house, and it retains its exquisite original interiors and furnishings, including elaborate hand-painted walls and ceiling ornamentation. Pasadena Heritage is privileged to have a special showing of this house museum for Craftsman Weekend. The Building Biographer, Tim Gregory, who serves as the Lanterman House archivist will present its history. |
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| Significant but Less Celebrated Architects Tour |
| Bus Tour III |
| Saturday, October 16 |
| 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
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| The work of architect George J. Webster and the Foss Designing & Building Company will be highlighted. Webster was a fairly prolific Craftsman architect during a span of less than ten years just before World War I. Lack of information about his earlier and later life have made him somewhat of a “mystery man,” but his rustic bungalows ranging from cottages to two-story chalets are sometimes mistaken for the early work of Greene & Greene. Founded in 1911, the Foss Company had its own architectural department which employed a number of designers who would later become well-known in their own right. The firm, a fixture in Pasadena for over seventy years, produced hundreds of attractive and quality-built Craftsman bungalows, good examples of which will be viewable on the tour. |
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| Craftsman Style Women's Clubs |
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In 1913, the South Pasadena Woman's Improvement Association built this clubhouse at Fremont Avenue and Rollins Street, with architectural plans donated by Norman Foote Marsh. The group would become the Woman's Club of South Pasadena in 1924.
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| Bus Tour IV |
| Saturday, October 16 |
| 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
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| An illustrated lecture and tour of Craftsman style Women’s Clubs will explore several local clubs built using this unique commercial application of Craftsman architecture. An introductory illustrated lecture will present an overview of the Woman’s Club movement in
California with examples of Craftsman club houses state-wide. |
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| Price Per Bus Tour: $45 nonmember; $40 member |
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| Bungalow Courts and Gartz Court Celebration |
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| The bungalow court originated in Pasadena in the early 1900s as an innovative solution to multi-family housing that provided its residents the amenities of a single family home. Constructed between 1909 and 1930, Pasadena has more than one hundred courts remaining, over twenty of which are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Bungalow Courts bus tour will explore some of these unique residences and then culminate in a celebration at Gartz Court. Gartz Court is one of Pasadena Heritage’s early success stories, and the owners are celebrating the courts' centenary by opening all six bungalows for Craftsman Weekend. |
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Tickets for the Bungalow Courts Bus Tour include the celebration at Gartz Court.
Tickets may be purchased separately for the Gartz Court celebration only. |
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Pasadena's Gartz Court featured in the current issue of American Bungalow magazine
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| Price Per Bus Tour: $55 nonmember; $50 member |
| Price for Celebration Only: $25 nonmember; $20 member |
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| All bus tours feature interior visits to historic properties along the route. Each tour is limited to 45 participants. |
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Walking Tours
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| Oaklawn Neighborhood Tour |
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| Walking Tour I |
| Friday, October 16 |
| 9:00 am – 11:00 am / 9:30 am – 11:30 am / 10:00 am – 12:00 pm / 10:30 am – 12:30 pm |
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The Oaklawn Neighborhood Tour, in neighboring South Pasadena, highlights an upscale enclave subdivided in 1904 near the now demolished Raymond Hotel. The neighborhood infrastructure includes stone entry portals(pictured, right) and an early reinforced concrete bridge, both designed by Greene & Greene. The structural engineer in charge of the restoration of the 1906 bridge will discuss the restoration process. There are ten large Craftsman residences, including designs by ArthurBenton, Kavanaugh & Barnes, and G. Lawrence Stimson. |
| Guests will visit the Cattern House (pictured above), designed in 1906 by the Los Angeles architects Dennis & Farwell. |
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| The Civic Center Tour |
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| Walking Tour II |
| Friday, October 15 |
| 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm / 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm / 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
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| The Civic Center Tour will showcase some of Pasadena's most distinctive civic and commerical buildings. Pasadena Heritage docents will share stories on the preservation efforts to save these historic landmarks, including the restoration of City Hall and the Central Library and the ongoing concerns about the YWCA building designed by Julia Morgan. |
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| Hillcrest Neighborhood Tour - THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT |
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| Walking Tour III |
| Saturday, October 16 |
| 9:00 am – 11:00 am / 9:30 am – 11:30 am / 10:00 am – 12:00 pm / 10:30 am – 12:30 pm |
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| The Hillcrest Neighborhood Tour will explore this neighborhood of elegant homes on the grand scale. Three Greene & Greene homes, including the Blacker House, as well as examples of other significant architects of the Arts & Crafts Movement are on the tour route. |
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| Garfield Heights Restoration Tour |
| Walking Tour IV |
| Saturday, October 16 |
| 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm / 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm / 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm / 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm |
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| The Garfield Heights Restoration tour will feature Craftsman homes in progress and recently restored. Artisans and restoration specialists will give demonstrations and speak about the work being done in Garfield Heights. |
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| Price per Walking Tour: $30 nonmember; $25 member |
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| All walking tours include an interior visit along the route. Each tour is limited to 4 groups of 20 people each. Groups will depart in 30-minute increments; please check your ticket for your exact departure time. |
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Sunday Craftsman House Tour
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| Craftsman House Tour |
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Sunday, October 17
9:00 am – 4:00 pm |
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Five exemplary Craftsman-era, privately-owned homes will be open for the Craftsman House Tour, with an emphasis on homes with English Arts & Crafts influence. The Arts & Crafts movement began in England as a celebration of traditional individual craftsmanship in the face of an increasingly machine-made environment. American Craftsman architects were greatly attracted to this philosophy, reflecting it in their own English-influenced designs.
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| Designed as a speculative house in 1914 by architect Sylvanus Marston, the Henry Newby House (pictured above) was first to be built in the exclusive Arroyo Park Tract of Pasadena. Modeled after the English Tudor style it instills references to the Arts & Crafts Movement. A broad, wrap around facade, hand-adzed woodwork, smooth stucco and plethora of windows and porches overlooking the Arroyo Seco and the San Gabriel Mountains embody the Craftsman style of architecture in Pasadena. This home recently underwent a major restoration after a burst pipe flooded several rooms. The owners were meticulous about returning the house to its original state. Using the natural beauty of the surrounding environment as inspiration for the house and landscape design, the owners have stayed true to Marston's design. |
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| The Anderson House (pictured above) is an English Arts & Crafts-style homes designed in 1910 by Sylvanus Marston for Mrs. Robert Anderson. Like many of Marston's designs, the interior is light, in constrast to the perceived dark interiors of other homes of the period. The placement of windows allows light in, even though the home has wide overhanging eaves. Thishome incudes original built-ins, wainscoting and woodwork in a typical English style. The exterior is virtually unchanged in 100 years. Located in the Madison Heights neighborhood, it is part of the Marston Tract, an area purchased by Sylvanus' father. |
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| Also on the tour is the Frederick C. Grable's House. Built soon after newylweds Frederick and Birdsall Grable came to Pasadena from Denver in 1906, this home was the first built by the partnership Grable & Austin. Frederick Grable and Clarence Austin, with almost no real estate experience, embarked on a contracting venture in 1906 that blossomed in Pasadena's favorable real estate climate during the early twentieth century. Together they built many fine bungalows in Pasadena during the Craftsman era. Grable's in-laws lived just down the street, and helped to finance many of Grable & Austin's early projects, including the Frederick C.Grable House in 1909. Built low to the ground with a dominant front chimney and entryway, this home shows a dramatic contrast to the intensely private entryway of the neighboring Greene & Greene. |
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| Two other charming Craftsman homes featuring Pasadena's finest architects in historic neighborhoods will be open for tour. |
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| Five houses will be featured on this tour. Docents will be at each of the five houses with additional information about the homes. This is a drive-yourself tour, so please allow four hours to complete the tour. |
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| Price: $45 nonmember; $40 member |
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| Children under age 10 may attend the House Tour free with one paying adult, though the House Tour may not be appropriate for those under age 6. Strollers are not allowed in any of the houses. This is a rain or shine event. |
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