Andrew McNally House
- Architect
- Frederick Roehrig
- Year
- 1888
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Andrew McNally House was the Altadena home of Andrew McNally, an Irish immigrant printer who partnered with William Rand to found the Rand McNally publishing company. McNally paid Pasadena architect Frederick Roehrig $15,000 to design this 6,938-square-foot, 22-room Queen Anne house, completed in 1888 on a stretch of Mariposa Street that came to be known as "Millionaire's Row." It was destroyed by the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.
the building
Millionaire's Row. After moving his fortune west in 1880, McNally became a booster for Altadena, persuading friends to build mansions alongside his own along Mariposa Street — enough of them that the street became known locally as Millionaire's Row.
the style
Roehrig designed the house in the Queen Anne style, the ornate, asymmetrical Victorian idiom favored by the wealthy families building along Mariposa Street in the 1880s.
More on Queen Annethe architect
Frederick Roehrig was a Pasadena architect active in the elaborate, romantic residential styles fashionable in Gilded Age Southern California; McNally paid him $15,000 for the McNally House design, a considerable sum in 1888.
significance
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, a status it held until it burned to the ground in the Eaton Fire on January 8, 2025.
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