Court at 744-756½ S. Marengo Ave.

Style: Art Deco
City: Los Angeles, CA
Collection: l.a. deco

Built in 1931 by contractor D. J. Ringle, this bungalow court at 744-756½ S. Marengo Ave. gathers six buildings and fourteen residential units around a shared driveway in Pasadena. Its fluted parapets and engaged piers make it one of the few Art Deco residential properties in the city, earning it a reputation as probably the most unusual bungalow court in Pasadena.

the building

Six buildings, fourteen units. Two of the six buildings rise two stories while the rest are single-story, all arranged around a central driveway in the bungalow-court layout common to 1920s-30s Pasadena, but rendered here in Art Deco rather than the more typical Spanish Colonial Revival.

the style

The court's Art Deco vocabulary is unusual for a Pasadena bungalow court, most of which lean Spanish Colonial or Mission Revival. Fluted parapets and engaged piers give the otherwise modest residential buildings a geometric, streamlined profile distinct from their neighbors.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1983.

nearby

Home Laundry 0.4 mi · Tudor Revival · 1922
Royal Laundry Complex 0.4 mi · Streamline Moderne · 1927
Don Carlos Court 0.5 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival
Stoutenburgh House 0.6 mi · Queen Anne
Rose Court 0.7 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival
Miss Orton's Classical School for Girls 0.7 mi · Colonial Revival · 1900

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