Edmund Blinn House

Architect: George W. Maher
Year: 1905
Style: Prairie School
City: Los Angeles, CA

The Edmund Blinn House is a 1905 Prairie School home in Pasadena designed by George W. Maher, a follower of Louis H. Sullivan and a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright. Its Craftsman-inflected attention to aesthetic integration helped earn it a place on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

the style

Maher worked in the Prairie School idiom associated with Sullivan's circle and Wright's contemporaries, but gave the house the aesthetic integration typical of the American Craftsman movement, blending the two vocabularies.

the architect

George Washington Maher worked as a follower of Louis H. Sullivan and a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, part of the generation of architects who developed the Prairie School style.

significance

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. After nearly 76 years as home to the Women's City Club of Pasadena, it was gifted in 2021 to Pasadena Heritage, which now maintains its headquarters there.

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