Home Laundry
- Architect
- Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury
- Year
- 1922
- Style
- Tudor Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The Home Laundry building at 432 S. Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena was built in 1922 for the Home Laundry Company, founded by local businessmen Daniel M. Linnard, Arnold J. Bertonneau, and Edward K. Hoak, of whom Linnard held a national reputation in the hotel industry. Designed by the Pasadena firm Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury, it broke from convention by visually separating its office and industrial spaces while structurally integrating them into one building.
the building
Tudor Revival details. Ornamental half-timbering runs across the front facade, with coursed brickwork, gabled dormers above the second-story windows, and stone quoins at the corners.
Office and plant combined. The company's design visually separated its office space from its industrial laundry space while structurally uniting them in one building, a new building type for Pasadena in 1922.
the style
The building's Tudor Revival design was highly unusual for its function; half-timbering and gabled dormers were normally reserved for houses and clubs, not laundry plants. It remains the only Tudor Revival commercial or industrial building in Pasadena.
More on Tudor Revivalsignificance
The Home Laundry building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1987.
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- Royal Laundry Complex
- Don Carlos Court
- Stoutenburgh House
- Court at 744-756½ S. Marengo Ave.
- Hotel Green
- Miss Orton's Classical School for Girls