Orange Grove Court

Style: Spanish Colonial Revival
City: Los Angeles, CA

Built in 1924 at 745 East Orange Grove Blvd. in Pasadena, Orange Grove Court lines a central walkway with twelve single-family houses built in the Mission Revival style. Arched porches and windows, stucco exteriors, and tile roofs run through all twelve, with a double arch closing the walkway in place of the more common practice of ending in another house.

the building

The double arch. Rather than closing the walkway with a house, as most bungalow courts do, Orange Grove Court ends in a double arch, a deliberate variation on the standard bungalow-court plan.

the style

Mission Revival details define the court: arched porches and windows paired with stucco walls and tile roofs across all twelve houses, set within the wider Spanish Colonial Revival tradition of 1920s Pasadena.

significance

The court's National Register of Historic Places nomination calls it a building that 'epitomizes the concept of the Southern California bungalow court' for its layout and Mission Revival details.

nearby

Theodore Parker Lukens House 0.5 mi · Queen Anne
Edmund Blinn House 0.7 mi · Prairie School · 1905
Odd Fellows Temple 0.7 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1918
Colonial Court 0.7 mi · Colonial Revival
First Trust Building and Garage 0.8 mi · Mediterranean Vernacular · 1927
Singer Building 0.9 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival

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