Spinks house

Architect: Greene and Greene
Style: Arts and Crafts
City: Los Angeles, CA
Collection: greene & greene’s pasadena

The Spinks House, built 1908-1909 for retired judge William Ward Spinks and his wife Margaret Clapham Spinks, is a three-story-plus-basement California bungalow in Pasadena designed by Henry Mather Greene of Greene and Greene. It is a simpler version of the Arts and Crafts style the Greenes deployed more grandly up the street at the Blacker House.

the building

Craftsman with Japanese notes. The design draws on the American Craftsman emphasis on natural materials and hand craftsmanship, blended with an influence from traditional Japanese aesthetics and the open, land-rich informality of Southern California.

the style

The house is a California bungalow of the Arts and Crafts movement, built with the natural materials and Japanese-inflected detailing that define the Greenes' work, though at a far simpler scale than their grander commissions like the Blacker House.

the architect

Henry Mather Greene, working with his brother Charles as Greene and Greene, was among Pasadena's defining Arts and Crafts architects. The Spinks House was his individual design within the firm's body of work.

significance

The Spinks House is notable as one of a small handful of surviving Greene and Greene houses to retain its entire original character intact.

nearby

Robert R. Blacker House 0.2 mi · Arts and Crafts
Katherine Emery Estate 0.3 mi · Tudor Revival · 1928
Cordelia A. Culbertson House 0.3 mi
El Molino Viejo 0.4 mi · Spanish Colonial · 1816
Edwin Hubble House 0.6 mi · modern · 1925
Hale Solar Laboratory 0.9 mi · Spanish Colonial Revival · 1923

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