{"nrhp_refnum":"01000330","name":"Merrill, Samuel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1285 N. Summit Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pasadena","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.170314989000076,"lon":-118.148760402,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-04-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story Craftsman bungalow single-family house at 1285 N. Summit Avenue in northwest Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California, built in 1910 and designed by Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a good example of the California Bungalow sub-type of Pasadena residential architecture, shown through Arts and Crafts design, natural materials such as redwood and arroyo stone, and fine carpentry. It keeps a high degree of integrity inside and out with minimal alterations. It is also tied to Samuel Merrill Jr., a court clerk, Sierra Club leader and trail keeper.","narrative":"This one-story Craftsman bungalow at 1285 N. Summit Avenue in Pasadena was built in 1910 for Samuel Merrill Jr. and designed by Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene. It has a low cobblestone foundation, unpainted clapboard walls, a double front-facing gable, deep eaves with exposed rafter-tails, clinker brick details and bands of casement windows. Terraces, a cobblestone retaining wall along the street and mature fruit and oak trees remain from the original grounds. Inside, the woodwork, built-in bookshelves, fireplace and kitchen features are largely original. The house was listed for its architecture, as an example of the California Bungalow type that reflects Arts and Crafts values of simplicity, natural materials and handcraft. Merrill, a Stanford law graduate, worked as a Los Angeles court clerk and served the Sierra Club; a trail at Echo Mountain was renamed for him. The house had been vacant, neglected and threatened with demolition after a 1998 foreclosure.","period_of_significance":"1910","architect_builder":"Greene, Charles Sumner and Henry Mather","architectural_style":"Bungalow/Craftsman","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The form says the house has sat vacant in recent years and has suffered from lack of maintenance and vandalism. After a bank foreclosure in 1998 it was in danger of demolition, but the bank agreed to sell the property.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.809854-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/01000330.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000330/f2f64cdcbe-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000330/f2f64cdcbe-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TheCatalyst31","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Merrill_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">TheCatalyst31</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Merrill_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857556","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Merrill_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17183527"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/merrill-samuel-house-01000330/"}