{"nrhp_refnum":"07000996","name":"Royal Laundry Complex","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"443 S. Raymond Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pasadena","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.138026385000046,"lon":-118.14924525799995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial laundry complex at 443 South Raymond Avenue in Pasadena, California, made up of a 1927 Main Plant, a ca. 1930 South Annex, a 1939 Drive-up Building and a 1955 Overhead Sign, plus a non-contributing 2003 parking structure.","why_significant":"The Main Plant is described as one of Pasadena's most architecturally significant industrial buildings, designed by master architect Gordon B. Kaufmann. The Drive-up Building and Annex are significant as examples of Streamline Moderne design shaped by automobile-oriented business in Pasadena before World War II. The 1955 sign is a contributing feature of the Drive-up Building.","narrative":"Royal Laundry is a complex of industrial and commercial buildings at the southwest corner of South Raymond Avenue and Bellevue Drive in Pasadena, just south of the city's historic commercial core. The laundry company began around 1910. The Main Plant of 1927 is a board-formed concrete building with fluted columns, tall window bays, a scalloped parapet and a glazed-tile entrance, designed by architect Gordon B. Kaufmann in a restrained Spanish Colonial Revival manner. A frame Annex of about 1930 was altered in 1939 to match the Streamline Moderne Drive-up Building, which has a curved facade built so customers could deliver and collect laundry from their cars. A 1955 overhead sign spans the driveway. The complex was listed for its architecture and for its place in Pasadena's early auto-related development. It has since been rehabilitated as offices, with a 2003 parking structure added at the rear.","period_of_significance":"1927-1955","architect_builder":"Kaufmann, Gordon B.","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals/Spanish Colonial Revival; Modern Movement/Streamlined Moderne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated into commercial office space with a new parking structure added in 2003; historic functions were industrial laundry processing, current functions are commerce/business and specialty store.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.681791-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/07000996.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000996/0b58947cf9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000996/0b58947cf9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"TheCatalyst31","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royal_Laundry_Complex_1.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:Royal_Laundry_Complex_1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859473","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Laundry_Complex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15273515"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/royal-laundry-complex-07000996/"}