{"nrhp_refnum":"83001196","name":"Las Casitas Court","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"656 N. Summit Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pasadena","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.15725033900003,"lon":-118.14755293399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A twelve-unit Craftsman style bungalow court at 656 North Summit Avenue in Pasadena, California, built in 1916 on about 0.4 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the few remaining examples of the Craftsman court, with a Japanese-inspired torii and artfully placed boulders at the front. It also illustrates efficient use of a single lot as income property, fitting into a largely single-family neighborhood of Victorian and Craftsman homes.","narrative":"Las Casitas Court is a bungalow court at 656 North Summit Avenue in Pasadena, built in 1916. It holds twelve units: two rows of five stuccoed one-story buildings, plus a two-story shingle-sided building across the rear. The first four buildings on each side have front-facing gables, broad eaves, exposed rafters, gable vents and shed-roofed porches with wooden posts and a low concrete wall. The last building on each side and the rear structure have wooden pergolas over their entrances. Two walkways run through a narrow central courtyard, and a low concrete wall, an entrance torii and a gate mark the front property line, with boulders arranged on the tree lawn. The court was listed as one of the few remaining examples of the Craftsman court form, notable for its Japanese-inspired torii and placed boulders. It also shows how a single lot could be used efficiently as income property within a neighborhood of Victorian and Craftsman homes.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":"The nomination states that the listed courts, including this one, are fully inhabited and that many have waiting lists of prospective tenants.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.31515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/83001196.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001196/0168f0b99a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001196/0168f0b99a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"TheCatalyst31","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Casitas_Court.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">TheCatalyst31</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Las_Casitas_Court.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857530","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Casitas_Court","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683047"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/las-casitas-court-83001196/"}