{"nrhp_refnum":"83001197","name":"Marengo Gardens","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"982, 986, 990 S. Marengo Ave. and 221-241 Ohio St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pasadena","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.13274088900005,"lon":-118.14548648199997,"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 Craftsman bungalow court of nine separate one-story bungalows at 982, 986 and 990 South Marengo Avenue and 221-241 Ohio Street in Pasadena, California, dated 1913.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the oldest bungalow courts in Pasadena. Each cottage combines Craftsman details differently, a trait seen in many courts. Its continued existence may be helped by individual ownership of the units.","narrative":"Marengo Gardens is a bungalow court in Pasadena, built in 1913 on about 0.4 acre at South Marengo Avenue and Ohio Street. It consists of nine separate one-story Craftsman bungalows. Six are grouped around a courtyard that opens onto Ohio Street, and the other three face Marengo Avenue. Each unit has its own character, achieved through different combinations of shingle and clapboard siding, shallow-pitched gable roofs, ventwork, brick detailing and buttressed piers. The nomination values the court as one of the oldest bungalow courts in Pasadena and notes that this variety of Craftsman detail is typical of many courts in the city. It also observes that individual ownership of the units may help the court continue to survive. The property was included as part of a group of Pasadena bungalow courts and was entered in the register in July 1983.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Craftsman","criteria":[],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.864554-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/83001197.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001197/cce060a4b6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83001197/cce060a4b6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Brianyoungramirez","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marengo_Gardens_3.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Brianyoungramirez</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:Marengo_Gardens_3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857546","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marengo_Gardens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14683261"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/marengo-gardens-83001197/"}