{"nrhp_refnum":"87000980","name":"Home Laundry","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"432 S. Arroyo Pkwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pasadena","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.133234078000044,"lon":-118.14093826899995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story, T-plan brick and concrete laundry building with a two-story office front, at 432 South Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, California. It was built in 1922 in the Tudor Revival style.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a distinctive industrial example of Tudor Revival design by the prominent firm Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury. It is described as the first Pasadena industrial building with a separate attached office section designed to echo residential architecture. It is also tied to three prominent Pasadena businessmen: Daniel M. Linnard, Arnold J. Bertonneau and Edward K. Hoak.","narrative":"Built in 1922 at 432 South Arroyo Parkway in Pasadena, this brick and concrete laundry combines a large single-room plant with a two-story office section at the front. The design follows the Tudor Revival style, with half-timbering, cast stone quoins, gabled dormers, brick buttresses and a Tudor-arched entry. Its architects, Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury, gave an industrial building the scale and detailing of Pasadena's houses, which was unusual for the period. The nomination describes it as the city's first industrial building with an articulated office unit at the front, and as the only known industrial building there in this style. It is also linked to hotelier Daniel M. Linnard and to businessmen Arnold J. Bertonneau and Edward K. Hoak, who helped form the Home Laundry Company in 1922. The laundry served hotels and wealthy households until the business relocated in 1983. The interior retains its original concrete floor, steel columns and exposed wood rafters.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury, Architects; John A. Simpson, Contractor","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["B","C"],"status_note":"Listed as vacant and unoccupied in the form; the laundry business moved across the street in 1983. Part of the site is occupied by an auto repair business, and alterations are described as minor and largely reversible.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.816954-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/87000980.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000980/8239c0b9fa-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87000980/8239c0b9fa-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Brianyoungramirez","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Home_Laundry_2.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:Home_Laundry_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859214","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Laundry","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16892396"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/home-laundry-87000980/"}