New Fair Oaks Historic District

This small Pasadena neighborhood on Lincoln Avenue and West Villa Street preserves a cluster of modest one-story houses built between 1888 and 1906. Most are Vernacular Hipped or Gabled Cottages, with a few Queen Anne examples, and they share a consistent arrangement: a main house set behind a small landscaped front yard, a concrete driveway to one side and a newer garage or second dwelling at the rear. Details include drop channel siding, fish-scale shingles, Tuscan porch posts and Arroyo stone foundations. Named designers include architects William B. Edwards and Charles W. Buchanan. Eleven buildings contribute to the district's character, while ten, including later rear structures and two heavily altered houses, do not. The district was recognized as a coherent grouping that reflects Pasadena's early settlement, the boom of the 1880s and its residential architecture, and it still reads from the street as a late 19th and early 20th century neighborhood despite minor alterations.