Raymond-Summit Historic District

Located in Pasadena, this residential district centers on North Raymond Avenue and Summit Avenue, with East Villa Street and East Maple Street forming other edges. It contains 22 contributing and 27 noncontributing buildings, mostly houses built between about 1890 and 1905. Styles include Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, American Foursquare, Colonial Revival and vernacular hipped and gabled cottages. Typical lots have a one or two-story main house set behind a landscaped yard, a concrete driveway at one side, and a newer garage or extra dwelling at the rear. Mature street trees line the blocks, and several front yards have Canary Island date palms. Architects represented include Charles W. Buchanan and the early firm of Greene & Greene, whose 1897 shingle-style house stands on Raymond Avenue. The district is one of three Pasadena neighborhoods with intact groups of late 19th and early 20th century homes, and its houses are generally larger and more elaborate than those in the other two, having been built for wealthier clients. Despite alterations, it keeps the feel of a middle-class neighborhood of that era.