The Home Laundry is a historic building at 432 S. Arroyo Parkway in

Pasadena Pasadena ( ) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. Old Pasadena is the city's original commercial district. Its ...

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. The building was constructed in 1922 for the Home Laundry Company, a laundry service founded by Pasadena businessmen Daniel M. Linnard, Arnold J. Bertonneau, and Edward K. Hoak. All three were well known in Pasadena, and Linnard had a national reputation for his work in the hotel industry. The company's building represented a new type of building design in Pasadena, as the company's office space and industrial space were both visually separated and structurally integrated. In addition, the building has an uncommon

Tudor Revival Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

design created by the local architecture firm

Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury Marston, Van Pelt, & Maybury and associated partnership names were architects in Pasadena, California. Partners Partners were Sylvanus Marston (1883-1946), Garrett Van Pelt (1879-1972) and Edgar Maybury. The firm designed hundreds of custom home ...

. The building's design features ornamental

half-timbering Timber framing (german: Holzfachwerk) and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden ...

on the front façade, coursed brickwork, gabled

dormer A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable space ...

s above the second-story windows, and stone

quoin Quoins ( or ) are masonry blocks at the corner of a wall. Some are structural, providing strength for a wall made with inferior stone or rubble, while others merely add aesthetic detail to a corner. According to one 19th century encyclopedia, t ...

s at the corners. The building is the only Tudor Revival commercial or industrial building in Pasadena. . The building was added to the

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on June 18, 1987.

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Industrial buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in California Tudor Revival architecture in California Industrial buildings completed in 1922 Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Pasadena, California Former laundry buildings {{LosAngelesCountyCA-NRHP-stub

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