Original survey photo
(ca. 1990)
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APN: 5840-007-007
AHAD ID: 14283
Year Built: 1900 (actual)
Year Built (Assessor): 1895
Year Built (Other): Not on File
Legal Description: Lots 7 & 8, Blk. 23, Altadena Map #1
Quadrant: Not on File
Current Lot Size: Not on File
Historic Name: Benziger House
Style: Victorian
Stories: 2
Type: Residence
CHRS: 3S
Architects: Locke & Munsell (confirmed)
Locke & Munsell (attributed to) (1900)
Builders: Stanley, C.N. (confirmed)
Cutchios (McCutcheon?), J.E.M. (attributed to) (1900)
Building Permits:
None on File
Alterations:
| Cost | Description | Year |
| |
N/A |
1900 |
Original Owner: Chambliss, George S.
Original Owner Occupation: Not on File
Place of Business: Not on File
Other Owners:
| Name | Years | Comment |
| Overconer, Alexander |
N/A |
N/A |
| Benziger, August |
N/A |
N/A |
Original Cost: $5,951
Original Lot Size: Not on File
Moved on to Property: N
Former Addresses:
| Address | Years |
| Mariposa & Santa Anita, SW Corner Altadena, CA 91001 |
1900 |
Note
2-sto. frame residence; completed 8/1/1900; 1900: 1 sto. frame stable & carriage house; owner Overconer, missionary in China; owner Benziger, an artist from Switzerland; Benziger cousins Rita & Meyl ran orphanage in house during WWII, housed 219 children
Sources
Builder & Contractor (journal) 3/7/1900
Builder & Contractor (journal) 5/23/1900
Builder & Contractor (journal) 8/2/1900, p. 3
Builder & Contractor (journal) 8/16/1900, p. 1
Altadena by Sara Noble Ives (book), p. 111
Daily Journal 3/5/1900
Daily Jour. 7/28/1900
Pasadena Evening Post (newspaper) 12/11/19
Rita Benziger
Altadena Historical Society
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