237 State

Welcome to 237 West State Street, built in 1912 as noted in the National Register of Historic Places. This two-story English Craftsman style residence, located in the Pasadena Avenue Historic District, was designed by architect Frederick Louis Roehrig and built by Louis Pomeroy. It sits on a raised berm on the north side of State Street with a primary side-gabled roof with open eaves, exposed rafter tails and wide, exposed roof rakes with extended purlins. There are a pair of two-story, front-facing bays at the east and west ends of the front elevation. The western bay has a shallow hipped roof with boxed eaves, a wood French door centered on the first level, and a ribbon of four six-pane wood casement windows. There is an applied trellis on this portion of the façade. The eastern bay is a square, through-cornice shed-roofed wall dormer with a ribbon of four wood casement windows at both the first and second levels. An inset entry porch between these two bays has a small flared shed roof and a brick pad; the skylight in the hallway floods the space with natural light; the single-leaf door is wood with twelve inset panels and a wooden screen door. There is a built-in wood bench on either side of the entry porch. Utilities have been off for an extended period of time and will not be activated for inspections. Come tour this significant historical property in the heart of Pasadena!