Austin & Grable.
C. A. Austin and F. C. Grable, Pasadena, 1907 to 1914.
Austin & Grable, the partnership of C. A. Austin and F. C. Grable, built houses on the Lower Arroyo's streets from 1907 to 1912: La Loma Road, West California Boulevard and South Grand Avenue. On all eleven of the district's houses it credits to them, the nomination names them as architect and builder, though the architect credit is an attribution on eight. In 1914 they were the contractors for the house at 880 South Madison Avenue designed by Louis du Puget Millar.
Who were Austin & Grable?
A partnership of C. A. Austin and F. C. Grable. The records say little about the two men, and their houses say more. On 14 houses here they are named as architect, builder or both: most in the Lower Arroyo Seco district, two 1912 houses in Markham Place, at 288 Bellefontaine Street and 340 Congress Place, and the 1914 house at 880 South Madison Avenue.
What do Austin & Grable houses look like?
California bungalows and two-story Arts and Crafts houses, several with Chalet characteristics, in a district whose nomination counts sixteen contributing retaining walls. 288 Bellefontaine Street, from 1912, is recorded as Mediterranean Revival.
Which Austin & Grable houses still stand?
The county record confirms 12 of these houses standing; for one more it gives a later year built, which can mean the house was rebuilt or that one of the two years is off.
Who can tell me if my house is an Austin & Grable?
I can check. I'm Greg Anderson of Arroyo Casa. In the Lower Arroyo, Austin & Grable is the name on more houses than any other. Send me the address and I'll tell you whether the nomination credits them, and whether the design credit is stated or attributed.
Every building credited to Austin & Grable.
Buildings the record credits to Austin & Grable, in the order they were built. Commercial buildings and courts are included here because they are part of the maker's work; the neighborhood, city and year pages list houses only.
Where to look next.
- The Lower Arroyo Seco · 11 of these houses
- Markham Place · 2 of these houses
- Pasadena
How this record is built.
This record is compiled by the Arroyo Casa Archive of Records from public documents: city and county historic resources surveys and inventories, National Register nominations, landmark designation reports and council records, planning documents and preservation groups' publications, plus the building notices of 1917 to 1930, printed as houses were permitted, contracted or announced. Where a house was matched to the Los Angeles County Assessor's record at the same address in the same city, the page says whether the county confirms it standing. A house is shown only when one of those documents names its architect, and the builder and the first family are shown beside the architect where a document names them. Each house carries the kind of document behind it, and a credit the document itself calls likely, probable, possible or attributed is marked attributed. The methodology and every source document are on one page.
Find who designed your house.
Every house has a birth year. Start with the owner's guide: how to find who designed and built your house, who lived in it first, and what this record already holds.
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