The Valley House Record.
San Gabriel Valley houses by the year they were built, with who designed them, and who built them and who lived there first where the record says.
Every year this record covers, from 1882 to 1977, with the number of houses whose architect a document names. Years with at least 100 such houses have their own page: what was built, who designed it, and every house. The other years are listed on a page for their decade, and the houses with no year on record have a page too.
What is the Valley House Record?
A record of San Gabriel Valley houses whose architect a document names, by the year they were built, with the builder and the first family wherever the documents name them too. Every house has a birth year, and for 1,055 houses here the record gives it, across 82 different years. 0 more are dated only to a decade or a looser span, such as the early 1880s, the 1920s or the late 1800s, and are counted in the record but not under a single year.
Which years have a page of their own?
Every year with at least 100 houses with a named architect: 1927. The other years are on a page for their decade, the years before 1880 share one page, and the houses with no year on record have a page of their own. The busiest year is 1927, with 104 houses. The building notices read for this record cover 1917 (July to December), 1918 (January to September), 1919, 1920 and 1921 (all year), 1922 (January to June and October to December), 1923 (April to June and October to December), 1924 (January to March and October to December), 1925 (all year), 1926 (January to March and October to December), 1927, 1928 and 1929 (all year), and January and October to December 1930, and they add 243 houses with a named architect found in no other document.
Why does my house's year differ from the county's?
Because the two records measure different things. The county's year built is the assessor's figure, sometimes the year the house was finished or first taxed. A permit gives the year the house was begun; a survey gives the year its author found, sometimes an estimate. Where the two differ by more than a few years, the year pages show the county's figure under the record's. A large gap can mean the house was rebuilt, that the record describes later work on an older house, or that one of the two years is off.
The Valley House Record, year by year.
The 1880s
The 1890s
The 1900s
The 1910s
The 1920s
The 1930s
The 1940s
The 1950s
The 1960s
The 1970s
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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