Historic Preservation Commission Approves Landmark Status for Spanish Revival Style Home

The Pasadena Historic Preservation Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved landmark status for a 94-year-old Spanish Revival Style home at 371 Patrician Way.

According to the Pasadena Historic Context Report titled “Residential Period Revival Architecture and Development in Pasadena from 1915-1942,” many scholars credit the rise of the Spanish Revival Style to the Panama-California Exposition of 1915. Spanish Revival was among many period revival subtypes. 

Pasadena Heritage supported granting landmark status to the home. 

The style is derived from cultures around the Mediterranean region and often deemed as an appropriate choice because of the similarities between Southern California’s climate and that of the Mediterranean region. 

The home was built in 1927 and designed by the architectural firm Webber, Staunton & Spaulding as the family residence of partner William F. Staunton.

Staunton left the firm in 1928 to open his own practice in Pasadena, specializing in residential projects until his retirement in 1961. Webber and Spaulding remained in partnership until at least 1930 when Webber retired. Spaulding later partnered with architect John Leon Rex and engineer Clarence Gordon Dewsarte in the firm Spaulding, Rex and Deswarte. 

“Under Criterion C, the building at 371 Patrician Way is significant because it is a locally significant, intact example of a Spanish Revival Style architecture,” according to a staff report prepared by Senior Planner Amanda Landry.

The report states that the building has a high level of architectural integrity through its location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, and feeling.