Landmark Home Sets a Standard
Prospect Park craftsman, designed by Louis DuPuget Millar, carries history and cachet
By EDDIE RIVERA, Editor, Weekendr Magazine
714 Prospect Boulevard, Pasadena, California, 91103
In 1911, Millar opened his own office in partnership with George A. Clark, a local haberdasher turned architect. His first house in Pasadena was for fellow expatriate E.J. Cheesewright.
The home was vaguely Cotswold in design with rolled eaves edging a roof with shingles that imitated thatch. The interior of the house was thoroughly Arts and Crafts except that, unlike other Pasadena houses in that mode, it had no wainscoting.
Millar tended to design houses with a British look, often on or near the banks of the Arroyo Seco.
The transitional Brainard Craftsman home is now available for the first time in 65 years, at $2,575,000. It sits among other neighborhood architectural wonders by legendary architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene, Wallace Neff, the Heinemans and others.
The property features five bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths in 3,137 interior square feet, on a 11,755 square foot lot.
