Pasadena Heritage invites you and your holiday guests to take tours featuring a variety of Pasadena’s architectural treasures, but hurry! The online tours will end on Sunday, Jan. 3.
Tickets for each virtual tour are $12 for Pasadena Heritage members and $15 for non-members. Full Tour packages are $42 for members and $53 for non-members.
There are four different programs to choose from for a fun and relaxing holiday activity that can be enjoyed from the safety and comfort of your own home, rain or shine.
The Craftsman Bungalows tour takes you into the heart of Pasadena’s architectural legacy. The neighborhoods are filled with bungalows of every size and description. For 29 years, Pasadena Heritage has hosted its Craftsman Weekend to showcase the finest examples of Craftsman architecture. This season, with Dennis Hill’s beautiful photography, immerse yourself in the Craftsman movement once again by taking a stay-at-home tour of some of the city’s finest Craftsman Weekend Sunday Tour houses.
The Freeman House tour will take you inside one of the Heineman brothers’ masterpieces, one of Pasadena’s beautiful estate homes in the Hillcrest neighborhood dating from the height of the Craftsman era. Designed by exceptionally talented and creative brothers Arthur and Alfred Heineman in 1913, the Freeman House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Pasadena Historic Monument in 2012. Documented by photographer Tavo Olmos, the house comes to life as a masterpiece of design and craftsmanship.
“Bridging the Past to the Future” presents the efforts at preserving the Langham Huntington Picture Bridge. This virtual presentation premiered as an exclusive event for Pasadena Heritage Associates. The presentation includes a panel discussion with Paul Leclerc, the Langham Huntington Hotel’s managing director, and Robert Chattel of Chattel, Inc. Historic preservation consultants talk about the process to strengthen and restore the Myron Hunt-designed footbridge, one of the original historic features of the Huntington Hotel. Pasadena Heritage consulted on this project and worked with the team to achieve a very preservation-sensitive project.
The South Grand Avenue Self-Guided Walking Tour takes you down one of Pasadena’s most beautiful and prestigious residential streets. A special tour brochure of South Grand Avenue was created this year as part of Pasadena Heritage’s 2020 Virtual Celebration of the Colorado Street Bridge and is available all year round. The digital copy of the South Grand Walking Tour booklet is 16 pages in length and is available through ISSUU where it can be viewed or downloaded after purchase. You can take it with you on a stroll through the South Grand neighborhood and learn about one of the earliest portions of the settlement that became Pasadena.
For tickets to the Architectural Legacy tour, visit www.eventbrite.com/e/
