Starting on Saturday, December 5, experience four elegant Pasadena homes in a virtual tour as part of the 2020 Holiday Look in Virtual Home Tour, presented by the Women’s Committee of the Pasadena Symphony Association.
Registration is required, but participants will have the opportunity to experience some of Pasadena’s magnificent architecture embellished with the talent of the finest floral designers.
This Holiday Look In Home Tour is an enormously popular event that has become a community celebration, offering visitors a chance to view four distinctive homes in Pasadena, decorated for the holiday season by prominent floral designers. Tantalizing to elegant, inventive to endearing, the annual Holiday Look In Home Tour delivers visual delights, and although virtual only, this year’s event, the 53rd annual iteration, will be no exception.
The 2020 Holiday Look In Tour will feature these four homes:
“Magnolia House” is a regal Federal style home that pays tribute to its history while residing gracefully in the present. The home was built in 1912 by architect Reginald Johnson. The stately two-story residence has a large colonnaded veranda and is sheltered by a large magnolia tree and a towering pine tree. It is appropriately located on Magnolia Street and artistic embellishments throughout the home pay tribute to the stately Magnolia tree. This home represents true Southern California living at its best.
The “House of a Thousand Dreams” is a magnificent Basque country villa designed in 1929 by Edward M. Fowler with exquisite, detailed attention to the beautiful Basque estates in the Pyrenees. The house is located in the Linda Vista neighborhood of the Upper Arroyo in Pasadena with a spectacular view of the Pioneers and the Colorado Street Bridges. The home was designed around a central courtyard providing a view of the lovely garden from almost every room of the house and includes the original stone tiles that carry over into the loggia.
“F.W. Griffith House” is a sublime Mediterranean-style home designed in 1925 by Roland E. Coate, one of the most distinguished designers of Spanish architecture in the 1920’s. Originally built for F.W. Griffith, it is an outstanding example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, featuring textured white-washed adobe exteriors, mission-style arches and batten shutters. The house is centrally located in Pasadena’s Landmark Oak Knoll District, adjacent to the celebrated Langham Hotel.
“Villa Verde” has elegant iron scroll gates that open to a winding drive which leads up to this magnificent Mediterranean estate. Created in 1927 by architect Sylvanus Marston of the firm Marston, Van Pelt and Maybury, the property was built for E. A. Hardy, who was the past chairman of B. F. Goodrich. In 1984 the house was placed in the National Register of Historic Places as the best representative of his Mediterranean architectural style. The 22-room, 8,500 square-foot home sits on beautifully landscaped grounds atop a knoll overlooking the Arroyo Seco.
Proceeds from this event support the Pasadena Symphony and POPS annual concert series, as well as the educational outreach and community engagement programs such as the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestras. These programs continually offer robust musical training and personal development for young musicians throughout the San Gabriel Valley, fostering music appreciation and aptitude in future generations.
The Holiday Look In Home Tour is free, but donations are encouraged to help support the Pasadena Symphony and POPS annual concert series, as well as the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestras.
For more information and to register, visit www.pasadenaholidaylookin.org/
