800 S. San Rafael, Pasadena, California. County/parish: Los Angeles.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 13, 1984. NRIS 84000896.
2 contributing buildings.
Villa Verde, located at 800 S. San Rafael in Pasadena, California, is a historic estate built in 1927. The estate was designed by Marston, Van Pelt & Maybury and is representative of their Spanish Colonial Revival designs. The design features extensive wrought iron ornamentation and a terra cotta roof. F. A. Hardy, former chairman of the Goodrich Corporation and a renowned horticulturist, first inhabited the house and planted its still-surviving garden.
The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included two contributing buildings on 1.8 acres (0.73 ha).
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859601