Pasadena Boulevard follows the old right-of-way of the streetcar line that comes up out of Pine Lawn to the east.
Just to the north of the park above was Minoma, the Italianate country estate of Jefferson Kearny. It is no longer extant.
We enter Northwoods, which was the giant Edgewood survey, which you can see above, owned by C.D. McClure, Lamira W. Kehlor and C. Nelson. The smaller Oak Ridge Heights addition had already been platted.
The houses, as expected, date to the early Twentieth Century, particularly the 1920s and 30s, with Tudor Revival, as well as post-war houses.
There is but one two-family flat.
Due to the rugged terrain, some houses are quite a distance above the old streetcar and automobile right-of-way.
Probably the finest of the north county Pine Lawn estates was “Nelsonia,” constructed by Lewis C. Nelson about 1888 (see MoHis for photo). I spoke with a descendant several years ago and got some cool photos (don’t know where I stashed them, I’m a sloppy archivist). They had their own little train station with “Nelsonia” spelled out in the floor tiles! I tried to find remnants down along the tracks but was unsuccessful.