It’s been almost exactly sixteen years since I first visited Pasadena Hills, and judging from the extremely low quality of the photos I took of the beautiful North County suburb I took back then, it was well past due to revisit. Comprising 120 acres and developed starting in 1928, the initial investment of the Carter Realty Company was $400,000. The streetcar line, the “Kirkwood-Ferguson car” that is now Pasadena Boulevard leads right to the front door of the subdivision/municipality.

The main thoroughfare, Roland Boulevard, along with the Norman Gothic Revival gateway, no doubt was intended to allude to the French provincial countryside.

The houses are mainly in the Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival styles, which was typical of the 1920s.

But then there is this interesting, modern leaning house.