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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
Guess what, I found another photograph of the Bristol House.
PDHC
"View of the Bristol House, 1st house built in Pasadena. This photo was clearly taken after its use as a house had passed." [no date]
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I'm curious about the white horse-barn on the right (in the photo I just posted )
Do you think it's this building? (with the red star)
What confuses me is that the two buildings look aligned in the photo (if you look at the roofs) & as you can see on the map, the Bristol house is at an angle.
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The photo of the barn and the 1874 Bristol house appear to match a later map. If we can believe the Sanborn Maps, the
barn was nudged a bit off the property line (compare with the 1903 map above), and the old Bristol house, marked "SHED"
below, was apparently aligned to be parallel with the barn:
1910 Sanborn @ ProQuest via LAPL
I guess that's the Bristol house above the barn on the 1930-31 Sanborn:
ProQuest via LAPL
The 1951 Pasadena Sanborn shows that barn still standing, and 591 Lincoln as well, but not the 1874 Bristol house.
I found another photo of the 1874 Bristol house, too, with Mr. Bristol and his family. The shape of the house compares
favorably with the 1903 Sanborn, but I can't explain the building we see part of at far left:
Pasadena Digital History @
Flickr
Pasadena, California, Historical and Personal (1917) by J. W. Wood @
GoogleBooks
I could not find out what ultimately happened to the Bristol house. Surely NLA has a correpondent in Pasadena or elsewhere
who knows the story. If the home didn't survive, it wasn't for lack of an opportunity to preserve it:
January 17, 1921,
Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LAPL