The Front Yards of 90042
September 13, 2010
Ivy House in Hermon
While the front yard of this lovely house of ivy on Terrill Avenue in Hermon is tiny, the statement it makes is mighty.
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This is a pretty typical, smaller home that most of the 107-year-old Hermon community was made up of until a few decades ago, many of them under 1,000 SF. In contrast to the larger symbolic Craftsman, etc. homes in next-door South Pasadena and across the Arroyo in our neighboring community of Highland Park, Hermon’s original “college town” lots created when one of the predecessors of Azusa Pacific Univ. was operating here, were narrow and compact. They also invited placement of some the smaller mail-order “kit” homes sold in the early 20th Century by stores like Sears Roebuck. Occasionally, if someone wanted to build something more demonstrative, they would have to purchase two lots (side-by-side, or back-to-back).
I believe this one is currently owned by a realtor. (My wife’s grandparents built it in the late 1940s, then rented it out for many years after moving to another Hermon home they also built. The equally small home behind it — on an adjacent street, her parents built as their first family home after her father left the Army between wars (WWII and Korea), and started school under the GI Bill. Both are on the equally narrow streets originally named for early Free Methodist movement leaders (the religious denomination that created Hermon in 1903) — – Terrill & Pullman. More recent owners planted the beautiful ivy, however.
What is name of the website/organization that makes this “Maybe I’m Illegal” sign?
Good question.
how lovely to see – thank you for ‘showing off’ my home(s) and adding the lovely information about your wife’s family…by the way I ordered the posters myself from Vista Print on line – my thought – my graphics…..