“A 1916 Craftsman with a pool and nothing left to fix. Houses like this get spoken for fast.”
- Claire O'Connor
1026
E Orange Grove Blvd
Pasadena
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
2
Total Area
1,411 Sq. FT
Lot Size
7,988 Sq. FT
Price
$1,089,000
A Craftsman Bungalow, Already Finished
This is a 1916 Craftsman on the southern edge of Bungalow Heaven, the Pasadena neighborhood that set the template for the style and still enforces it block by block. The house checks every box the neighborhood is known for: the sunshine-yellow front door, the brick fireplace, the built-ins, the bay window with a seat. Then it adds one the neighborhood usually doesn’t, a pool. Most hundred-year-old bungalows ask you to choose between charm and comfort. This one was updated with enough restraint that you don’t have to.
Listed by Tracy B Do and Jason Huddy, Coldwell Banker Realty
Inside
The living and dining rooms are formal in the old sense, real rooms, not a knocked-through open plan, with the brick fireplace doing the anchoring and wainscoting and the bay seat doing the rest. The kitchen was updated in dove-gray cabinetry with a breakfast bar (galley-sized, on purpose; nobody was trying to turn a 1916 bungalow into a great room). Both bathrooms were redone with an actual point of view rather than a builder-grade refresh, and the primary bedroom got the same treatment. Central air and in-home laundry are in the house without announcing themselves, which is its own quiet flex for a place this old.
Outside
The backyard is the twist. On a roughly eight-thousand-square-foot lot, there’s a pool and a jacuzzi under mature trees, with enough room for a table where dinner runs long. A detached garage sits ready for whatever you need next: office, gym, ADU. Next door is Los Arcos Court, a 1921 Mission Revival bungalow court that tells you exactly what kind of block this is. Walk north and you hit McDonald Park, the green center of Bungalow Heaven, along with Lavender and Honey for coffee and Seed Bakery for sourdough people build their Saturday around. The Rose Bowl and Old Town are a short drive from a neighborhood built for walking.
The O' Factor
Old houses usually make you pick a side. The untouched ones have the fireplace and the built-ins but ask for a contractor on speed dial. The renovated ones are comfortable but sanded down until the character’s gone with the dust. This one didn’t get the memo. The 1916 bones, the fireplace, the built-ins, the bay window, are the genuine article, and the kitchen and bathrooms were updated by someone who understood what not to touch. Add a pool a Craftsman bungalow has no real business having, on one of the better blocks in a neighborhood built on this exact style, and you get a house with nothing left on the to-do list. That’s rare enough on its own. In Bungalow Heaven, it’s rare enough to move fast on.
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Proof is in the Properties
SOLD
Closed $200K over asking
SOLD
Closed for $1,589/sq ft
SOLD
Closed $250k over asking
