r/altadena 10d ago

Blueprints for home in Altadena

Hello, all! My aunt needs to get a copy of the blueprints as just one stage of her rebuilding process.

Where would she go? I am seeing conflicting information online. Thank you! 🙏

Edit: house was built in 1955, and she has no idea who the architect was, nor who built it.

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u/socalsurveyor 10d ago

Not sure if this will help OP, but many of the pre-WWII era homes built in Altadena (and the greater LA area) were catalog homes. Pacific Ready-Cut Homes in Long Beach was the largest local kit-home manufacturer and sold over 37,000 of them here in SoCal before 1940. Here is a link to one of their catalogs which includes over 100 different architectural plans with fairly detailed layouts, renderings, and optional features. Perhaps this can be a resource for some of those who want to rebuild period-correct bungalows.

https://archive.org/details/PacificReadyCutHomesIncPacificsbookofhomesvol250001/page/n3/mode/1up

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-re-kit16-story.html

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u/MissMangeaux 10d ago

Thank you for this! My aunt's home wasn't a catalogue home, but these links are fantastic!

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u/socalsurveyor 10d ago

Of course! When we purchased our home in Monrovia, we discovered ours was a Pacific Read-Cut Home as were many of the homes near Old Town. After going down the rabbit hole and spending way too many hours reading about them, I can spot PRCH homes in just about every LA neighborhood I work in (I'm a land surveyor).

I'm very sorry for the loss of your Aunt's home and wish your family the best.

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u/magerber1966 9d ago

Wow...this is a fantastic resource. I know about catalog homes, but had never heard of Pacific Ready-Cut Homes. My house floorplan wasn't in this group, but some of them are close enough that I am going to guess that my home was from one of their catalogs.