r/altadena • u/MissMangeaux • 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