411 E. Olive Ave.
KNOWN DETAILS
The house is a two-story Craftsman house with a steeply pitched roof and one front-facing gable and one side-facing gable. The exterior siding on the first floor is clapboard, as is the side-facing gable. The front-facing gable is sided with wood shingles. There is a shed-roof dormer, facing the street, that has a small pair three-over-one double-hung sash windows and clapboard siding. Other roof elements include the typical Craftsman elements of exposed rafter tails and overhanging eaves.
The front door is quite beautiful and most likely original. However, the position of the door is not original. As one can see by the picture, the door is offset from the stairs leading up to it. Craftsman-style houses from this period almost have the front door centered on the front door steps, and the front door opened directly into the living room. I believe the position of the door and picture changing out of the windows were done when there was a major remodel of the front room. The porch is supported by two sets of rectangular pillars. The 2004 report does not mention the river rock stone pedestals, and they can’t be seen at all in the report’s accompanying picture. The river rocks are not worn, chipped, or stained; consequently, I believe they may have replaced what was originally there or they may have been added fairly recently. However, there are no permits for any stonework at any time. There is an iron porch railing which is also not mentioned in the 2004 report.
The house is a two-story Craftsman house with a steeply pitched roof and one front-facing gable and one side-facing gable. The exterior siding on the first floor is clapboard, as is the side-facing gable. The front-facing gable is sided with wood shingles. There is a shed-roof dormer, facing the street, that has a small pair three-over-one double-hung sash windows and clapboard siding. Other roof elements include the typical Craftsman elements of exposed rafter tails and overhanging eaves.
Description
This property has a long history of ownership which makes it difficult to say which person was the original landowner: Mission San Gabriel? Andreas de Duarte? J.D. Bicknell or Thomas Wardall? For information on Mission San Gabriel and Adreas de Duarte, see the entry for Rancho Azusa de Duarte in the Subdivision Category. For information on John D. Bicknell, see Addition No 2 to the Monrovia Tract. Because the last subdivision of the property was by Thomas Wardall, he will be the designated.
The first owner of the house was Montague Graham. By 1913, many of the empty lots in the subdivision had been filled in with houses. The footprint of the house at 411 house with the original porch can be seen. There is no garage or stable on the property.
By 1927, the Graham family have a garage backing up to the alley, but there or no other changes made to the exterior of the house.
The house is a two-story Craftsman house with a steeply pitched roof and one front-facing gable and one side-facing gable. The exterior siding on the first floor is clapboard, as is the side-facing gable. The front-facing gable is sided with wood shingles. There is a shed-roof dormer, facing the street, that has a small pair three-over-one double-hung sash windows and clapboard siding. Other roof elements include the typical Craftsman elements of exposed rafter tails and overhanging eaves.