CC_10282025_10c_Exhibit1_Nomination — Glendale City Council, October 28, 2025

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13. ALTERATIONS AND DATES OF ALTERATIONS (based on building permits, physical analysis, oral information, see attached “Sources of Information” for obtaining City building permit records, attach additional pages in necessary):
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18. CRITERIA FOR INCLUSION IN THE GLENDALE REGISTER
In order to qualify for inclusion on the Glendale Register, the proposed resource must meet at least one of the following criteria.

Please explain how the proposed resource meets one or more of the following criteria. A proposed resource does not need to meet all criteria in order to qualify for the Glendale Register. However, if the proposed resource meets more than one criterion, please include all information in this application. If a criterion is inapplicable, indicate “Not Applicable”. Attach additional pages, if necessary. Identify the source from where the information was obtained and provide copies of any supporting information and documentation with this application.

CRITERION 1
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HE PROPOSED HISTORIC RESOURCE IDENTIFIED WITH IMPORTANT EVENTS IN NATIONAL ,

STATE, OR CITY HISTORY, OR DOES IT EXEMPLIFY SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BROAD

CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, OR HISTORIC HERITAGE OF THE NATION, STATE, OR CITY? IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE:
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IS THE PROPOSED HISTORIC RESOURCE ASSOCIATED WITH A PERSON, PERSONS, OR GROUPS WHO SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE HISTORY OF THE NATION, STATE, REGION, OR CITY? IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE:
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DOES THE PROPOSED HISTORIC RESOURCE EMBODY THE DISTINCTIVE AND EXEMPLARY

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE, ARCHITECTURAL TYPE, PERIOD, OR METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION; OR REPRESENT A NOTABLE WORK OF A MASTER DESIGNER, BUILDER OR ARCHITECT WHOSE GENIUS INFLUENCED HIS OR HER PROFESSION; OR POSSESS HIGH ARTISTIC VALUES? IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE:
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CRITERION 4

HAS THE PROPOSED HISTORIC RESOURCE YIELDED, OR HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO YIELD,

INFORMATION IMPORTANT TO ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRE-HISTORY OR HISTORY OF THE NATION, STATE, REGION, OR CITY? IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE:
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DOES THE PROPOSED HISTORIC RESOURCE EXEMPLIFY THE EARLY HERITAGE OF THE CITY? IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE:
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I Certify That I Am The Current Property Owner Of Record (Include All Owners):

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1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices

1 Appendix A: Glendale Register Addendum

1. Name: Mason House (proposed)

2. Address: 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale, CA 91208

3. APN: 5614-009-024

4. Legal Description: Tract 8055, Block 5, Lot 1

5. Owners: Jennifer McKenna Living Trust
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale, CA 91208

6. Present Use: Single-family residential
Original Use: Single-family residential

7. Architectural Style, Including Architectural Details and Character- Features
Built in 1930, the property at 1600 El Rito Avenue is a two story, single-family residence constructed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The building is situated on a rectangular parcel on the southeast corner of El Rito Avenue and Bonita Drive in the Verdugo Woodlands neighborhood of Glendale, California. The building sits on a concrete slab foundation and the lot slopes downward from El Rito Avenue to the south towards the rear yard. The entry to the building is at ground level from the north façade and the rear façade is elevated over a partial raised basement accessed by a series of exterior stairs and patios. The building has an irregularly shaped plan and is clad in stucco. It is capped by a multi-level combined hipped-and-gabled roof, with a conical roof on the turret, and a shed roof over the attached garage. The roofs are covered in barrel clay tiles and have exposed rafters and overhanging eaves.

The building features two exterior balconies, stained-glass windows, an entry turret, an enclosed west courtyard surrounded by loggia on two sides, and a landscaped front set back with mature sycamore and oak trees. The property is bounded by a low-lying stucco wall and the rear yard contains a patio, rectangular pool, and lawn. Notable wrought iron railings, original crystal
and a tiled interior fountain.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 2 The immediate neighborhood is primarily residential, characterized by single-family residences that are similar in style and scale to the subject property. Most of the homes surrounding the subject property were constructed in the 1920s and 1930s.

Spanish Colonial Revival Style
The Spanish Colonial Revival style was a popular architectural style in the Los Angeles region from 1912 to 1942, arising after the prominence of the Mission Style in the late- nineteenth and early- twentieth centuries. The 1915 Panama California Exposition in Spanish Colonial Revival style with the
showcase of several buildings of this type.1
The Spanish Colonial Revival was in
Architectural publications published multitudes of studies in the 1920s that encouraged the use of the style in Southern California. Architects, such as Richard Requa, who studied historic Spanish, Andalusian, Mexican, and Mediterranean buildings, declared the styles especially well-suited for Southern California’s climate.

The style is often characterized by a sprawling, asymmetrical arrangement; prominent arches above doors, windows, and principal entryways; and stucco siding. Low pitched and multi-level clay tile roofs; enclosed outdoors spaces, such as courtyards; the emphasis of three-dimensional design; incorporation of towers/turrets and balconies; decorative stucco and tile details; wrought-iron details; and fountains were also key design features.2
The style became a hallmark of Los Angeles regional architecture, and in the 1920s it became especially popular in suburban developments around the city and surrounding region. 3 Verdugo Woodlands particularly embraced the style and many Spanish 1 City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles City-Wide Historic Context Statement, Architecture and Engineering, 1850-1890:

Mediterranean and Indigenous Revival Architecture, 1893-1948, Los Angeles, California, November 2018, 14, https://planning.lacity.gov/odocument/097f6db5-feee-43f5-a448- fd140763de90/MediterraneanandIndigenousRevivalArchitecture_1893-1948.pdf. 2 City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles City-Wide Historic Context Statement, Architecture and Engineering, 1850-1890:

Alfred A. Knopf, 2022), 520-534.
3 City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles City-Wide Historic Context Statement, Architecture and Engineering, 1850-1890:

The subject property is the most fully expressed and intact of these houses. Other nearby examples of Spanish Colonial Revival style residences include 1609 El Rito Avenue, 1611 El Rito Avenue, 1618 El Rito Avenue, and 1634 El Rito Avenue.

Character-
Asymmetrical plan that emphasizes its three-dimensional massing with exterior loggia, enclosed courtyard, and balconies
Stucco exterior
Low-pitched, barrel clay tile roofs
Turret entryway
Arched primary wood entry door with arched stained glass casement window and painted detailing.

West courtyard enclosed by a low-lying curved stucco wall Arched loggia lining the courtyard on the west and north façades.

Mosaic in the west courtyard
Original wood-sash casement windows and openings across all facades Arched picture window on the primary façade
Original stained-glass windows (excluding the salvaged stained-glass windows on the 2nd west façade)
Wood doors and French doors with horizontal lites (note: glazing in living room doors was replaced with compatible beveled glass in the mid-1970s) Balconies on the primary and rear façades with square wood posts and railings.

Collection, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; “Spanish Type Of Homes To Be Erected,” Glendale Evening-News, June 12, 1926, Glendale Real Estate Collection, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices

4 Decorative stucco screens and tile vent detailing on the primary and secondary façades, turret and garage

8. Year Built: 1930

9. Original Architect: N/A

10. Original Builder: Claude Raymond Wardell, Wardell Engineering & Construction

11. Dates of Enclosed Photographs: April 2025

12. Square Footage: 3,411 sq. ft.

13. Alterations and Dates of Alterations:

Date Permit # Description of
Work
Owner
8/13/1920 1491 Application to build
a garage (prior
building on subject
parcel)
George D. Mason
3/24/1923 10427 Plumbing permit
(prior building on
subject parcel)
George D. Mason
9/16/1930 02120 Application to build
a ten-room
residence and
garage
George D. Mason
1976 N/A Plumbing permit Aivars Jerumanis
11/9/1992 N/A Electrical permit Aivars Jerumanis
11/1/2016 G-39-16 Right of Way
Excavation by Gas
Company
N/A
6/21/2023 BROOF-006818-
2023
Repair of existing
roof tile
1600 El Rito LLC
9/7/2023 BM-SFD-008877-
2023
Electrical permit 1600 El Rito LLC
9/19/2023 BSFD-007999-2023 Interior remodeling,
rewiring electrical,
plumbing re-piping,
replacing HVAC and
ducting, replacing
kitchen cabinets,
updating
bathrooms,
refinishing floors,
1600 El Rito LLC
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices

5 repatching and
painting
11/22/23 BSFD-009125-2023 Restoring the
existing covered
deck roof rafters
(rotten) · Replacing
the existing study
room (second floor)
roof rafters (rotten)
Replacing damaged
structure like to like,
no change to design
and no floor area
addition.
1600 El Rito LLC
1/19/2024 BW-008813-2023 Construction of new
pool and spa
1600 El Rito LLC
1/19/2024 BSFD-009710-2023 Restoring the
unpermitted
covered room to
original covered
balcony, replacing
existing study room
window with new
window to match
existing windows,
closing the existing
window in the
kitchen.
1600 El Rito LLC
Other Alterations
During the ownership of the Jerumanis Family from 1973 to 2023, several alterations were made including: conversion of the front balcony on the second story of the primary façade into an enclosed room (later reversed in 2023), replacement of window and door glazing in the living room with beveled glass, replacement of the windows on the second story of the west façade with stained glass windows salvaged from a neighboring property, replacement of a window at the east wall of the kitchen with a stained-glass window, conversion of the balcony on the west façade into an enclosed sunroom, creation of a crawl space within the turret accessed from the master bedroom, and installation of the wrought iron light 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices

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above the picture windows in the living room and in the dining room in the 1970s.5 From 2023-2024, 1600 El Rito Avenue LLC rehabilitated the building and restored many of the original features. Changes that occurred during this renovation included: repairing and reinstalling the existing clay tile roof and adding new underlayment, rebuilding the front balcony on the primary façade (converting the unpermitted room back into a balcony as it was originally), restoration/replacement of damaged wood rafters under the rear balcony and the sunroom, replacement of the garage doors, pouring a conc
non-original stained glass window from the east wall of the kitchen due to damage. Additionally, a previously replaced window at the second -kind. All historic windows
and doors were restored. The mosaic in the west courtyard was retained and new pavement was installed around it.

On the interior, the kitchen was remodeled extensively, and the attached bathroom was installed, replacing a closet/small room that previously housed the refrigerator. -and-jill bathroom shared between bedrooms 3 and 4
was reco
bedroom 3 was also converted into a bathroom. The showers and surrounds on the . All
of the historic oak, ch
remodeled to include an inground pool, concrete patio/stairs, and new landscaping.

The building’s utilities were upgraded with new electrical wiring, plumbing re-piping, and replacement of the HVAC system and ducting. The exterior and interior walls were patched and repainted. New concrete block fencing was added to the rear and east sides of the property.6

14. Is the Structure (check one) _X_on its original site ___moved ___Unknown 4 Brigita Jerumanis (former owner) in discussion with Groundwork Preservation,” April 14, 2025. 5 Brigita Jerumanis (former owner) in discussion with Groundwork Preservation,” April 14, 2025. 6 Pool Engineering, “1600 El Rito Ave Rehabilitation Architectural Plans,” by Todd Lacher, June 6, 2023, Courtesy of Jennifer McKenna and Alex Finkel.; “Founders,” ISQ Estate Development, accessed May 16, 2025, https://1sq.info/founders/?lang=en.

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9 18. Criterion for Inclusion in the Glendale Register
a. Criterion 1: N/A
b. Criterion 2: N/A
c. Criterion 3: Wardell Engineering & Construction built the subject property in 1930. The company was founded by Claude R. Wardell in 1922 and focused on single- to construct homes. The company also provided architectural plans to prospective home buyers and Wardell acted as a designer-builder. It is probable that Wardell not only served as the builder for 1600 El Rito Avenue, but also served as the building’s architect, creating the plans for the building in 1930. Claude R. Wardell was a successful designer-builder from 1922 to the early 1950s, designing over 4,000 residences in the Los Angeles region.

Wardell does not appear to be a master architect or builder.

The subject property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type and period as a fully expressed example of a Spanish Colonial Revival style residence in Glendale at the height of the style’s popularity in the early 1930s. The building also possesses high artistic value in its architectural detailing. The Spanish Colonial Revival style was a popular architectural style in the Los Angeles region from 1912 to 1942. The style became a hallmark of Los Angeles regional architecture, and in the 1920s it became especially popular in suburban developments around the city and surrounding region.
7 Verdugo Woodlands particularly
embraced the style and many Spanish Colonial Revival residences of various levels of architectural expression appeared in the neighborhood in the 1920s and 1930s. Several examples of Spanish Colonial Revival style houses are located on El Rito Avenue, including the three houses George Mason owned on tract 8055 (the subject property, 1608 El Rito Avenue and 2410 Bonita Drive). The subject property is the most fully expressed and intact of these houses.

The subject property displays numerous character-
a low-pitched and multi-level clay tile roof; a sprawling, asymmetrical plan arrangement that emphasizes its three-dimensional massing; stucco siding; an enclosed courtyard; and 7 City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles City-Wide Historic Context Statement, Architecture and Engineering, 1850-1890:

Mediterranean and Indigenous Revival Architecture, 1893-1948, Los Angeles, California, November 2018, 15, https://planning.lacity.gov/odocument/097f6db5-feee-43f5-a448- fd140763de90/MediterraneanandIndigenousRevivalArchitecture 1893-1948.pdf.; “Example of Spanish Architecture,” Glendale Evening-News, January 1, 1925, Glendale Houses 1920-1929 Folder, Glendale Houses Collection, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; “Spanish Type Of Homes To Be Erected,” Glendale Evening-News, June 12, 1926, Glendale Real Estate Collection, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 10 prominent arches above doors, windows, and principal entryways. The subject property also contains many of the more distinctive characteristics of the Spanish Colonial Revival style, including a turret, decorative balconies, decorative stucco and tile details, stained- glass windows, wrought-iron details, and a fountain in the interior of the building. As the property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a Spanish Colonial Revival style residence in Glendale during the height of the style’s popularity in the early 1930s and possesses high artistic values, the subject property is eligible for listing in the California and Glendale Register under Criterion 3.
d. Criterion 4: N/A
e. Criterion 5: N/A

19. Please list any Additional Facts Pertaining to the Property that Was Not Addressed above
Spanish
Colonial Revival residence was constructed.
1600 El Rito Avenue maintains a high level of integrity of location, design, setting, property under Glendale Register Criterion 3.

The building stands in its original location and retains integrity of location. maintains its original form, plan, spatial arrangement, structure, and major design elements that characterize it as a Spanish Colonial Revival style residence. These design elements include a low-pitched and multi-level clay tile roof; a sprawling, asymmetrical arrangement that emphasizes three-dimensional massing; courtyard and loggia; stucco siding; prominent arches above doors, windows, and principal entryways; turret entryway; two decorative balconies; decorative stucco and tile details; stained glass; wrought-iron details; and interior fountain. The enclosure of one of the original balconies on the west facade into a sunroom in the 1970s slightly diminished the integrity of the design and In 2023, the unpermitted enclosed
room on the front façade was reverted to its original use as an open balcony. The balcony was reconstructed using the same materials (stucco,
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices

11 the existing original balcony on the rear façade. The design and materials of the remodeled balcony are consistent with the Spanish Colonial Revival style of the building and these changes meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and improves the integrity of design. The removal and replacement of window and door glazing in several parts of the subject property, such as the beveled glass windows and doors in the living room and the stained- lar alterations that
remain consistent with the Spanish Colonial Revival design and do not diminish the overall integrity of the design of the subject property.

The setting of the building retains its original 1930s context, with surrounding properties remaining residential and largely designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival or other period revival styles. The properties directly adjacent to the subject property (1608 El Rito Avenue and 2410 Bonita Drive), were also owned and developed by George Mason and are notably extant and represent the subdivision and development of the tract by the original owner in the 1920s and 1930s.

The removal of some of the historic window and door glazing and replacement of the original garage doors somewhat diminish the integrity of materials. All of the materials Spanish Colonial
Revival style. The beveled glass installed in the windows and doors on the east and west facades, the paired wood-framed stained-
façade, and the stucco and wood railing used for the front façade balcony are all stylistically appropriate replacement materials that do not diminish the overall integrity of materials.

The subject property retains a high degree of workmanship, as it still conveys the physical evidence of the popularity and importance Spanish Colonial Revival style in Glendale and Southern California in the early twentieth century. Overall, the materials of the property remain largely intact and convey the crafts of the designer-builder who designed the ials such as the decorative
The subject property also retains a high integrity of feeling, as its original design as a Spanish Colonial Revival residential building continues to convey its expression of the aesthetics of the style at its height in the 1930s.

The subject property maintains integrity of association as an example of a Spanish Colonial Revival style residence in Glendale through the retention of its character- of the style and continual use of the property as a single-family residence. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 12 While the subject building has experienced some alterations to the design, materials, and workmanship --
example of a Spanish Colonial Revival style residence in Glendale under Criterion 3 for the of 1930.

This section provides a brief overview of the history of the site from its earliest development to the present day.

The subject property was originally plated in 1909 as lot 72, tract 250 out of a portion of the Teodora and Catalina Verdugo allotment in the Rancho San Rafael. The property was undeveloped land fronted by a seasonal stream and containing multiple sycamore and oaks trees, for which the Verdugo Woodlands neighborhood was known. The surrounding area was subdivided in 1917 as Selvas de Verdugo, also known as the Verdugo Woodlands subdivision , although the subject parcel was not included in the original subdivision. In 1920, George and Grace Mason purchased the lot on the corner of El Rito Avenue and Bonita Drive in Glendale and built a garden shed and garage (permitted in 1920) to serve as their temporary residence.8
“fairyland” estate with a lodge to house visitors amongst gardens and the numerous sycamore trees on the tract. At the time of the article, the Masons had constructed a tree planned to create sunken lily pond gardens around a weeping willow tree and build themselves a Mission Style residence. The Masons do not appear to have followed their original plans for the estate and in December 1923, Mason subdivided the lot into tract 8055: including three separate lots, the largest being lot 1 which contained the subject property and was addressed as 1600 El Rito Avenue.9
8 Los Angeles County, “Tract No. 8055,” Los Angeles County Public Works, December 1923, https://dpw.lacounty.gov/smpm/landrecords/tractmaps.aspx.; “Regular Fairyland Made For Verdugo Home,” Glendale Evening-News, April 6, 1921, Glendale Houses 1920-1929 Folder, Glendale Houses Collection, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.
9 “Regular Fairyland Made For Verdugo Home,” Glendale Evening-News, April 6, 1921, Glendale Houses 1920-1929 Folder, Glendale Houses Collection, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; City of Glendale, “Permit 1491,” August 13, 1920, City of Glendale Building & Safety Department.; Los Angeles County, “Tract No. 8055,” Los Angeles County Public Works, December 1923,
https://dpw.lacounty.gov/smpm/landrecords/tractmaps.aspx.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 16 Figure 6: Building Footprint of 1600 El Rito Avenue, original building permit, September 16, 1930, City of Glendale Building & Safety Department.

The Masons lived at 1600 El Rito Avenue from 1930 to 1933 when they sold the property to Harry Walton Renick. Mason moved to 2410 Bonita Drive, the neighboring house they owned directly south of the subject property. Renick lived in the subject property from 1933 to 1943 and sold the property to Charles White Henning in 1944. Lawrence A Lawson, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General, purchased the subject property from Henning in 1945.

Helen Lawson, Lawrence’s wife, sold the property Robert Feland in 1958 and continued to live in Glendale. In 1970, William D. Little, a real estate businessman, purchased 1600 El Rito Avenue. No permitted or documented alterations occurred to the property from its construction through the early 1970s.12 See the Owner/Occupant Biographies below for further biographical information on the owners described above. 12 Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1930, Los Angeles, CA, 1930, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1932, Los Angeles, CA, 1932, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1933, Los Angeles, CA, 1933, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1943, Los Angeles, CA, 1943, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1944, Los Angeles, CA, 1944, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1945, Los Angeles, CA, 1945, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.;

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 17 The property was sold to Aivars and Brigita Jerumanis in 1973. The Jerumanises lived at the 13 During their ownership of the property,
they made several alterations (see prior section for description of alterations). After Aivars passed away in 2023, Brigita sold the property to Hakob Avagyan.14 Hakob Avagyan, under 1600 El Rito Avenue LLC, renovated and restored the subject property from 2023 to 2024.

In 2024, 1600 El Rito LLC transferred ownership of the property to Jennifer McKenna, as trustee of the Jennifer McKenna Living Trust.15 Jennifer resides at the home with her husband, Alex Finkel, and their daughter. Following wind and tree fall damage caused by the Eaton Fire in 2025, the family undertook necessary repairs to the historic clay tile roof. bolting. As current stewards of the property, they are committed to its ongoing care, preservation, and responsible maintenance for generations to come.

This section provides a brief narrative description of the history of the surrounding neighborhood, and the builders and craftspeople associated with the property.

Early Settlement of North Glendale
Gabrieliño, who stewarded the land prior to European colonization. The Tongva population numbered approximately 5,000 people pre-contact and lived in approximately 50-100 towns and settlements on the mainland between Topanga Canyon in the Northwest, Mount Wilson to the north, San Bernardino to the east, Aliso Creek to the southeast and the Channel Islands to the west. The subject property is in the northern portion of present-day Glendale in the Crescenta Valley. This area lacked reliable year-round water resources, and Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1958, Los Angeles, CA, 1958, U.S. Directories Collection, 1822-1995, Ancestry.com.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1970, Los Angeles, CA, 1970, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Los Angeles County, “Deed,” July 6, 1973, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office, Document 319, Book D5935, Page 653.
13 Los Angeles County, “Deed,” July 6, 1973, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office, Document 319, Book D5935, Page 653.; Los Angeles County, “Deed #0367989,” June 6, 2023, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office.
14 Brigita Jerumanis (former owner) in discussion with Groundwork Preservation,” April 14, 2025.; Los Angeles County, “Deed #0367989,” June 6, 2023, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office.; Pool Engineering, “1600 El Rito Ave Rehabilitation Architectural Plans,” by Todd Lacher, June 6, 2023, Courtesy of Jennifer McKenna and Alex Finkel.; “Founders,” ISQ Estate Development, accessed May 16, 2025, https://1sq.info/founders/?lang=en.
15 Los Angeles County, “Deed #0657886,” September 19, 2024, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office.
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 18 it is unlikely that permanent settlements were in the area. However, due to seasonal streams and the presence of oaks trees, it is likely that the Tongva Indians came to the valley to hunt and forage.16
Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, passed through Southern California in 1542. Extensive Catholic missionary expeditions began a period of extensive contact between the California Indians and Europeans in the 1770s. The establishment of Mission San Gabriel de Archangel in 1771 and Mission San Fernando Rey de España in 1797 in the Glendale area transformed both the physical and cultural landscape. The introduction of grazing animals such as cattle and sheep transformed the region’s environment, and the Tongva people around Glendale were drawn into the oppressive system of Catholic conversion and Hispanic acculturation of the Missions. The majority of the Tongva people in this area were drawn into Mission San Gabriel, 17
In 1784, Jose Maria Verdugo, a Spanish soldier stationed at Mission San Gabrielino, acquired grazing livestock and was granted the 36,000-acre Rancho San Rafael land grant, one of the largest ever granted by the Spanish Crown. Rancho San Rafael contained present day Glendale and North Glendale, including the area where the subject property is located. Verdugo retired from the army in 1797 and raised livestock and farmed grain, red peppers, fruit, and grapes. He also made wine on his land after Mexican Independence from Spain in 1821. Tongva labor supported Verdugo’s farming operations.18 Around 1828, Verdugo’s grandson, Teodoro Verdugo, built the Catalina Verdugo Adobe at 2211 Bonita Drive less than a quarter of a mile west of the subject property and one of the oldest properties in Glendale.19 When Verdugo passed away in 1831, he passed the property to his children, Julio and Catalina. The property ownership of the area around the subject in Los Angeles, was granted the 12,000-acre Rancho La Cañada. Coronel’s rancho bordered Rancho San Rafael to the north, and both ranchos appear to encompass parts of the present-day Verdugo Woodlands neighborhood. The subject property was located along the border of the two
16 City of Glendale, North Glendale Historic Context, Glendale, California, November 19, 2011, 5. 17 City of Glendale, North Glendale Historic Context, Glendale, California, November 19, 2011, 6. 18 Katherine Peters Yamada, “Still Standing After All of These Years,” The Glendale Historical Society, accessed May 15, 2025, https://glendalehistorical.org/still-standing-1. 19 City of Glendale, North Glendale Historic Context, Glendale, California, November 19, 2011, 6-7.; “Catalina Verdugo Adobe,” City of Glendale, accessed May 15, 2025, https://www.glendaleca.gov/government/departments/community-services-parks/parks-facilities-historic- sites/catalina-verdugo-adobe-main#ad-image-0.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 22 Figure 9: Section of the Glendale Annexation Map, Ca. 1986, Los Angeles Assessor’s Office. Location of property indicated by red arrow.

Figure 10: Newspaper advertisement for Verdugo Woodlands, June 22, 1917, Morning Tribune, Newspapers.com.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 23 Builder Biography: Claude Raymond Wardell
Claude Raymond Wardell, the builder of 1600 El Rito Avenue, was born in 1896 in Iowa.

Prior to his military service in 1918 in World War I, Wardell worked for a construction company in Iowa. At some point in his early adulthood, Wardell studied architecture and engineering. By 1922, Wardell moved to the Los Angeles region and married Jessie Caroline Aitken. The couple had one child.28
Wardell worked as an automobile mechanic in Los Angeles until he founded his construction company, Wardell Engineering & Construction, in 1922. Wardell Engineering & Construction Company was a successful construction company active in the Los Angeles region from 1922 to the early 1950s. The company focused on single-family residence homes on lots already owned by its clients. The company also provided architectural plans to prospective home buyers and Wardell acted as a designer-builder. It is probable that Wardell not only served as the builder for 1600 El Rito Avenue, but also served as the building’s architect, creating the plans for the building in 1930. 29 Wardell stated in 1950 that his company had built 4,000 houses since 1922. Wardell expanded his construction company to include larger projects, including the Bill Mooney Square Dance Ranch in Glendora, California in 1950. Wardell lived in Glendale through 1940, and by 1950 had moved to Arcadia, California. After he retired in ca. 1950, Wardell constructed, operated, and served as a dance instructor for The Palms Dance Hall in Glendora, California starting in 1953. Wardell passed away in Filmore, California in 1973.30 28 “Claude Raymond Wardell Birth Certificate,” Byron, Iowa, August 26, 1896, Iowa, U.S., Births (series) 1880-1904, 1921-1944 and Delayed Births (series), 1856-1940, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61441/records/164565.; “Claude Wardell World War I Draft Card,” Buchanan County, Iowa, June 5, 1918, U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6482/records/29133048.; “Wardell Builds And Completely Finances Homes,” Daily News, June 19, 1926, Newspapers.com.; “Wardell – Aitken,” The Courier, July 21, 1922, Newspapers.com.; 1940 United States Federal Census, Glendale, California, April 4, 1940, 1940 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com,
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/records/71558201. 29 “Wardell – Aitken,” The Courier, July 21, 1922, Newspapers.com.; “Wardell Builds And Completely Finances Homes,” Daily News, June 19, 1926, Newspapers.com.
30 “$100,000 Ranch Project Slated,” The Los Angeles Times, July 23, 1950, Newspapers.com.; 1950 United States Federal Census, Glendale, California, April 6, 1950, 1950 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62308/records/259543785.; “He’s Made Hobby A Full-Time Job,” Daily News-Post, August 5, 1955, Newspapers.com.; “Child, Adult Dance Classes To Start Here,” Santa Ynez Valley News, February 7, 1964, Newspapers.com.
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 24 Figure 11: Newspaper clipping advertising a Wardell Engineering & Construction Co. home, July 19, 1926, Daily News, Newspapers.com.

Figure 12: Newspaper clipping showing the concept drawings for the Bill Mooney Square Dance Ranch, July 23, 1950, The Los Angeles Times, Newspapers.com.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 25 The Batchelder Tile Company
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molded and painted tiles by the Batchelder Tile Company. The Batchelder Tile Company was based in Pasadena, California and was active from 1909-1932. Founder Ernest Allan Batchelder was born in 1875 in New Hampshire and studied art at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston in 1899; the Harvard Summer School of Design under Denman Ross, a designer for Dedham Pottery; and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in Birmingham, England. In 1901, Batchelder moved to Pasadena, California and taught manual arts instruction at Throop Polytechnic Institute, now the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he became Art Director. From 1905 to 1908 he also taught at the Handcraft Guild in Minneapolis during the summers.
31 In 1909, Batchelder bought land and built an art studio in Pasadena where he began teaching and producing hand-molded, painted tiles that grew in popularity. In 1912, he &
-Wilson with new business partner Lucien H.
people by 1925.32
fauna - – castles, country scenes, and Mayan,
s, fountains,
th century.

Architectural advertisements for early 20th century properties in Glendale advertise Batchelder tile features, a nod to their popularity during this period.33 Not only were region, including in Pasadena, Burbank, Glendale, and Altadena, they were also featured at 216 W. 6th Street.34
31 Norman Karlson, American Art Tile, 1876-1941 (New York: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc., 1998), 157. 32 Norman Karlson, American Art Tile, 1876-1941 (New York: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc., 1998), 157. 33 “Pasadena Real-Estate Auction,” Pasadena Star-News, September 20, 1924, Newspapers.com.; “Beautiful New Wilshire Home,” The Los Angeles Times, November 12, 1923, Newspapers.com. 34 Norman Karlson, American Art Tile, 1876-1941 (New York: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc., 1998), 157- 158.
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 26 Figure 13: Example Batchelder tile designs, American Art Tile 1876-1941 by Norman Karlson.

Figure 14: Batchelder Tiles at 1600 El Rito Avenue, fireplace in living room. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025) continued pottery in his own studio, Kinneloa Kiln, until 1949. He married pianist Alice

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 27 Coleman and founder of the Coleman Chamber Music Association in 1912 and had one son. Batchelder passed away in 1957.35
Owner/Occupant Biographies
George D. Mason was born in 1871 in Vermont, and married Mary Orkins in New Hampshire in 1898. The couple moved to Maine by 1903, and sometime before 1910 the pair divorced.

Mason moved to the Los Angeles region and remarried Grace (nee Franklin) by 1910, and designed and built several mausoleums in Inglewood, Santa Maria, and Monrovia in the 1910s. Mason also operated a root beer store in San Pedro for several years in the 1910s alongside his mausoleum design business. Mason lived in Monrovia, California in 1915 and Glendale throughout the 1930s and 1940s. In 1937 he helped design the National Register of Historic Places nominated Morris Hill Mausoleum in Idaho. By 1950, he settled in Santa Ana Orange County, and he passed away in 1958.36
35 Norman Karlson, American Art Tile, 1876-1941 (New York: Michael Friedman Publishing Group, Inc., 1998), 157- 158.
36 Bureau of the Census, 1880 United States Federal Census, Brookfield, Vermont, June 1, 1880, 1880 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com,
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6742/records/22461291.; “George D. Mason,” January 10, 1898, New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637-1947, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2554/records/157222.; Bureau of the Census, 1910 United States Federal Census, Los Angeles, California, April 21, 1910, 1910 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/records/1166657.; “Expert On Mausoleums Will Make Home Here,” Monrovia Daily News, June 7, 1915, Newspapers.com.; “Buy Root Beer Store,” News-Pilot, November 4, 1920, Newspapers.com.; Bureau of the Census, 1930 United States Federal Census, Glendale, California, April 14, 1930, 1930 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/6224/records/89637005.; 1940 United States Federal Census, Glendale, California, April 8, 1940, 1930 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/records/71585917.; 1940 United States Federal Census, Glendale, California, April 8, 1940, 1940 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2442/records/71585917.; “Concrete Poured For Mausoleum On Morris Hill,” The Idaho Statesman, November 6, 1937, Newspapers.com.; 1950 United States Federal Census, Santa Ana, California, April 12, 1950, 1950 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62308/records/259737758.; “George David Mason,” February 4, 1958, California, U.S., Death Index, 1940-1997, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5180/records/4673713. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 28 Figure 15: Newspaper article on George Mason’s move to Monrovia, California, June 7, 1915, Monrovia Daily News, Newspapers.com.

Harry Walton Renick, a Los Angeles businessman, purchased the subject property from George Mason in 1933. Renick was born in Colorado in 1889 and worked as a brake and railroad supplies salesman. In 1910, he moved to California and conducted business in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and in 1911 he married Olga (nee Adams). The pair had one child. While in Los Angeles he became a prominent businessman in the railroad industry.

He specialized in track and signal design, and his principles became standard across California railroad design during his lifetime. He established his own frog and switch company that manufactured steel railroad parts, which later merged with the larger Elliot Frog & Switch Company and American Brake Shoe Company. He later became Vice President of the American Brake Shoe Company and founder and President of the Magnetic Signal company, where he pioneered wigwag signals now standard at railroad crossings.

Renick was also an active member of several social clubs in the Los Angeles region. Renick lived at the subject property from 1933 to 1943 and sold the property to Charles White Henning in 1944. Renick passed away in 1951.37
37 Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1933, Los Angeles, CA, 1933, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; 1910 United States Federal Census, Denver, Colorado, April 21, 1910, 1910 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7884/records/134709768.; “Harry W Renick,” Los Angeles, California, August 17, 1911, California, U.S., County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61460/records/900486978.; “Renick Rites To Be Held Tomorrow,” Progress-Bulletin, August 27, 1951, Newspapers.com.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1944, Los Angeles, CA, 1944, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 29 Charles White Henning, a salesman, purchased the subject property from Harry Renick in 1944. Henning was born in 1910 in Haskell, New Jersey and as a child he grew up in Delaware where his father, Clarence I. B. Henning, worked as an internationally known munitions expert. By 1937, he returned to California and married Rosal (nee Bloom) in Berkeley. By 1940 he lived in Glendale and worked for the Carbide and Carbon Chemical Corporation. Henning owned and lived in 1600 El Rito Avenue for only a year before selling it to Lawrence Lawson in 1945. In 1950, Henning lived in Pennsylvania and worked for a synthetic organic chemicals company as a salesman and had one child. Henning passed away in Santa Barbara, California in 1982.
38 Lawrence Augustus Lawson, a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General, purchased the subject property from Henning in 1945. Lawson was born in 1896 in Menominee, Michigan, and his family migrated to Glendale in his youth. His family is noted to be a “pioneer family” of early Glendale, and his brother served as a city council member in the city. He enlisted as a second lieutenant in the Aviation Section, of the Signal Reserve Corps 1918. He moved across the country to various military bases in multiple states from the late 1910s to the early 1940s and was promoted several times. During with the Tenth Army at Okinawa. In October
1945, he became Commanding General of the Okinawa Base Command (OBASCOM) and Military Governor of the Ryukyo Islands. During his long service, he earned the Distinguished Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, World War I Victory Medal, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic- Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Army of Occupation Medal (Japan). He married his wife Helen (nee De Laine) in 1931 while living at a military base in Virginia and the pair had one daughter. After returning from the Army in World War II, he moved back to Glendale and 38 “Charles White Henning World War II Draft Card,” Glendale, California, October 16, 1940, U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Ancestry.com,
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2238/records/17680369.; “Henning, World War Munitions Authority, Dead,” Oakland Tribune, January 6, 1939, Newspapers.com.; “Miss Rosal Bloom To Wed Friday,” Oakland Tribune, November 10, 1937, Newspapers.com.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1945, Los Angeles, CA, 1945, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; 1950 United States Federal Census, Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, April 8, 1950, 1950 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62308/records/235872525.; “Charles Henning,” March 1982, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014, Ancestry.com,
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/3693/records/27011422. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 30 purchased the subject property. He also owned a citrus orchard near Porterville. In October 1951, Lawson committed suicide in the garage of 1600 El Rito Avenue.39 After her husband’s death, Helen Lawson continued to live in 1600 El Rito Avenue from 1952 to 1958. Helen was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1899. Helen moved to Glendale in her youth, where she met Lawrence Lawson. The pair married in Virginia in 1931 during his military service and she returned to Glendale in the 1940s with her husband and worked as a housewife. Lawson sold the property Robert Feland in 1958 and continued to live in Glendale. She passed away in Glendale in 1997 at 97 years old. 40 Robert Farris Feland purchased the subject property from Helen Lawson in 1958. Feland was born in 1917 in Phoenix, Arizona, and lived there until 1941. In 1941, he married Nadine Riggs, and later that year the pair moved to Los Angeles and had one son. In the 1950 Census, Feland was listed as an electrical wholesale salesman. In 1966, he established the International X-Ray Company with his brother Thomas, who also lived at the subject property. No further information about Feland was uncovered during research.

Feland stopped living at the subject property in 1969.41 In 1970, William D., Little, a real estate businessman, purchased 1600 El Rito Avenue. Little was a foreclosure expert and bought hundreds of foreclosed houses in the Los Angeles area in the 1970s and 1980s, so it is possible that he bought 1600 El Rito Avenue on 39 “Brigadier General Lawrence Augustus Lawson,” Air Force, accessed May 19, 2025, https://www.af.mil/About- Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2966687/lawrence-augustus-lawson/.; “Owner Of Local Citrus Property Dies In Glendale,” Porterville Recorder, October 30, 1951, Newspapers.com.; “Helen Delaine,” District of Colombia, USA, September 7, 1931, District of Columbia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1810-1953, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61404/records/900213540.; “Retired General Commits Suicide,” Valley Times, October 29, 1951, Newspapers.com.
40 Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1952, Los Angeles, CA, 1952, U.S. Directories Collection, 1822-1995, Ancestry.com.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1958, Los Angeles, CA, 1958, U.S. Directories Collection, 1822-1995, Ancestry.com.; “Lawson, Helen D.,” The Los Angeles Times, January 7, 1997, Newspapers.com.; 1950 United States Federal Census, Glendale, California, April 13, 1950, 1950 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62308/records/257481185. 41 Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1958, Los Angeles, CA, 1958, U.S. Directories Collection, 1822-1995, Ancestry.com.; “Robert Farris Feland Birth Certificate,” Phoenix, Arizona, April 1, 1917, Arizona, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1880-1935, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8703/records/33126.; “Church Rites Set Today,” The Arizona Republic, May 11, 1941, Newspapers.com.; 1950 United States Federal Census, Signal Hill, Los Angeles, California, April 5, 1950, 1950 United States Federal Census Collection, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/62308/records/264675499.; “Certificate of Business Fictitious Name,” The Daily Breeze, May 18, 1966, Newspapers.com. Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1969, Los Angeles, CA, 1969, U.S. Directories Collection, 1822-1995, Ancestry.com. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 31 and pricing people out of neighborhoods. The subject property was vacant during Little’s ownership. Little sold the subject property to Aivars and Brigita Jerumanis in 1973.42 1973 to 2023. Aivars and Brigita were born in Latvia in 1938 and 1939 respectively. Both immigrated to the United States with their families, Aivars in 1951 and Brigita in 1949, after being displaced due to Soviet occupation during World War II and settled in New York. The pair married in 1965 in Brooklyn, New York and were involved in the activism promoting the independence of Baltic States from the Soviet Union. By 1973, the couple moved to Glendale, California and purchased 1600 El Rito Avenue. They remained an active part of the Latvian and larger Baltic community, and Aivars was a co-founder of the Baltic American Freedom League in 1981. While living at 1600 El Rito Avenue, Aivars served as both Vice President of Maxicare Health Plans and as the honorary Latvian Consul from 1987 to 1996. While Aivars position was honorary in the 1980s, his role became more viet Union and renewed push for
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ran for President of the newly independent Latvia.43
42 Los Angeles County, “Deed,” July 6, 1973, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office, Document 319, Book D5935, Page 653.; Frederick M. Muir, “He Reigns Over the ’40 Thieves’ Of L.A.’s Foreclosed Real Estate,” The Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1987, Los Angeles Times (1923-1995) Collection, Los Angeles Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1970, Los Angeles, CA, 1970, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1971, Los Angeles, CA, 1971, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.; Polk’s Glendale City Directory 1972, Los Angeles, CA, 1972, Glendale History Room, Glendale Public Library.
43 Los Angeles County, “Deed,” July 6, 1973, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office, Document 319, Book D5935, Page 653.; Los Angeles County, “Deed #0367989,” June 6, 2023, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office.; “Brigita Zurnis,” August 31, 1949, Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971, Ancestry.com,
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/records/1488364.; “Aivars Jerumanis,” March 30, 1951, Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61704/records/1678266.; “Aivars Jerumanis,” Brooklynn, New York City, New York, 1965, New York, New York, U.S., Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61406/records/3115642.; Baltic American Freedom League – BAFL, “In Memorium post for Aivars Jerumanis,” Facebook, May 9, 2023, https://www.facebook.com/BAFLorg/posts/today-we-said-goodbye-to-one-of-bafls-greats-aivars-jerumanis- aivars-was-one-of-/519537847023136/.; Michael Szymanski, “Symbols of Freedom: The Baltic States’ Drive for Independence Has Places the Regions’ Honorary Consuls Here in L.A. Firmly in the Diplomatic Spotlight,” The Los Angeles Times, August 15, 1990, Newspapers.com.; United States Department of State, “Foreign Consular Offices in the United States,” Washington D.C., Revised February 1988, 53, Hathi Trust, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c44093&seq=1&q1=%221600+el+rito%22.; United States Department of State, “Foreign Consular Offices in the United States,” Washington D.C., Revised March 1996, 43, 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices

32 the United States. The Jerumanises made several alterations to the subject property while they lived there as previously described. After Aivars passed away in 2023 Brigita sold the property to Hakob Avagyan and moved to a property across Bonita Drive.44

Hathi Trust, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035352189&seq=61&q1=%221600+el+rito%22.; “Latvian parliament picks president,” The Republican, July 8, 1993, Newspapers.com. 44 United States Department of State, “Foreign Consular Offices in the United States,” Washington D.C., Revised February 1988, 53, Hathi Trust,
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c44093&seq=1&q1=%221600+el+rito%22.; United States Department of State, “Foreign Consular Offices in the United States,” Washington D.C., Revised March 1996, 43, Hathi Trust, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015035352189&seq=61&q1=%221600+el+rito%22.; Brigita Jerumanis (former owner) in discussion with Groundwork Preservation,” April 14, 2025.; Los Angeles County, “Deed #0367989,” June 6, 2023, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office. 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 33 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 34 1.100-
acre

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 35 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 36 1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 38 :
1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 39 Subject property from corner of El Rito Avenue and Bonita Drive, facing southeast. (Jo David, 2025).

Subject property from Bonita Drive facing east. ( Jo David, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 40 North (primary) façade and entry turret, facing south. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 41 North (primary) façade entry turret, facing south. (Jo David, 2025).

Photograph of the Jerumanis family and the primary facade of 1600 El Rito Avenue, ca. late 1970s, Courtesy of Brigita Jerumanis.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 42 North (primary) façade and entry door, facing south. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 43 Entry door, stained glass window from interior, facing north. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

Entryway, stained glass window from interior, facing southeast. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 44 Stained glass windows, Sitting Room from interior, facing west. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

North façade, facing south. (Jo David, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 45 West façade, courtyard, loggia and balcony, facing southeast. (Jo David, 2025).

West courtyard loggia and

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 46 West courtyard loggia looking east. (Alex Finkel, 2025).

West courtyard loggia, ca. 1973, Courtesy of Brigita Jerumanis.

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 47 West courtyard loggia, facing northwest. (Jo David, 2025).

West courtyard loggia, facing southwest. (Jo David, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 48 West courtyard mosaic detail. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

View from the Front Balcony, facing northwest. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 49 West façade and sunroom at 2nd facing east. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

South façade and rear balcony, facing north. (Jo David, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 50 entry doors, facing northwest. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

South (left), east (right) façades and rear yard, facing northwest. (Jo David, 2025).

1600 El Rito Avenue, Glendale Register of Historic Resources Appendices 51 View from the rear balcony, facing southeast. (Alex Finkel, 2025).

East façade, facing west. (Groundwork Preservation, 2025).

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