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The Design Review Board of the City of Glendale has approved a project to build a 7,562 SF single-family home with two attached two-car garages for a total of over 8,500 SF of structure basically in the backyard of the Ard Eevin historic residence. The scale of the new project is more than double the size of any home in the neighborhood and is incompatible with the terraine and character of the neighborhood. The Ard Eevin Historic District borders the proposed home.
The money being raised will support the fee ($2,000) to submit the appeal to the City of Glendale, CA, the retainment of a land use attorney to draft the appeal and present it to the Glendale City Council, and the hiring of an architectural resource and historic resource to provide additional supporting documentation.
The appeal must be filed by April 28, 2017.
A group of neighborhood residents along with the Northwest Glendale Homeowner's Association is supporting the effort to reduce the scale of the proposed new home. We would gratefully appreciate any contribution you are willing to make.
If we lose the appeal, precedence for more "out of character" homes will be established and our beautiful historic neighborhood will be threatened. A domino effect could ensue.
The Ard Eevin residence, a national register property, is a single-family house built in 1903 and has been in continuous use as a residence. The home was designed using a mixed style of Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and
“West Indies Plantation” style design elements.
The Ard Eevin residence is one of several “Country Estate” homes constructed at the base of what were then the rural foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. This style of residence characterized housing developments in the outskirts of Northwest Glendale at the turn of the
century. The better known example of the local Country Estate, and the complimenting house to the Ard Eevin, is “El Miradero,” constructed a year after the Ard Eevin for Leslie Brand. El Miradero, a National Register property, is currently the Brand Arts Library, and is operated by the City of Glendale. El Miradero and Ard Eevin were both designed by Nathaniel Dryden, the brother in law of Leslie Brand. Both house designs are non-conformist translations of Period Revival styles.
The money being raised will support the fee ($2,000) to submit the appeal to the City of Glendale, CA, the retainment of a land use attorney to draft the appeal and present it to the Glendale City Council, and the hiring of an architectural resource and historic resource to provide additional supporting documentation.
The appeal must be filed by April 28, 2017.
A group of neighborhood residents along with the Northwest Glendale Homeowner's Association is supporting the effort to reduce the scale of the proposed new home. We would gratefully appreciate any contribution you are willing to make.
If we lose the appeal, precedence for more "out of character" homes will be established and our beautiful historic neighborhood will be threatened. A domino effect could ensue.
The Ard Eevin residence, a national register property, is a single-family house built in 1903 and has been in continuous use as a residence. The home was designed using a mixed style of Colonial Revival, Craftsman, and
“West Indies Plantation” style design elements.
The Ard Eevin residence is one of several “Country Estate” homes constructed at the base of what were then the rural foothills of the Verdugo Mountains. This style of residence characterized housing developments in the outskirts of Northwest Glendale at the turn of the
century. The better known example of the local Country Estate, and the complimenting house to the Ard Eevin, is “El Miradero,” constructed a year after the Ard Eevin for Leslie Brand. El Miradero, a National Register property, is currently the Brand Arts Library, and is operated by the City of Glendale. El Miradero and Ard Eevin were both designed by Nathaniel Dryden, the brother in law of Leslie Brand. Both house designs are non-conformist translations of Period Revival styles.