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Highland Park CA homes for sale - 942 Montecito Drive

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Highland Park CA homes for sale - 942 Montecito Drive

Trendy Montecito Heights Hillside Tri-level with Spectacular views!! Entertainers delight!! The Main floor features a spacious living room, kitchen and 1/2 bath. 2nd level offers 3/4 bath and workout room or office. Step down into the 3rd level that features 3 bedrooms and a full bath. Main bedroom has private entrance to outside walkway leading to the oversized deck, stunning views!! Adjacent lot also included - approx. sq. ft. 3398. Close to Old Town Pasadena, Downtown, with easy access to Hollywood.

$505,000...

Montecito Heights is known by the locals as "Wilderness in the City." Check out this new listing in Montecito Heights.

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Highland Park CA homes for sale - 942 Montecito Drive

Like Highland Park, the Artists community has been drawn to Montecito Heights. Why? Because it's a cool little hideout community that very few know about...

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Highland Park CA homes for sale - 942 Montecito Drive

Click for more info on Montecito Heights History.  Below are excerpts from..Montecito Heights Improvement Association...Montecito Heights History in Brief and ...Highland Park Artists....Montecito Heights.  Read about...Jackson Browne.

"...Intrigued by the pragmatic and graceful Arts and Crafts style, free-thinking students came from all over the west and created a nurturing community of artists and writers. This artisan and intellectual community still thrives today. Because of this richness of artists and works, the Arroyo Arts Collective and the Historical Society of Southern California sponsor an annual "Museums of the Arroyo Discovery Tour" that highlights the local art and architecture for this and neighboring communities. Over fifty local artists participate each year in the event, now in its sixth year.


The Abbey San Encino, built by the famous letterpress printer Clyde Browne.
One of the more interesting characters to take up residence in Highland Park during the emergence of the Arts & Crafts era was Clyde Browne. Browne spent a decade building the Abbey San Encino, a lovely neo-Franciscan structure where he envisioned an arts collective comprised of the best printers, bookbinders, and graphic artists of his day, all of them living and working together under one roof. Boasting a tile fireplace designed by the legendary Ernest Batchelder, the Abbey must have been inspiring indeed. If such a dream can be measured by the accomplishments of its alumni, Clyde Browne was successful indeed - the Abbey was the childhood home of Jackson Browne, the incredibly talented musician whose songwriting defined American pop.

Montecito Heights itself began as a development in 1910. The developers envisioned the planned and affluent suburb they named Montecito Hills as groups of gracious houses placed on large lots surrounding a magnificent hilltop hotel. The company went bankrupt along with the rest of the country in 1929, and the hotel was never built. But many Montecito Heights residents still enjoy the legacy of the developers' vision, and delight in their spacious oversized lots, a rare luxury in any large city. Others have profited by becoming micro-developers and building second houses on their large tracts..."

Check out these views...Highland Park CA homes for sale - 942 Montecito Heights

Spectacular Views

What would I love to see in Montecito Heights?

It would be awsome to open a little Cafe or Coffee Shop on Griffin.  Some place for the locals to hang out.  Check out Debs Park


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Highland Park CA homes for sale - 942 Montecito Drive

 


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