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The English Tudor Seibert house is featured on the mansions tour.

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A Mediterranean villa, an informal hacienda, an English country house and an English estate--all built by prominent architects in Pasadena between 1912 and 1925--will be featured in the Pasadena Heritage Mansions Tour on Sunday.

All four homes demonstrate the influence of Mediterranean and English styles on Southern California architecture in the early 20th Century, Pasadena Heritage officials said.

The W. S. Morse house, built in 1919 by Reginald Johnson, was one of the earliest interpretations of “plain” Mediterranean architecture, a style that was just gaining popularity at the time. The stucco home is designed in a U shape around a patio, with a blank facade except for decorative cast stone concentrated near the entrance.

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Built in 1925, the W. D. Edwards House was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by Roland Coate. Set on two acres

of orange groves and gardens, this hacienda is an informal residence. According to Pasadena Heritage, the owners are trying to sell it but do not want the buyer to make radical changes to its design.

The 1912 English Tudor house built by Myron Hunt (architect of the Huntington Memorial Library in San Marino) for Amelia Seibert has an interesting feature: a pool table that was brought in with a crane before the roof was added, and cannot be removed.

The fourth house is an English estate built in 1922 by Marston & Van Pelt. Among its features are a steeply pitched shake roof, a massive Gothic arch and multi-paned, shuttered windows.

The homes will be open Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The cost is $18 per person, $15 for Pasadena Heritage members. For reservations, call 818-793-0617, or purchase tickets Sunday at 1199 S. El Molino Avenue, Pasadena.

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