South Pasadena Preservation Foundation

03/23/2025

One tile at a time...

The volunteer group give an update six weeks after they began recovering historic tiles from burned Altadena homes.

03/13/2025

Save the date! MOTA'25

12/05/2024

Stop by for cookies and cider. Happy Holidays!

10/01/2024

www.sppreservation.org for tickets...
Our events always sell out, don't delay.

09/22/2024

Tickets at https://sppreservation.org

SPPF is proud to present a talk from historian Becky Nicolaides based on her book, The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945. Becky is well known for her work in urban history, and her work in this book touches all of us who grew up locally in the second half of the 20th century, as well as those who, today, are trying to understand the particular suburban demographics of older, close-in communities such as South Pasadena

Raised in South Pasadena, Becky Nicolaides is a historian and consultant specializing in the history of suburbs, metro areas, and Los Angeles. She is the author of three books, including The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, 2024), and her writing has appeared in Time Magazine, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other outlets.

In The New Suburbia, Becky investigates the transformation of America’s suburbs. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America’s cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation—rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly housed, and everyone in between. She will discuss this aspect and more of her research in what is sure to be a revealing and fascinating talk.

09/06/2024

At the City Council's session on Wednesday night, SPPF was extended the opportunity to renew our efforts towards getting our new lease signed, which is long overdue for all concerned. The eviction is still in effect, but we are hopeful that we can head off the worst. A SPECIAL THANKS goes to you: with your voice (including over 100 supportive public comment letters), the City Council heard that you wish to see this resolved so that we can continue to do our work to offer
the museum and our collection to the community.

09/02/2024

"SPPF is threatened with closure of the South Pasadena Historical Museum. We urgently need to demonstrate community support before Wednesday's closed session of the City Council."

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 Closed Session Council Meeting Agenda Item: Real Property Negotiations S.P. Iron Works Museum 913 Meridian Avenue South Pasadena Preservation Foundation, Inc.

07/20/2024

No 710, thanks to dedicated freeway fighters.

South Pasadena getting their some 80 homes back, and back to life after 70 years of fight CalTrans & The 710 Freeway, a second freeway that was stopped.

07/13/2024

07/07/2024

We are air conditioned!

06/20/2024

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06/15/2024

Your invited!
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06/06/2024

Raymond Hill Historic Walk- a great day in the neighborhood. Thanks to our collaborators at South Pasadena Active Streets, and for sweet finale courtesy of Twohey's Restaurant.🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚

06/04/2024

The capstone activity to the Marengo 3rd grade local history unit, included a visit to the South Pasadena History Museum. Students and their chaperones were guided through the different exhibits by members of the South Pasadena Preservation Foundation.

05/25/2024

Tell a friend!

05/18/2024

Limited tickets still available...

05/03/2024

We are partnering with [email protected] for this exciting rigorous walk across the history of Raymond Hill. We thank Towheys our kind sponsor...

We are partnering with [email protected] for this exciting rigourous walk across the history of Raymond Hill. We thank Twoheys our kind sponsor

05/03/2024

We are partnering with [email protected] for this exciting rigourous walk across the history of Raymond Hill. We thank Twoheys our kind sponsor