page_title: Normandie Heights, Pasadena, California
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Normandie Heights, Pasadena, California / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church, Pasadena, California
context_page_description: Normandie Heights is a neighborhood in Pasadena, California. It is bordered by Woodbury Road to the north, Washington Boulevard to the south, Los Robles Avenue to the west, and Lake Avenue to the east. While the exterior of many older homes in Southern California have been coated with stucco, Normandie is distinguished by a high concentration of Craftsman homes with well-maintained wooden exteriors. Accordingly, the City of Pasadena has designated more than 50 homes in the neighborhood as architectural landmarks, many on Rio Grande Street, between Los Robles Avenue and El Molino Avenue, which was the site of the first residences in the neighborhood.
  A significant number of motion pictures and television shows have been shot in Normandie Heights, including parts of the films Valkyrie, Old School, Wedding Crashers, The War of the Worlds, and The Wedding Planner.
context_section_description: Normandie's most prominent landmark is the clock tower at Westminster Presbyterian Church. 
  St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church is associated with Normandie Heights, but is located on the northern side of Woodbury Road, just outside the neighborhood boundaries.
  
  The Seth Cook Rees House, designed by Francis W. Wilson for the pastor and evangelist Seth Cook Rees (1854-1933), is also located in the neighborhood. The home, located at the southeast corner of Elizabeth Street and El Molino Avenue, has been designated as an historical landmark by the City of Pasadena, and serves as a prime example of Arts and Crafts period residential architecture.
  The Normandie Heights Estate, designed by Pasadena architect Sylvanus Marston in the Colonial Revival style  and built in 1911, was named for the community. The estate and its gardens were featured as a showpiece of Pasadena in the 1913 Tournament of Roses Pictorial.
  
  A collection of bungalows known as Washington Court, built in 1924 and located on the southwest edge of the neighborhood, has also been listed on the National Register of Historic Places as an exemplar of the English Cottage Revival style.
  Pasadena's beloved Washington Theater, currently undergoing rehabilitation, is located at the southeastern edge of the neighborhood. The theater, which enjoys historical landmark designation, was completed in 1924 and designed by the architect Clarence L. Jay in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. The theater was substantially remodeled on the exterior in 1937 in the Streamline Moderne style. The theater's rehabilitation envisions removal of the 1937 marquee, and restoration of the original 1924 marquee.
caption: St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church, located on the west side of Lake Avenue between Woodbury Road and New York Drive, this church lies just outside the boundary of the  Normandie Heights neighborhood of Pasadena.
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