THE M. BYRON McNULTY HOUSE

1091 Arden Road | Pasadena

The M. Byron McNulty House is an architectural gem set in one of Pasadena’s most
beautiful neighborhoods: the Arden Road Landmark District. Built in 1918 by Golden
Age architect G. Lawrence Stimson – whose other works include the iconic Wrigley
Mansion (also known as Tournament House, home of the Tournament of Roses),
Knollcrest, and the Charles Fairbanks House – the property sits on a block of other
architectural masterpieces by Wallace Neff, Marston & Van Pelt, Roland Coate, and
Robert Farquhar. Neighboring houses have served as settings for films and hit
television shows ranging from Duck Soup to Dynasty and Mad Men to Starsky & Hutch.
And the McNulty House is amazingly walkable: two minutes to Polytechnic School and
Caltech, 10 minutes to the shops and restaurants of South Lake Avenue, and 20
minutes to both the Huntington Library and the Langham Hotel. No other neighborhood
in Pasadena represents a higher concentration of historically and culturally important
properties and amenities, and houses like the McNulty House rarely come on the
market.
The present owners recently completed an extensive and historically appropriate
decade-long renovation to reimagine the property and bring it up to the standards of
modern luxury living while preserving Lawrence Stimson’s original architectural vision.
A gut renovation in 2017-18 reoriented the floor plan to create bright open spaces and
family living areas, an up-to-the-minute chef’s kitchen, all-new bathrooms, and a fully
modernized electrical and plumbing system, along with a new fire-resistant shake
shingle roof. In 2023, a screened porch was enclosed, adding approximately 140
square feet to the living area to create a jewel box currently used as a music room. In
2024-25, the exterior spaces of the roughly half-acre lot were completely redone to
create an extensive outdoor entertaining area with beautiful outdoor kitchen, fireplace,
and seating areas, a new spa and completely renovated pool with Pebbletec surfaces, a
modernized pool bathroom, extensive French drain system, architectural iron fencing
and security gates, outdoor lighting, and custom planting by one of Pasadena’s leading
landscape architects. The result is a completely turnkey opportunity to acquire one of
the great houses of Pasadena on one of the most beautiful streets in Los Angeles
County.
Ideally located near the Langham Huntington Hotel, Lacy Park, South Lake Avenue’s
premier shopping and dining, and institutions including Polytechnic
School and California Institute of Technology, this residence offers not only beauty and
refinement but a meaningful connection to the rich community amentities of Pasadena,
the San Gabriel Valley, and greater Los Angeles.

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