Normandie Heights, Pasadena, California facts for kids
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.
Landmarks
Normandie's most notable landmark is the clock tower at Westminster Presbyterian Church. It is also notable as the old neighborhood of Sirhan Sirhan, who lived on Rio Grande Street.
Transportation
Normandie Heights was once served by the Mount Lowe Railway, which terminated at Lake Avenue and Calaveras Street, as well as the North Lake and East Washington lines of the Red Car trolley system.
Normandie Heights is currently served by Metro Local lines 256 and 662. The neighborhood is also served by Pasadena ARTS routes 20, 31, and 32.
Education
Normandie Heights is served by Longfellow and Altadena Elementary Schools, Eliot Middle School, and Muir and Pasadena High Schools. St. Elizabeth Parish School draws many children from the Normandie Heights neighborhood.
The neighborhood is equidistant between the California Institute of Technology campus and Caltech/NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Notable residents
- Seth Cook Rees (1854-1933), pastor and evangelist; prominent figure in the "holiness movement"
- Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy
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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.
