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Singer Building (Pasadena, California) is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Singer Building (Pasadena, California)
Location in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Singer Building (Pasadena, California) is located in California
Singer Building (Pasadena, California)
Location in California
Singer Building (Pasadena, California) is located in the United States
Singer Building (Pasadena, California)
Location in the United States
Location 16 S. Oakland Ave. and 520 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, California
Built 1926
Architect Babcock, Everett Phipps
Architectural style Spanish Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No. 85001066
Added to NRHP May 16, 1985

The Singer Building in Pasadena, California is a Spanish Colonial Revival building located at 520 E. Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California. Built in 1926, the building was designed by Everett Phipps Babcock and is his only surviving non-residential design. The Spanish Colonial Revival design of the building was popular in Pasadena in the 1920s. Prominent features of the building's design include a red tile roof, a stone frieze with a tiled pattern, and piers with decorative moldings. The building originally housed a Singer Sewing Machine Company showroom and has since been used for other commercial purposes.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 16, 1985.

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