87 San Marino, Pasadena, CA 91107

Every New Year’s Day the Rose Parade turns east onto Colorado Boulevard and runs the length of it, one block north of this home's front porch. Twin front gables with bracketed eaves. A brick chimney. A deep covered porch on square tapered columns, wide enough to sit out on and soak in the Pasadena lifestyle. Inside the front residence, the living room takes the morning light, with a fireplace set between built-in bookshelves. The dining room keeps its Craftsman buffet, and a pair of French doors opens onto the porch. The kitchen runs cabinets to the ceiling. Two bedrooms sit off a central hall with a full bath between them. Behind it, a second address, 87 1/2, with its own entrance off the driveway: a studio with an efficiency kitchen and a three-quarter bath. Two addresses, two entrances, one parcel. Live in the front and let the studio help carry it, or put both to work. Then the land, and the land is a lot to dream about. The parcel runs 8,328 square feet and lies flat...