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Historic Homes
Historic Home Detail | 411
Historic Name
Alois Podrasnik House
Address
2393 N Mountain Avenue
Upland, CA 91786
Evaluation
Building
5/9/2007
Construction Date
1906
Description
Only the lower story and a pair of chimneys are left standing
from a fire that devastated this two-story Craftsman home in
1988. Historic photographs illustrate a side gabled house with a
shed roof over a porch attached to the facade to the facade.
Although the shed roof is gone, the porch remains, divided into
four bays by cobblestone piers. The porch walls and the lower
story, as well as the chimneys at either end of the house, are of
cobblestone. Casement windows enclose the porch. Photographs
indicate that the upper story was wood-sided and contained window
bays at each end of the facade. Some of the landscaping also
appears to have escaped the fire.
The "Villa Alois" was built by Alois Podrasnik in 1906. A civil
war veteran, Podrasnik was a citrus rancher in Upland and was one
of the founders of the Upland Heights Orange Association. The
house, built on 10 acres, was one of the showplaces of the town and
included formal gardens. It was extensively photographed for the
fiftieth anniversary edition of the Daily Report in 1932. At the
time of the fire the house was still in the same family, having
been inherited by Podrasnik's daughter Marie Wass and then by her
son Francis Wass. According to one of the fire-fighters, enough
of the house remains to consider restoration.