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Edison House |
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Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society |
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Edison House |
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This
house was one of a group of cottages built by the
Southern California Edison Company to house employees in
1919 when the Newhall substation was opened. It was moved
west of Saugus in 1925 when the "new"
substation was completed and five other homes were built
of identical design. Assistant Edison Patrolman Raymond
Starbard occupied it and was credited as being the first
to spread the alarm of the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster.
The cottages were sold to Newhall Land and Farming
Company on January 17, 1972.
The cottage was donated to the Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society and moved to Heritage Junction on January 18, 1989. The other houses were burned by the Los Angeles County Fire Department as a training exercise. Architecturally significant, not only for their Swiss-Germanic Style, but for being unmodified, this single family residence has a shingled, gabled roof, clapboard siding, and hardwood floors.
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