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Building History

Kieffer designed this residence for an insurance broker, Robert Irving Cravens, and his wife, Melba, in the mid-1920s. (See Michael Locke, Flickr.com, "Cravens House, Ray J. Kieffer, 1926," accessed 08/24/2018.) Cravens worked for the Cass and Johansing Insurance Agency in Los Angeles, CA, and was a 1923 graduate of Stanford University. Cravens's bosses at the insurance firm, Louis Cass and Harry George Johansing (b. 1883 in Cincinnati, OH) also resided in La Cañada Flintridge. Cass and Johansing founded their business in 1916, when they purchased the C.B. Sloan and Company insurance agency in Los Angeles. (See "Resume of Pacific Coast Happenings," The Adjuster, vol 52, no. 4, 04/1916, p. 169.) Cass and Johansing did a prosperous business insuring greatly increasing numbers of automobile owners and had a business relationship with the influential Automobile Club of Southern California that benefited its revenues. (See See John Steven McGroarty, Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea, [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1921], p. 411-412.

Building Notes

In 07/2016, the five-bedroom, seven-bath Cravens House had an asking price of $3,285,000.

PCAD id: 9814