HOME OF THE WEEK

LANDMARK PINNEY HOUSE FEATURES 10 BEDROOMS.

The Pinney House was built in the late 1800s as a hotel where visitors from the East could stay while making land purchases. The structure’s three-story tower offered a view of the railway station, a mile away, so the proprietor would know when the train had arrived. Later a sanitarium, a boarding house, apartments and a filming location, the property is now a single-family house restored in keeping with the period ambience.

The details Location: 225 N. Lima St., Sierra Madre 91024 Asking price: $2.795 million Previously sold: In 2002 for $1.3 million Years built: 1887-88 Architects: Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom House size: 10 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, 10,000 square feet Lot size: Nearly half an acre Features: Living room, dining room and parlor fireplaces, library, sun room, first-floor studio, loft-like attic living quarters, front veranda, English-style garden. About the area: Last year, 84 single-family homes sold in the 91024 ZIP Code at a median price of $690,000, according to Dataquick. That was a 10% decrease from the 2011median. Open house: Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Agents: Katherine Orth, (626) 355-2384, and Judy Webb-martin, (626) 3552384, Podley Properties To submit a candidate for Home of the Week, send high-resolution color photos on a CD, written permission from the photographer to publish the images and a description of the house to Lauren Beale, Business, Los Angeles Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012. Send questions to homeoftheweek@ latimes.com.

Photographs by Erik Grammer A VERANDA looks out across the front yard of the 10,000-square-foot home, which sits on nearly half an acre of land.

THE HOME has been restored in keeping with the period ambience.