Neighborhood overview
Rossmoyne is in Glendale, California. Glendale's Rossmoyne Historic District, set along gently curving streets and including Nibley Park.
The City describes an outstanding variety of Period Revival homes there, including Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and French-inspired designs.
The City's district map marks each Rossmoyne parcel, and its historic district property search shows one address at a time. The Royal Boulevard Historic District next door covers part of Rossmoyne's second phase.
Homes & property types
Single-family Period Revival homes. The City's historic resources survey found about 82 percent of properties qualify as contributors, and records the tract in four units from 1923 to 1925. The last unit took in the hillside lots north of Mountain Street along Rossmoyne Avenue, Hillcroft Road, Rosemount Road, and Loreto and Sinaloa Drives.
What makes properties here different
Look up your home's contributing status in the City's historic report, and have the approvals for past work with your permits. Buyers in a historic district ask about both. Price against other Rossmoyne sales of similar style and condition.
Living in the neighborhood
Nibley Park sits inside the district. The survey says the Haddock-Nibley Company gave the lot to the City when it opened the fourth unit in 1925.
The survey calls Rossmoyne an early automobile suburb. Edward M. Lynch, the engineer who surveyed the whole Rossmoyne tract, built his own Mediterranean villa on a large hillside lot at 1230 Rossmoyne Avenue. Photographs of it, and of builder Fred W. Pigg's elaborate Tudor Revival at 1114 Rossmoyne Avenue, appeared in newspaper articles and advertisements for the tract. In October 1926 the Nibley Investment Company opened more hillside lots along Royal Boulevard as Tract No. 7013.
Neighborhood FAQ
- How many homes are in the Rossmoyne Historic District?
- 503, according to the City of Glendale, which makes it the city's largest historic district.
- Who reviews changes to a Rossmoyne home?
- In Glendale's historic districts, the Historic Preservation Commission reviews proposed work on a house instead of the Design Review Board, according to the City.
Other Glendale neighborhoods
Sources
- City of Glendale — Rossmoyne Historic Resources Survey (LSA, September 2011 draft) — retrieved 2026-10-15.
- City of Glendale — Rossmoyne Historic District — retrieved 2026-10-15.
- City of Glendale — Historic Districts — retrieved 2026-10-15.
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Sidney Manzo, CA DRE #01108914, licensed in California. Informational only: a property-specific review is advisory, not an appraisal, and neither this page nor the form creates a listing agreement. Equal Housing Opportunity.

