With the landmark Decker House halved and moved to its new site, a long-awaited affordable housing it anchors broke ground earlier this week. The building will be the central element in a project dubbed Decker Court, which is the [...]

RAAM Construction, a general building construction firm specializing in multifamily and historic preservation projects throughout California, has broken ground on the construction of two affordable townhome developments in Pasadena. The properties will consist of 16 two-story townhomes, nine at [...]

The 1892 Queen Anne Victorian is named after two of its early occupants, Frank and Anna Decker. It was first designated a city landmark in 1988 and has sat vacant for more than a decade. Thursday wasn’t the first [...]

The historic house was split in two and will be reassembled for an affordable housing development. Pasadena’s historic Decker House is on its way to a second life as an affordable condominium building after it was split into two, [...]

“One of the challenges we face in historic preservation and working with structures where wood is dry is that you can’t just take a saw and cut a piece of old, dry wood,” RAAM Construction President and CEO Richard [...]

It could have been the size of the home-three times as large a s the one-broom rental where she'd been living with her two children. It could have been the fact that each person would have a separate bedroom. [...]