The Pauline Lowe Residence or Pauline Lowe House was a private home in Altadena, California, built in 1934, designed by Harwell Hamilton Harris. It was destroyed in the Eaton Fire in 2025.

Pauline J. Lowe (1896–1983)^[1] worked for the Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles,^[2] and later was store manager at I. Magnin's Pasadena location.^[3][4] She asked her friend Harwell H. Harris to design a small one-story home for her. The modernist residence built in 1934 on East Punahou Street in Altadena, California, for about $4000.^[2] It was Harris's first independent project, after leaving the Richard Neutra office.^[5] The house was considered stylish; it was featured in California Arts and Architecture^[6] and other publications.^[7][8][9] The design won honorable mention in a House Beautiful competition,^[10] and its elements were copied elsewhere.^[2] Frank Lloyd Wright "acknowledged his admiration" for the Lowe residence.^[11]

The Lowe residence was built from redwood, and noted for its efficient use of a narrow lot, strategic shade placement, and earthquake safety features.^[8][12] Among its distinctive features were 21 exterior doors,^[5] some of them opening onto private exterior spaces for outdoor sleeping.^[13] The distinctive doors were initially sliding doors inspired by Japanese design;^[10][14] these were soon replaced with hinged doors, when Lowe complained about the original installations rattling in the wind.^[15] Harris's original design called for a flat roof, but the house had a hip roof when built.^[16]

In 2025, the Pauline Lowe Residence was described by The New York Times as a "midcentury landmark,"^[17] and by the Los Angeles Times as one of the "architecturally significant houses" destroyed in the Eaton Fire.^[13][18]

• Crosse, John. "Harwell Hamilton Harris and Fellowship Park" Southern California Architectural History (January 3, 2019); a blog post about Harris, mentions the Lowe Residence