[2][3] The Edwin Hubble House is located in a residential area of western San Marino, on the east side of Woodstock Road near its cul-de-sac end.

It is a two-story Mission Revival house, designed by Los Angeles architect Joseph Kucera and completed in 1925.

The house is not of architectural significance; it is similar to many homes built in the Los Angeles area at that time.

His discoveries made while working at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the Mount Wilson Observatory revolutionized modern understanding of the cosmos, making it possible to determine with some accuracy the distance of remote objects.

His discovery of increasing redshift in the light spectra emitted by distant objects is a major piece of evidence that the universe is expanding.