Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture

Scheid, Ann

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At sunset, the San Gabriel Mountains form a rosy sculptural backdrop for Pasadena, a city of stately street trees and lush gardens. Attracted by a paradisiacal climate, health seekers and wealthy Easterners flocked to its resort hotels--the Green, the Maryland, the Huntington, the Painter, the Raymond--and built grand residences along Orange Grove and Grand Avenues. Scores of commercial and industrial buildings rose downtown, punctuated by public works, civic buildings, schools, and churches that doubled as works of art, like the Colorado Street Bridge, the Christian Science Church, and the California Mediterranean-style city hall. Preservation efforts have succeeded in putting Old Pasadena and the Pasadena Civic Center on the National Register of Historic Places, and continued restoration has made the city's unique architectural treasures a major attraction in Southern California.
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Scheid, Ann
Titel
Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture
Uitgever
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Jaar
2006
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
130
Gewicht
413 gr
EAN
9781531616410
Afmetingen
244 x 170 x 16 mm
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