Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780738530246)

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.

Author: Ann Scheid
ISBN-10: 0738530247
ISBN-13: 9780738530246
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 05/10/2006
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.54w x 0.38d