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Tournament House. Orange Grove Boulevard is one street of several exclusive residential districts in Pasadena. Since the early 20th century, because of the number of landmark mansions, the street earned the name Millionaire's Row, an appropriate nickname, considering that the estates that once lined this spacious boulevard and the surrounding neighborhood read like a Who's Who of American ...
The site was originally occupied by a shopping mall called Plaza Pasadena, which opened in 1980 and featured three anchor stores: J.C. Penney, The Broadway, and May Company California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was built by The Hahn Company at a cost of $115 million on an 11-acre site and had featured over 120 stores. [ 3 ]
The structure carries Colorado Boulevard (then called "Colorado Street"), the major east–west thoroughfare connecting Pasadena with Eagle Rock and Glendale to the west, and with Monrovia to the east. The Colorado Street Bridge replaced the small Scoville Bridge located near the bottom of the Arroyo Seco. It opened on December 13, 1913. [3]
The Hotel Constance was founded by Pasadena businesswoman Constance V. L. Perry. [2] It was constructed on property leased for 20 years by the Orndorff Hotel Company [3] and opened on December 3, 1926. It was one of 18 major hotels in Pasadena at the time. [4] Perry sold the Hotel Constance to hotelier J. Monroe Procter in 1930.
Old Pasadena today is mostly a business district, with some mixed use. It contains a shopping mall, up-market restaurants, a movie theater, nightclubs, shops, outdoor cafés, pubs and comedy clubs, and has an active nightlife. The Pasadena Playhouse is located in Old Pasadena. Most of the buildings also have offices and apartments on the upper ...
The Howard Motor Company built the showroom in 1927; it was one of several car dealerships built along Colorado Boulevard. The building is designed in a California Churrigueresque style of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture; its design includes a decorative frieze, chamfered corners, and an elliptical arched entrance topped by the dominant Churrigueresque element.
California's first outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool [8] was added in 1926, when the hotel, formerly a winter resort, began operating year-round. [6] [9] The hotel was later owned by Stephen W. Royce, who sold it to the Sheraton Corporation in 1954. [6] It was subsequently renamed the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel. As a Sheraton, much of the hotel ...
Colorado Boulevard (or Colorado Street in Glendale and parts of Arcadia) is a major east–west street in Southern California. It runs from Griffith Park in Los Angeles east through Glendale , the Eagle Rock section of Los Angeles, Pasadena , and Arcadia , ending in Monrovia .