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It was built in 1907 for Robert Roe Blacker and Nellie Canfield Blacker. It was designed by Henry and Charles Greene of the renowned Pasadena firm of Greene and Greene. This house was a lavish project for the Greene brothers, costing in excess of US$100,000.00 ($3.27 million today).
Eugene White: Bell Gardens: 1941–1948: Tableware & art ware [11] Ever Art Ceramics: Los Angeles: 1940s: Art ware [38] The Feldman Company: Los Angeles: unknown: Lamps [24] FHR Fred Robertson Los Angeles Pottery: Los Angeles: 1906–1921: Art ware: Fleurette Ceramics, Inc. West Hollywood: 1950s: Giftware [20] Flintridge China Company (Gorham ...
Two of Pasadena's historic bridges, the Colorado Street Bridge, built in 1913 and known for its distinctive Beaux Arts arches, light standards, and railings, and the La Loma Bridge, built in 1914, are among the sites listed on the Register. Thirty-one of Pasadena's listings are historic districts, which include multiple contributing properties.
Gamble House was home to David B. Gamble of the Procter & Gamblecompany. Northwest Pasadena is bordered on the north and west by the city limits, on the south by the 210 and 134 Freeways, and the east by Los Robles and El Molino Avenues. It has traditionally been a working-class area with a significant African-American population.
It was opened in 1960 by Willard Chilcott who, soon after, took on folk music icon Bob Stane as his partner. [1]From 1960 to 1978, The Ice House, originally managed by Keith Pearce, aka, O'Brien, was a folk music club with acts coming from around the country to perform.
The Dr. W. T. Bolton House is a historic house located at 370 W. Del Mar Boulevard in Pasadena, California. Built in 1906, the Craftsman-style house was designed by prominent Pasadena architects Charles and Henry Greene. The house's design emphasizes function over form, a key concept in Craftsman designs; its joints and beams are exposed, and ...
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 area was also an artistic center, the home to Andy Warhol's West Coast museum debut and the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective, both at the Pasadena Art Museum (one of the earliest modern art museums in the country, now the Norton Simon Museum). Before that, Pasadena was a center of suffragist and pacifist movements and other liberal causes.