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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 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 ]
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 .
It was renamed The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa in April 1998. [6] In October 2007, the hotel was sold to Great Eagle Holdings for $170 million [ 15 ] and renamed The Langham Huntington, Pasadena, on January 8, 2008, managed by Langham Hotels International .
At the time, the Los Angeles Times noted: "In a city where historic preservation is much like a civic obsession, City Hall has long been among the crown jewels of Pasadena, along with the Colorado Street Bridge, the Rose Bowl and the Gamble House. Although the renovation has been among the costliest public works projects in Pasadena, totaling ...
Pasadena (/ ˌ p æ s ə ˈ d iː n ə / PAS-ə-DEE-nə) is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, 11 miles (18 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles.It is the most populous city and the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley. [19]
The area at the floor of the Arroyo Seco, along both sides of the flood control channel (between Arroyo Blvd. on the east and San Rafael Ave. on the west, from the Colorado Street bridge to the South Pasadena border) is known locally as Lower Arroyo Park, and identified as such by a sign posted at the entrance near the intersection of Arroyo ...
The museum entrance hall. After receiving approximately 400 German Expressionist pieces from collector Galka Scheyer in 1953, [2] the Pasadena Art Institute changed its name to the Pasadena Art Museum in 1954 and occupied the Chinoiserie-style "The Grace Nicholson Treasure House of Oriental Art" building (now the Pacific Asia Museum) on North Los Robles Avenue until 1970. [3]