Pasadena, CA Photos

Primarily developed as a residential community for the wealthy, Pasadena has a rich architectural fabric. Pasadena is also noted for Cal Tech, the Rose Parade, the Huntington Library & the Gamble House.

See also: Los Angeles & Orange Counties, Greene & Greene Architecture in Pasadena, Huntington Library, Norton Simon Museum, Rose Parade
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City Hall (1925-7) (100 N Garfield Ave.) in afternoon light.
Style: Spanish Baroque. Architect: John Bakewell Jr. & Arthur Brown Jr.

Carvings over portal of City Hall.

City Hall overview.

City Hall dome.

Pacific Southwest Trust & Savings Bank building (1925) (234 East Colorado Blvd.) 8 floors.

Star News building (1925) (525 East Colorado Blvd.) 3 floors.

David B. Gamble house (1908) (4 Westmoreland Pl.). Style: Craftsman. Architect: Charles & Henry Greene. On National Register. Greene & Greene Architecture in Pasadena

Gamble house front door with leaded glass window of tree.

Louise C Bentz house (1910) (657 Prospect Blvd.). Style: Craftsman. Architect: Charles & Henry Greene. On National Register.

Louise C Bentz house.

(695 Prospect Blvd.). Style: Craftsman.

Swiss chalet (572 Prospect Blvd.).

Gabled cottage (575 Prospect Blvd.).

Millard house (1923) (645 Prospect Cres.). Style: Textile Block. Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright. On National Register. Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in California

Millard house, first F.L. Wright textile block construction.

Millard house detail.

Robert R. Blacker house (1907) (1177 Hillcrest Ave.). Style: Craftsman. Architect: Charles & Henry Greene. On National Register. Greene & Greene Architecture in Pasadena

Henry A. Ware house (1913) (459 Bellefontaine St.). Style: Craftsman. Architect: Charles & Henry Greene. On National Register.

Howard Longley house (1897) (1005 Buena Vista). Style: Craftsman. Architect: Charles & Henry Greene. On National Register.

569 S. Marengo at California Avenues. Style: Gothic.

Bryan Court (1916) (427 S. Marengo Ave.) rare example of group of American bungalows. Style: Bungalow. Architect: D.M. Renton.

Henry E. Huntington Gallery with bronze sculpture of dogs chasing a boar. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA

Seahorse fountain at Henry E. Huntington Library.

Arched wooden bridge in Japanese Garden at Henry E. Huntington Gardens.

Barrel cactus at Henry E. Huntington Gardens.

Broad Center for Biological Sciences at Cal Tech (2002). Style: Postmodern. Architect: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Cal Tech, Pasadena

Beckman Auditorium design details at Cal Tech.

Gates Chemistry Lab (1917) (now admin) at Cal Tech.
Style: Churrigueresque. Architect: Bertram G. Goodhue & Elmer Grey.

Probably portrait of artist's son Titus (c 1645-50) by Rembrandt in Norton Simon Museum. Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Rose Parade detail of two seahorses made of flowers. Rose Parade, Pasadena


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