A Photography Project
The cornerstone of the Masonic Temple in Santa Ana was laid on December 5, 1930. Designed by Horace B. Austin in a modified Gothic Revival style with Moderne influences, construction of the 4-story building was completed in 1931.
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In 1904, Charles and Henry Greene were hired to develop the master plan for the Oaklawn Place subdivision in South Pasadena that included a bridge over the Santa Fe Railway tracks to Fair Oaks Avenue and a waiting station for Pacific Electric passengers.
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The Colonial Revival style Heartwell-Lowe House was built in the Bluff Park area of Long Beach in 1919. The 2-story, 2,366 sq ft house was the home of Col. Charles L. Heartwell, who played a leading role in the development of the City.
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The 24-room Hotel Sierra Madre, built in 1887, was designed by Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom. The Pinney House, as it came to be called, was used as a sanatorium, boarding house, ballroom dance studio, apartment complex and film location.
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The citriculture industry in Southern California, sometimes called the “second California Gold Rush,” started in 1873 in Riverside when Eliza Tibbets planted two starter trees of a strain of navel orange tree from Bahia, Brazil.
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From the City’s “Historical Resources of Placentia” interactive map, the Placentia National Bank Building was built by A.S. Bradford in the fall of 1910. He started the two-story brick building immediately after the town site ceremony.
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The Lone Sailor Statue, overlooking Long Beach Harbor from Bluff Park, is an exact replica of the bronze sculpture created by Stanley Bleifield in 1984 and installed at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., in 1987.
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