Hotel Glendale
Hotels have played an important role in promoting real estate development and settlement in Southern California. The Hotel Glendale was conceived by Anthony Ambrosini, Charles Ingledue and a group of other investors in response to Glendale’s boom during the late 1910s and early 1920s. The East Glendale Advancement Association, a civic improvement organization, formed in the early 1920s with three major goals: financing the proposed hotel, paving Glendale Avenue, and electrifying the Union Pacific railroad line that ran past the hotel site. It was designed in the Beaux Arts Classical style of architecture in 1924 by Arthur Lindley and Charles Selkirk. The hotel was later converted to senior living accommodations. It is listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources and the National Register of Historic Places.
Glendale, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Al Russell