Pinney House Hotel
Elbert Pinney moved his family to the new town of Sierra Madre in 1887, bought 35 acres of land and built a hotel located just a mile from the Santa Fe railroad station. The 24-room Hotel Sierra Madre was designed by Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom. The Pinney House, as it came to be called, predated the incorporation of the City of Sierra Madre and was often the venue for meetings of the Board of Trade, the forefathers to the City. The interior has been altered over the years to accomodate the varied uses of the house – sanatorium, boarding house, ballroom dance studio, apartment complex and film location (for which the elaborate arch over the main entrance doorway was added). Today, the Pinney House Hotel is an apartment residence for both long-term and short-term rentals.
Sierra Madre, Los Angeles County
Photographer: Andrew Schmidt