A Photography Project
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad station, commonly known as Claremont Depot, was built in 1927, replacing an 1887 wooden depot. It was designed by SF architect William H. Mohr in a mixed Mission-Spanish Colonial Revival style.
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Built in 1924, the three-level glass-roofed shopping arcade of the Broadway-Spring Arcade Building in Los Angeles connects two 12-story office towers. It was built on the site of Mercantile Place, a small alley lined with retail shops.
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In 1940, Walter Knott decided to go big with his efforts to give waiting diners something to do and began construction of Ghost Town. Over the years, he added real and replicas of historic buildings, trains and more.
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The Santa Ana lodge of the Knights of Pythias built a 2-story facility in downtown Santa Ana in 1926 with retail spaces on the ground floor and a meeting hall used by the Knights of Pythias and the Grand Army of the Republic upstairs.
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Lee House, built in 1890, is one of, if not the oldest standing residence in Claremont. The “Free Classic” Queen Anne is a modest, 1,826 sq. ft., 2-story residence that was moved about two blocks west from its original location around 1912.
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The City of Upland’s first public building was a library. Funded by a Carnegie grant, the Classical Revival building, designed by Homer Glidden, opened in 1913. The housed the library until 1969 and is now used for community events.
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The City of Irvine was conceived and planned in 1959-60 and incorporated in 1971, yet it wasn’t until April 1989 that the Irvine Civic Center, the city’s first permanent city hall, was dedicated in the Westpark area.
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