A Photography Project
The Coronado Boathouse is located on Glorietta Bay below the Hotel Del Coronado. It was built in 1887 as a sort of “practice round” before construction of the Hotel Del began later that year. It was repurposed as a restaurant in 1967.
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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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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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