A Photography Project
In 1914, Samuel Kraemer built the first two-story structure in the growing town of Placentia. Constructed of red brick with a white glazed brick veneer, Kraemer himself heralded it as the “most impressive building in town.”
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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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