A Photography Project
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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Wilshire Blvd stretched west as Los Angeles expanded in the early 20th century. Street cars and automobiles provided accessiblity that spurred development targeting the up-and-coming middle and more affluent upper-middle class.
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The first all-metal house in the United States was built in a short 10 days as a case study in New York in 1931. It was purchased and moved to Palm Springs in 2017; reassembly started in 2023 on a parking lot of the Palm Springs Art Museum.
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One of a number of small-scale Art Deco commercial buildings in downtown Long Beach is called, simply, the Art Deco Building. It was designed by locally prominent architect George D. Riddle and built in 1930 by J.D. Sherer & Son.
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From the City’s “Historical Resources of Placentia” interactive map, the Marjie Building was the first brick building finished in the Placentia townsite. Bendix Baker built the two-story brick hotel and retail building in 1910.
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