A Photography Project
Threatened with demolition, the Eastlake Victorian style house built in 1874 by Dr. George Cook Clark was relocated in 1972 and named Heritage House as part of the development of an arboretum at California State College, Fullerton.
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The Ramona Pageant, the love story of Ramona and Alessandro (a “Romeo and Juliet set in the Wild Wild West”), has been performed annually at the Ramona Bowl, a natural amphitheater in the foothills above Hemet, since 1923.
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The Minnie Palmer Residence in Chatsworth, also known as The Homestead Acre, is the only remaining homestead cottage in the San Fernando Valley. It was built by Minnie’s parents, James and Rhonda Hill between 1911 and 1913.
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The most prominent municipal structure designed by the firm of Schwager, Henderson & Desatoff for the City of Costa Mesa is its civic center built in 1967. It is designed in the severe Modernist aesthetic of the International style.
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The history of the Norton Simon Museum begins with the Pasadena Art Institute founded in 1922. In 1964, the Institute commissioned Pasadena-based Ladd & Kelsey to design a new 85K ft2 structure. The Pasadena Art Museum opened in 1969.
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The Seal Beach City Hall was the first and largest municipal facility in the growing seaside town. The two-story building was designed in the Spanish/Mediterranean Revival style by Santa Ana architect Horace Austin and completed in 1929.
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Temecula City Hall sits on a bluff above Old Town with I-15 at its back and Town Square spreading out in front of it. The Town Square Fountain is shaped like a woven basket of the Luiseño Indians who have lived the area for millennia.
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