Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture Donald Miller New York Times bestselling author

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Downtown Pasadena's Early Architecture Donald Miller New York Times bestselling authorAt sunset, the San Gabriel Mountains form a rosy sculptural backdrop for Pasadena, a city of stately street trees and lush gardens. Attracted by a paradisiacal climate, health seekers and wealthy Easterners flocked to its resort hotels the Green, the Maryland, the Huntington, the Painter, the Raymond and built grand residences along Orange Grove and Grand Avenues. Scores of commercial and industrial buildings rose downtown, punctuated by public works,