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Rancho Los Alamitos - Storer House

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Rancho Los Alamitos - Storer House

Description: Includes materials from Rancho Los Alamitos; Rancho Los Cerritos; Virginia Robinson Gardens; Rose City Dental; San Gabriel Bank; Santa Clarita Historical Society; South Pasadena High School Auditorium; and South Seas House. Also includes piece of an original cast-concrete block designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Storer House, 1923.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1964-2009.
Call number: archWeil
Creator: Weil, Martin Eli(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of the Estate of Martin E. Weil, February 2010.; Gift of Peter and June Weil, June 2014.
Associated people: Kelley, H. Roy (1892- ,); Kelly, Arthur Rolland, (1878-1959,); Kwan, Raymond, (1894-1980,)

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