Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Wide view of open land and agricultural fields dotted with houses and dirt roads. In the distance, the large Raymond Hotel sits atop a razed hilltop in Pasadena, California (on the border of what is now South Pasadena).
photPF 596
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Exterior view of the multi-story Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, California (in what is now South Pasadena), with a porch that wraps around entire building, in the final stages of construction. An individual in a hat, sits at the top of a stone stairway leading up the hill to the hotel. Grounds are not yet landscaped.
photPF 595
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Four card photographs depicting exterior of the Raymond Hotel and the surrounding landscape in Pasadena, California (and what is now South Pasadena) during the final stages of construction in 1885 and 1886. Three of the photographs are cabinet cards and photPF 596 is a stereograph. Photographer imprints are E.S. Frost & Son (photPF 593-594) and J.T. Tuttle & Co. (photPF 595). Stereographs 597, 598 and 599 have been moved to Stereo file: photST.
photPF 593-599
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Wide view of a landscaped, dirt road winding up a hill. In the distance orchards, Victorian mansions, including the houses of Thaddeus Lowe and William Stanton, and other residences are scattered on the open land, as seen from Raymond Hill looking west towards Pasadena, California.
photPF 532
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Viewed from above, a Victorian residence with climbing plants growing up the side, sits at the foot of a hill. A few other residences sit atop the hill on the left, with the Sierra Madre Mountains in the background.
photPF 9567
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Exterior view of the multi-story Raymond Hotel, with a porch that wraps around the entire building, in Pasadena, California (in what is now South Pasadena), in the final stages of construction. Men, presumably construction workers, stand on suspended platforms outside the upper level windows. A horse-drawn carriage and a few people are scattered out in front, which at this point is not landscaped.
photPF 594
