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"Sierra Madre Villa" (Cogswell's Hotel) San Gabriel

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Description: The long, two-story building of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), owned by William F. Cogswell, with many windows, sits on a slight hill in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. A group of smaller buildings sit to the right. A forked, dirt road lined with shrub plants and young trees leads up to buildings.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1877-approximately 1880
Call number: photCL 74 (592)
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Cogswell's Sierra Madre Villa, W.P. Rhoades Lessee, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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The long, two-story building of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in what is now Sierra Madre, California, owned by William F. Cogswell, with many windows, sits on a slight hill in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. A group of smaller buildings sit to the right. A forked, dirt road lined with shrub plants and young trees leads up to buildings.

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Apiary at Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel

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Distant view of a bee yard, including dozens of hive boxes set in rows across the landscape with a one-story building in the middle related to the beekeeping business of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California). In the foreground is a low hill covered in scrub brush, and the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains are in the background.

photCL 74 (593)

Cogswell's Sierra Madre Villa, W.P. Rhodes, Lessee

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View over the shingled roof of a building, out onto landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), owned by William F. Cogswell, with orchards in the distance. To the left is a two-story house with a porch.

photCL 74 (591)

Cogswell's Sierra Madre Villa, Los Angeles Co., Cal

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Long, two-story hotel building with a wraparound porch and landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in what is now Sierra Madre, California, owned by William F. Cogswell, with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and citrus trees in the foreground. Several people sit out on the lawn and on porch.

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Apiary at Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel

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Seen from a distance, rows of white hive boxes, and two small buildings related to the beekeeping business of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California). In the foreground, there is a rocky hill covered with scrub brush and the San Gabriel Mountains in the background.

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Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel

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Long, two-story hotel building with a wraparound porch and landscaped grounds of the Sierra Madre Villa hotel in San Gabriel (now Sierra Madre, California), with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background and citrus trees in the foreground. Several people sit out on the lawn and on porch.

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"Sierra Madre Villa" (Cogswell's Hotel) San Gabriel

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