Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Middle section - View of site of west portion of middle section of dam, looking northwest from near the spillway location. (Concrete testing laboratory, machine and compressor shop, and cement warehouse are shown in background. Excavation for Arch and Buttress foundation is shown in progress; also first buttress form. Tramway is shown between excavation and buildings.
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - View toward "Frog Pond Section" looking East across buttresses 12 to 18, showing forms in place and concrete placing for buttress 11. [Tramway trestle, mixing plant and chuting tower are shown in left foreground. The large building shown beyond the end of the trestle is a cement storage warehouse used to store cement for spring work in 1926, before roads were open for transportation. A "lift" of buttress panel forms is being placed on buttress 12 in foreground. Variable-span sectional trusses for supporting interados from sheathing shown at lower right.]
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Looking toward Cement Warehouse.
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - The Arch 6 side of the top of buttress 6 showing heavy spalling. This is typical of buttress heads on the first and second tangents.
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Big Creek, Florence Lake Dam - Looking across from Trestle toward cement warehouse.
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Florence dam construction - looking across upstream section of main river section.
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