Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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The Koster House, on the north side of Second Street, 515 W Second. The mansard-roofed Argyle Hotel, right, sits at Second and Olive. Other lost structures include the Hall of Records, California State Building, and the gasometers at Commercial and Center streets.
Book 3, pg. 32 / Neg. 7102
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At right, the Hotel Gladden at 100 South Olive. Built as the Hotel Cecil in 1903 by Bernard Holmes.
Book 1, pg. 57 / Neg. 6933
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The Café was given a streamline remodel in 1936. Behind the Café, the La Loma at 251 S. Olive (architect: Lewis A. Smith, 1923) and the Cumberland (architect: Marsh & Russell, 1904).
Book 1, pg. 42 / Neg. 12693
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The Cumberland Hotel (architect: Marsh and Russell, 1904). This is where Hall moved in 1952. There are numerous shots of its interior in the contact sheet binders. Hall moved to the Engstrum Apartments at Fifth and Grand when the Cumberland was marked for razing.
Book 3, pg. 34 / Neg. 14105
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From left to right, the rear of the Richelieu, 142 South Grand; the Melrose Annex at 130 South Grand, and the Melrose at 120 South Grand, shot from Olive Street looking west.
Book 1, pg. 15 / Neg. 10088
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From Hall's apartment window. The two large structures, center, are the back of the Hotel Northern at Second and Clay, and the Fashion League building at Second and Hill Streets.
Book 3, pg. 38 / Neg. 8983