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Historic Pasadena

Last Updated September 3, 2001

Early Pasadena 
A Jarvis photo of early Pasadena circa late 1870's early 1880's.  Taken from the Raymond Hotel looking north.
Photo:  Ed Moses Collection

Actually this old color postcard was taken from a photograph of Pasadena taken circa 1876, not 1878 as depicted on the card.  View looking north on Orange Grove Avenue from Bellefontaine.
At left foreground, the H. G. Bennet's house. Pasadena's first school house is the small building under the tree in the center.  Methodist Episcopalian Church distant in center, Presbyterian Church at extreme right.
From the Ed Moses Collection

Pasadena in 1876

This is the photograph from which the postcard depicted above was made.

Photograph Courtesy of:
Thirty Years in Pasadena by Lon F. Chapin
Southwest Publishing Company, 1929

Pasadena in 1884

Pasadena looking west in 1884 representing the beginning of the town center. Central School, the second school built in Pasadena is the building with the tower to the left of the dirt road.  Two hotels, a store and community hall are grouped around the school at the intersection of Colorado Street and Fair Oaks Avenue.  Today this area is the heart of "Old Town."
Photo Courtesy, The Huntington Library

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