City Hall, Pasadena, California [010]

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Title City Hall, Pasadena, California [010]
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 54, USA Pasadena Arch City Hall, 9
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1957; 1958; 1959; 1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970; 1971; 1972; 1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978
Subject Public buildings--California--Pasadena--Photographs; City halls--California--Pasadena--Photographs; Architecture, American--California--Pasadena--Photographs; Towers--California--Pasadena--Photographs; Jr., John Bakewell, 1872-1963--Photographs; Jr., Arthur Brown, 1874-1957--Photographs; California
Spatial Coverage Pasadena (Calif.)
Description Photograph of Northeast tower, City Hall, Pasadena, California
Caption on Slide Northeast tower, City Hall, Pasadena, California. Architects: Bakewell and Brown, 1925-27
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: "Located at 100 North Garfield Avenue, City Hall was designed by John Bakewell & Arthur Brown who were influenced by the early Renaissance style of 16th century Italian architect Andrea Palladio. Construction was completed on December 27, 1927. City Hall is a rectangular edifice outlining a spacious court. On the outside it measures 351 feet north and south, and 242 feet east and west. The east side is a one-story arcade. The other three sides are three stories high, with small towers at each corner and the main dome over the west entrance."--City of Pasadena website. Note: "The firm of Bakewell & Brown was founded in 1905 by John Bakewell, Jr. (1872-1963) and Arthur Brown, Jr. (1874-1957). The prominent San Francisco firm designed buildings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area... Bakewell & Brown won the competition for the design of the San Francisco City Hall, which was built in 1915. They also designed the Berkeley Unified School District Building (formerly Berkeley City Hall), and the Pasadena City Hall."--The Bakewell & Brown Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6mk6wzj
Donor Tierney, Lennox; Tierney, Catherine
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 340932
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6mk6wzj