San Gabriel Valley

#221: Michael White Adobe (San Marino)

#221: Michael White Adobe (San Marino)

July 11, 2024
Constructed ~1845, the Michael White Adobe is one of just 39 historic adobes left in LA County, and the second oldest building in San Marino. Its first owner was a sailor, shipbuilder and rancher who unwittingly took part in some of the most significant events in 19th century Los Angeles history.
#213: Glendora Bougainvillea

#213: Glendora Bougainvillea

June 15, 2024
The Glendora Bougainvillea is the largest planting of the vine in the US, and a living connection to the story of the citrus industry that helped to build LA around the turn of the 20th century.
#124: Aztec Hotel (Monrovia)

#124: Aztec Hotel (Monrovia)

October 30, 2022
Ghosts! Hookers! Cultural appropriation! They're all part of the fascinating history of the Aztec Hotel, an eye-popping 1925 Mayan revival hotel in Monrovia (now closed) designed by the idiosyncratic architect Robert Stacy-Judd.