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A well and several gates from the Anoakia mansion were removed and donated to the Arboretum.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2000
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p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 1, 2000
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p. A1 w/photo
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Anoakia
Arboretum
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19530AN
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Workers are salvaging items from the Anoakia mansion to be donated to the Arboretum.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2000
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p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 29, 2000
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p. A1 w/photo
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Anoakia
Arboretum
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19532AN
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Demolition permits have been approved and the project of building new homes where the Anoakia mansion stands is now underway. Artifacts from the mansion have been given to the Arcadia Historical Society and the Arboretum.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 13, 2000
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 13, 2000
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p. 1
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Anoakia
Housing
Item ID
27876AN
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Terrance McGowan of Santa Barbara donated 65 koi, Japanese carp that resemble giant goldfish, to the Arboretum.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper460
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1989
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1989
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
460AN
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The Atlantic Richfield Company has contributed $25,000 to the Arboretum to ensure resumption of several programs cut with the passage of Proposition 13.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper448
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 8, 1980
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p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 8, 1980
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p. A-2
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
448AN
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The Los Angeles State and County Arboretum plans to open its 3 acre rain forest exhibit in July featuring several hundred plant specimens from around the world.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper141
Newspaper
Star Tribune
Date
October 19, 1992
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p. 1
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Star Tribune
Date
October 19, 1992
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p. 1
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Arboretum
Item ID
141AN
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Arcadia’s Baldwin Lake makes history. A “History Lives Here” historical marker was dedicated at Baldwin Lake at the Los Angeles County Arboretum last Thursday. The marker was donated by Arcadia Historical Society.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 20, 2018
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p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 20, 2018
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p. 1, 11
Subjects
Arcadia Historical Society-Historical Markers
Baldwin Lake
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Item ID
35470AN
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The Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum keeps the past alive. Recently Doug Hayes donated family artifacts to the collection, an exhibit of Seabiscuit will run until October 31, and work will begin soon on restoration of "The Hugo Reid Family" statue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26164
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 18, 2003
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 18, 2003
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p. A1
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Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Item ID
26364AN
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Fall of the House of Baldwin. Part 3 of a 6 part series: What happened to the Jinks Room murals by Maynard Dixon? The Jinks Room had nine Dixon murals. The Lowry B. McCaslin family, which owned Anoakia at the time, held onto three murals, the rest were donated to the University of Southern California (USC). The McCaslin family bought the Anoakia estate after Anita Baldwin passed. By Galen Patterson. See hard copy in VF Baldwin, Anita

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 24, 2019
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 24, 2019
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p. 1, 4
Subjects
Anoakia
Baldwin, Anita
Dixon, Maynard
McCaslin, Lowry B.
Murals
Patterson, Galen
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35651AN
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Article discusses Arcadia Historical Society's search for a home for Anita Baldwin's piano as well as other artifacts. The piano, shipped around Cape Horn, is now located at Anoakia, Anita Baldwin's former home.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1981
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 5, 1981
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia Historical Society
Item ID
1706AN
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Article discusses severe budget and staff cuts at the Arboretum. Since 1975 the staff has been cut by 40 percent. The most recent county budget cut another $250,000 from the department.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 9, 1981
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p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 9, 1981
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p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
457AN
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Former Mayor Charles Gilb and his wife Ruth, through their family foundation, are donating $300,000 to construct a new museum. Curator Carol Libby displays museum artifacts on the community's history in the current museum.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 3, 1998
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 3, 1998
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p. 1
Subjects
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Libby, Carol
Gilb, Charles
Gilb, Ruth
Item ID
26680AN
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Anoakia

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1. "Famous Santa Anita Rancho." News clip, October 10, 1914. Original in archives. 2. "The building of an ideal California rancho." Out West, May/June, 1914. 3. "Anoakia - where no harm shall..." Pasadena Daily News, circa 1915? 4. "The art of Maynard Dixon." International Studio, May, 1915…
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1. "Famous Santa Anita Rancho." News clip, October 10, 1914. Original in archives.
2. "The building of an ideal California rancho." Out West, May/June, 1914.
3. "Anoakia - where no harm shall..." Pasadena Daily News, circa 1915?
4. "The art of Maynard Dixon." International Studio, May, 1915.
5. "Anoakia, home of Anita Baldwin." News clip, August 3, 1934.
6. Santa Anita Rancho. Anoakia Breeding Farm Private Catalogue, 1916. Black cover. Two copies in Archives.
7. Santa Anita Rancho Los Angeles County California Anita M. Baldwin. Original brochure (black cover with red Maltese cross) describing the animals and crops on Santa Anita Rancho. Photocopy of descriptive brochure.
8. First annual sale of registered hogs. October 24, 1916. Original is missing from Archives since August 1987.
9. "Fabulous estate converted into a school." Pasadena Star News, July 18, 1954.
10. Anoakia - name. Handwritten card giving one opinion.
11. "Anoakia property." News clip, January 19, 1975.
12. Environmental impact report of development of property (DRAFT). November, 1975. 135+ pages.
13. "Anoakia annexation." News clip, January 23, 1975.
14. "Anita Baldwin's Arcadia estate." San Gabriel Valley Tribune, July 11, 1976.
15. Rancho Village. Dinner-dance program given at Anoakia in 1975. Excellent floor plan and room description. Two copies.
16. "Mundy mail." Arcadia Tribune, January 15, 1976.
17. "Association to race." Arcadia Tribune, January 22, 1976.
18. "Estate transformed to girl's school." Arcadia Tribune, September 4, 1941. Photocopy.
19. Anoakia inventory. 1916. Copied from original at Huntington Library.
20. Anoakia kennels. Letterhead, 1917.
21. Anoakia stationery. Letterhead, 1921.
22. Anita Baldwin purchases plants from the New York State Building at the Panama Pacific Exposition. San Francisco, 1915.
23. 23a. Anoakia background. Spring, circa 1977. 23b. Anoakia Background, March 1, 1977, slight revision from 23a. 23c. Letter to Arcadia Historical Society from Lowry B. McCaslin January 19, 1977, with accompanying letter dated December 22, 1976 to the Planning Commission of the City of Arcadia, item 23d.
24. "Anoakia: a quiet place 'where no harm shall befall'." Arcadia Tribune, July 6, 1978.
25. "For all time." News photo of the Daughters of the American Revolution placing a historical marker. Arcadia Tribune, May 27, 1979.
26. "Telegram adds another chapter to Baldwin saga." Arcadia Tribune, August 26, 1979.
27. "Stately homes of California II: Anoakia," by Porter Garnett. Sunset Magazine, January 1914.
28. "Will follow Italian types." Los Angeles Times, September 26, 1912, pt. 5, p. 26.
29. "Unique among homes of America's rich." Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1913, pt. II, p. 7.
30. Anoakia - Tiffany Catalog (light fixtures). No date. Copied from original owned by Lowry McCaslin, owner of Anoakia, 1991.
31. Interview with secretary of Mr. Lowry McCaslin, owner of Anoakia beginning circa 1942. See also Oral History folder, item #8.
32. "Report on the Anoakia property and mansion and its historical significance." Memorandum from Community Development Administrator Donna Butler to the Arcadia Mayor and City Council. December 6, 1994.
33. Minutes of the Arcadia City Council, December 6, 1994. Approval of staff communication with owner Lowry McCaslin regarding the condition and historical significance of the Anoakia property.
34. Letter to Lowry B. McCaslin, McCaslin Properties, February 21, 1995. City of Arcadia Development Services Department requested that a video and related photographs of Anoakia be included in the City's historical records.
35. Obituary of Lowry B. McCaslin, owner of Anoakia since the 1940s. Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1995.
36. "Plans for development force school from idyllic campus." Los Angeles Times (Home Edition), June 28, 1990 (on-line).
37. Note - For information regarding Arthur B. Benton, Architect for Anoakia, see also Architects (Benton, Arthur B.) folder.
38. Correspondence from Mark McCaslin to Arcadia City Council re: Anoakia property, dated June 13, 1996 and July 10, 1996.
39. Program. Senior Ring Ceremony. Anoakia Hall. April 18, 1968.
40. "The West on walls: Maynard Dixon and the McClaughry Murals," California State Library Foundation Bulletin. Summer 1998. several articles about Maynard Dixon murals being placed in the State Library.
41. Arcadia City Planning Commission meeting minutes November 9, 1999 regarding the Anoakia estate.
42. Anoakia Residential Planned Development - Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), C.U.P. 99-004 and Vesting Tentative Map 52745. Staff Report for the Arcadia City Planning Commission prepared by the Development Services Department, November 9, 1999.
43. Consideration of Final Map No. 52745 for the Anoakia Residential Planned Development Project at 701 West Foothill Boulevard. Staff Report to Mayor and City Council prepared by the Development Services Department. August 15, 2000.
44. Two pages from Sotheby's Auction Catalog showing Tiffany light fixtures and hanging light from Anoakia. March 10, 2005 catalog pp. 94-95.
45. Sotheby's 20th Century Decorative Arts catalog (in color), New York, March 10, 2005. See pages 94-95 for Tiffany light fixtures from Anita Baldwin's Anoakia estate.
46. Color printout of a 1978 photograph, taken by Sandy Snider in 1978, of the fountain with dragon, originally located at Anoakia estate. Dragon was stolen, but fountain base (bowl) currently located at Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage.
47. Wine Tasting at Anoakia, September 26, 1986. Copy of invitation from Friends of the Arcadia Public Library, description of various rooms inside Anoakia Mansion located at 758 Anoakia Lane, hand drawn map, Arcadia Library Association Wine Tasting Notes.
Subjects
Anoakia
Physical Description
2 folders
Item ID
8AF
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Anoakia.

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Start Date
1912
End Date
1921
Contents
Anoakia, 715 North Baldwin Avenue. Site Plan 1912-1921
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Start Date
1912
End Date
1921
Contents
Anoakia, 715 North Baldwin Avenue. Site Plan 1912-1921
Subjects
Anoakia.
Location
History Room
Box Number
Box 65
Shelf Number
Shelf E6
Item ID
379AF
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Anoakia

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3703
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 3, 1934
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A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 3, 1934
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A-2
Subjects
Anoakia
Item ID
3578AN
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Los Angeles County Arboretum remains closed after a severe windstorm that hit early morning on December 1, 2011, caused extensive tree damage.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 8, 2011
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p. 1, 12, 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
December 8, 2011
Pages
p. 1, 12, 13
Subjects
Disasters
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Trees
Weather
Wind and windstorms
Item ID
32938AN
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The new owners of Anoakia have applied to the city to transform Anoakia into a 31-house gated community.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 1999
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 8, 1999
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p. A1
Subjects
Anoakia
Item ID
17031AN
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Anoakia Oaks, LLC, developers of the Anoakia estate, are willing to give away the Anita Baldwin mansion or it will be demolished.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 1999
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
November 11, 1999
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Anoakia
Anoakia Oaks, LLC
Baldwin, Anita
Item ID
27353AN
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The fate of Anoakia is discussed.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 2, 1999
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p. A1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 2, 1999
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p. A1 w/photo
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Anoakia
Item ID
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The preservation of Anoakia was discussed at a public hearing on a draft environmental impact report covering the development of the Anoakia property.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 26, 1999
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 26, 1999
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p. 1
Subjects
Anoakia
Item ID
27328AN
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