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City of Homes is rapidly becoming the city of hotel rooms with the Extended Stay Hotel under construction and two more hotels planned.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 16, 1998

Pages: p. 16

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: April 16, 1998

Pages: p. 16

Subjects: Hotels; Redevelopment

Item ID: 26505AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

View of Oakwood Hotel, close enough to show its brick construction. There appears to be a bird cage on front terrace of Hotel.

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Date: 1890's

1 image

Date: 1890's

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 281

Collection: Photographs

Images

View of Oakwood Hotel from across the railroad tracks. On the front of the photo is written, "Lucky Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel Arcadia - Calif. 1895." There are several people standing in front of the hotel. A carriage is to the left by the large oak tree.

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Date: c.1895

1 image

Date: c.1895

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 4x5 b&w

ID: 282

Collection: Photographs

Images

General information re Oakwood Hotel

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 23, 1950 p. 4; July 15, 1950 p. 3

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: March 23, 1950 p. 4; July 15, 1950 p. 3

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Item ID: 4031AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

By February 14, 1985, the Granada Royale Hometel will be known as the Embassy Suite Hotel. The hotel was purchased in April 1984 by Embassy Suites, a subsidiary of Holiday Inn.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 27, 1985

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: January 27, 1985

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Hotels, Motels, Etc. - Embassy Suites

Item ID: 1822AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Three tally-hos are seen parked in front of the Oakwood Hotel. Sign on the front of the hotel reads BALDWIN'S HOTEL OAKWOOD. The middle tally-ho has a white horse. There are people sitting in the tally-hos and one man standing at the rear of the middle tally-ho.

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Date: unknown

1 image

Date: unknown

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1632

Collection: Photographs

Images

Construction will begin in November on the $20 million hotel-office complex on the site of the Ramada Inn, according to John Kirkpatrick, the developer. He expects that the hotel and one office building will be completed before the 1984 Olympics. The new hotel will be first class with a well-known name.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 6, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: June 6, 1982

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Hotels, Motels, Etc. - Ramada Inn

Item ID: 1833AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Articles regarding Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel and Restaurant.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 21, 1939 p. 1 (opening); April 14, 1941 p. 1; April 17, 1941 p. 1; June 19, 1941 p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: December 21, 1939 p. 1 (opening); April 14, 1941 p. 1; April 17, 1941 p. 1; June 19, 1941 p. 1

Subjects: Restaurants, Bars, etc.-Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel and Restaurant

Item ID: 3903AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Side view photo of Oakwood Hotel with a Tally Ho stopped here with its full party. Hotel was built in 1889 and was situated about where parking lot of the Sportsrock Cafe is now.

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Date: c.1890's

1 image

Date: c.1890's

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 285

Collection: Photographs

Images

Le Meridien hotel by Marriott to break ground next week on the former site of Santa Anita Inn. See hard copy in VF Hotels and Motels.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 21, 2018

Pages: p. 1

Newspaper: Arcadia Weekly

Date: June 21, 2018

Pages: p. 1

Subjects: Hotels and motels; Le Meridien; Marriott; Mixed use development

Item ID: 35398AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Two hotels are being proposed for redevelopment property along Huntington Drive in Arcadia, potentially creating a "hotel row" between East Arcadia and West Monrovia.

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Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 17, 1987

Pages: p. A-1

Newspaper: Arcadia Tribune

Date: May 17, 1987

Pages: p. A-1

Subjects: Hotels, Motels, etc.

Item ID: 1821AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Oakwood Hotel seen as just a brick shell immediately after the fire which destroyed it.

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Date: Nov. 11 or 12, 1911

1 image

Date: Nov. 11 or 12, 1911

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1078

Collection: Photographs

Images

Flamingo Hotel/Motel at 130 W. Huntington, built about 1956 or 1957. Part of Ramada Inn chain. Before it was the Flamingo, the Pony Express Museum was at this address. The Flamingo Hotel (Ramada) stayed here 1955-c. 1984. It reopened as the Santa Anita Inn on February 8, 1986. On the same site, the Le Meridien Hotel, part of the Marriott chain, broke ground in June 2018 and opened in 2021.

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Date: c.1959-1960

1 image

Date: c.1959-1960

Subjects: Flamingo Motor Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 287

Collection: Photographs

Images

Photo of a page from the 1907 Los Angeles Racing Association Souvenir Booklet showing "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's Ranch." The Oakwood Hotel is just visible to the right of the photo. The large oak tree dominates the center of the photo.

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Date: 1907 season

1 image

Date: 1907 season

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1352

Collection: Photographs

Images

A statue to honor Anita M. Baldwin, daughter of Arcadia's founder Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin, will be built at the new Le Meridien Hotel, a luxury hotel in Arcadia. The artist/sculptor is Alfred Paredes, who also created the Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin statue.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: February 15, 2021

Pages: p. A3, A4

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: February 15, 2021

Pages: p. A3, A4

Subjects: Baldwin, Anita M.; Hotels, Motels, etc.; Le Meridien Hotel; Marriott Hotels; Marriott International; Public Art; Statuary

Collection: Newspaper Index

Monrovia's Aztec Hotel is showcasing fine art in its non-profit Aztec Art Center Route 66 Gallery. Visitors are not just from Monrovia, but from Pasadena, Duarte and Arcadia. A painting by Manuel Barillas is pictured. The hotel is owned by Kathie Reece-McNeill. The hotel was designed in 1925 by English architect Robert Stacy-Judd and was inspired by Mayan and Aztect structures. The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.

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Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: February 5, 2009

Pages: p. B1

Newspaper: Pasadena Star News

Date: February 5, 2009

Pages: p. B1

Subjects: Art; Aztec Hotel - Monrovia, California; Barillas, Manuel; Historic Buildings; Monrovia Association of Fine Arts; Pettie, Ron; Route 66 Gallery; Reece-McNeill, Kathie; Scully, Richard; Stacy-Judd, Robert

Item ID: 31572AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Huntington Bank on First Avenue between Wheeler and Santa Clara Streets. Former site of Oakwood Hotel.

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Date: 1979

1 image

Date: 1979

Subjects: Huntington Bank; Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 4x5 color

ID: 1228

Collection: Photographs

Images

There was a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday for an Extended Stay America hotel on Santa Clarita just east of Second Avenue.

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Newspaper: Sierra Madre News

Date: October 2, 1997

Pages: p. 9

Newspaper: Sierra Madre News

Date: October 2, 1997

Pages: p. 9

Subjects: Business & Industry - Extended Stay America Hotel

Item ID: 10634AN

Collection: Newspaper Index

Oakwood Hotel. On right edge of photo, Santa Fe steam engine is coming into view. There are four men seen standing near Hotel. There is a man in a buggy with two horses standing in shade of what appears to be an oak tree. One lady stands on second floor porch.

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Date: c.1890

1 image

Date: c.1890

Subjects: Oakwood Hotel

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 897

Collection: Photographs

Images

Close up of ad in first Arcadia newspaper, Arcadia Bulletin. The ad is for the Bonita Hotel. Ben Newman is listed as proprietor.

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Date: May 7, 1904

1 image

Date: May 7, 1904

Subjects: Bonita Hotel; Newspapers-Arcadia Bulletin

Physical Description: 8x10 b&w

ID: 1086

Collection: Photographs

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City of Homes is rapidly becoming the city of hotel rooms with the Extended Stay Hotel under construction and two more hotels planned.

View of Oakwood Hotel, close enough to show its brick construction. There appears to be a bird cage on front terrace of Hotel.

Images

View of Oakwood Hotel from across the railroad tracks. On the front of the photo is written, "Lucky Baldwin's Oakwood Hotel Arcadia - Calif. 1895." There are several people standing in front of the hotel. A carriage is to the left by the large oak tree.

Images

General information re Oakwood Hotel

By February 14, 1985, the Granada Royale Hometel will be known as the Embassy Suite Hotel. The hotel was purchased in April 1984 by Embassy Suites, a subsidiary of Holiday Inn.

Three tally-hos are seen parked in front of the Oakwood Hotel. Sign on the front of the hotel reads BALDWIN'S HOTEL OAKWOOD. The middle tally-ho has a white horse. There are people sitting in the tally-hos and one man standing at the rear of the middle tally-ho.

Images

Articles regarding Eaton's Santa Anita Hotel and Restaurant.

Side view photo of Oakwood Hotel with a Tally Ho stopped here with its full party. Hotel was built in 1889 and was situated about where parking lot of the Sportsrock Cafe is now.

Images

Le Meridien hotel by Marriott to break ground next week on the former site of Santa Anita Inn. See hard copy in VF Hotels and Motels.

Two hotels are being proposed for redevelopment property along Huntington Drive in Arcadia, potentially creating a "hotel row" between East Arcadia and West Monrovia.

Oakwood Hotel seen as just a brick shell immediately after the fire which destroyed it.

Images

Images

Photo of a page from the 1907 Los Angeles Racing Association Souvenir Booklet showing "Large oak tree, Hotel Oakwood, Baldwin's Ranch." The Oakwood Hotel is just visible to the right of the photo. The large oak tree dominates the center of the photo.

Images

A statue to honor Anita M. Baldwin, daughter of Arcadia's founder Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin, will be built at the new Le Meridien Hotel, a luxury hotel in Arcadia. The artist/sculptor is Alfred Paredes, who also created the Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin statue.

Huntington Bank on First Avenue between Wheeler and Santa Clara Streets. Former site of Oakwood Hotel.

Images

There was a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday for an Extended Stay America hotel on Santa Clarita just east of Second Avenue.

Oakwood Hotel. On right edge of photo, Santa Fe steam engine is coming into view. There are four men seen standing near Hotel. There is a man in a buggy with two horses standing in shade of what appears to be an oak tree. One lady stands on second floor porch.

Images

Close up of ad in first Arcadia newspaper, Arcadia Bulletin. The ad is for the Bonita Hotel. Ben Newman is listed as proprietor.

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