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A home built by the Barker family of Barker Brothers fame will be the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. Designed by architect Roland Coate in the early 1940's, the house sits on a large corner lot in the Upper Rancho area of Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18745
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2000
Pages
p. D1 w/photo
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 7, 2000
Pages
p. D1 w/photo
Subjects
Historic houses
Item ID
18989AN
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The Los Angeles Conservancy graded local cities on their efforts to preserve historic buildings. Arcadia was deemed a preservation truant and received a report card grade of F.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 13, 2003
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 13, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Historic Buildings
Preservation
Item ID
27091AN
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Pasadena Junior Philharmonic Committee has selected an Arcadia estate as the Pasadena Showcase House of Design. It was designed by Roland E. Coates, Sr., for Lawrence and Josephine Garat Wilcox Barker of Barker Brothers Furniture fame.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18609
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2000
Pages
p. Homebuyer 8
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2000
Pages
p. Homebuyer 8
Subjects
Historic houses
Barker, Lawrence and Josephine Garat Wilcox
Coates, Roland E., Sr.
Item ID
18853AN
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University of Southern California (USC) teacher Sam Watters' two-volume book "Houses of Los Angeles 1885-1935" features 700 or so photographs of splendid Los Angeles homes. Twenty-two of the seventy-five houses listed come from Pasadena, Altadena, South Pasadena, San Marino, Arcadia, and La Canada Flintridge.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30747
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 8, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Architecture books
Houses
Watters, Sam
Item ID
30935AN
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The Los Angeles Conservancy gave an F grade to Arcadia, Bradbury, Diamond Bar, El Monte, Industry, La Habra Heights, La Mirada, Monterey Park, Rosemead, Santa Fe Springs, Temple City and Walnut, in a report card of local cities. The cities were judged on whether or not they had an ordinance allowing designation of historic landmarks, how many landmarks are designated, if cities provide for implementation of the Mills Act and other criteria.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31379
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 9, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Historic Buildings
Historic landmarks
Historic preservation
Los Angeles Conservancy
Item ID
31573AN
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The Los Angeles Conservancy opposes The Shops at Santa Anita mall, saying the proposed project may threaten the historic integrity of the 1934 race track. Conservancy officials are most concerned about the 1938 saddling barns and the historic grandstand.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29940
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 2, 2006
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 2, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Caruso project
Shops at Santa Anita
Malls
Los Angeles Conservancy
Conservation
Historic preservation
Santa Anita Park race track
Item ID
30126AN
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The City Council voted unanimously to expand design review for single-family homes citywide. It is the latest effort in the fight against boxy mansions being built in Arcadia. The review board thinks Asian families like the big houses and the Asian families say they do want to fit in with the community.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 17, 2005
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Mansions
Developers
Architecture Design Review
Houses
Item ID
29959AN
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Westfield Group has nominated Santa Anita Park to the National Register of Historic Places, claiming development plans by Caruso Affiliated constitute a threat to the racetrack. Magna Entertainment, owner of the race track, would have to agree to the track being placed on the register. However, placement on the list would not restrict development on the site.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 24, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 24, 2005
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Caruso Affiliated
Magna Entertainment
Mall war
National landmarks
National Register of Historic Places
Preservation
Santa Anita Park race track
Westfield Group
Item ID
29974AN
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Ed Huang, an architect who works as a senior planner for the city of Los Angeles, gives a tour of his "green" home in Arcadia. His house is a model of energy efficiency, using solar panels and other environmentally and ecologically friendly design elements. Huang had been Arcadia's planning commissioner from 1992-2002.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2008
Pages
p. News 1, 10
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 23, 2008
Pages
p. News 1, 10
Subjects
Environment
Homes
Houses
Huang, Ed
Item ID
31177AN
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The Arcadia City Council introduced an ordinance on February 4 that targets over-sized houses and would reduce the scale, mass and bulk of single-family homes. The city wants to avoid the mansionization trend.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25094
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2003
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 11, 2003
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
City Council 2000 - 2009
Housing
Mansionization
Item ID
25289AN
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As median home prices dip throughout Southern California, many local homes are being foreclosed. In 2007, there were 215 foreclosure filings in Arcadia. See chart for figures on surrounding areas.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30943
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 24, 2008
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p. News 1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 24, 2008
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Foreclosures
Houses
Housing market
Item ID
31138AN
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31378
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 5, 2009
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p. B1
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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
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The Department of Housing and Community Development's "regional housing needs allocation plan" requires the city to add nearly 2,150 new residences by 2014.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30942
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2008
Pages
p. News 4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
February 15, 2008
Pages
p. News 4
Subjects
California Department of Housing and Community Development
Housing
Item ID
31137AN
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Carol Libby and Scott Hettrick of the Arcadia Historical Society are both on the Baldwin Adobe Restoration Committee, which wants to restore the Hugo Reid Adobe on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Arboretum. They want to re-create the adobe as it was in its heyday, when Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin lived there from 1875 until he died in 1909.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31725
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 24, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Baldwin Adobe Restoration Committee
Hettrick, Scott
Historic preservation
Hugo Reid Adobe
Libby, Carol
Los Angeles County Arboretum
Item ID
31922AN
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Developers hoping to build 31 houses on land where the Anoakia mansion sits have won a court victory that clears the way for the house to be torn down.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2000
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2000
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Anoakia
Item ID
19501AN
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Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum is advertising for volunteers.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2008
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p. A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 6, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Volunteers
Item ID
31434AN
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City Council voted unanimously to hire a consultant for a citywide survey of historic buildings, with a budget of up to $40,000.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper18186
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2000
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2000
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
City Council, 2000 - 2009
Item ID
18433AN
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Work will get underway by Sept. 1 on the 4000 sq. ft. historical museum to be named after benefactors Ruth and Charles Gilb.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper19284
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2000
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
August 5, 2000
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia Historical Society
Ruth and Charles Gilb Historical Museum
Gilb, Charles
Gilb, Ruth
Item ID
19527AN
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Santa Anita Park race track will unveil a 1000-pound bronze statue of popular race horse John Henry and a historical marker covering 75 years of the race track's history, as part of its 75th anniversary this Saturday. The bronze statue cost more than $100,000. The marker was done by the Arcadia Historical Society.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31853
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 2009
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 24, 2009
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Arcadia Historical Society
Historical markers
Santa Anita Park - 2001-2010 -75th anniversary
Statuary
Item ID
32050AN
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The Arcadia Historical Museum is honoring pioneering women with an exhibit titled "Daring Dames: Women's Firsts in Arcadia."

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper27837
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2004
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 8, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum
Item ID
28034AN
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