Hugo Reid Adobe, or Baldwin adobe, viewed through stone arch, Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, 1938

Item Overview

Title

Hugo Reid Adobe, or Baldwin adobe, viewed through stone arch, Rancho Santa Anita, Arcadia, 1938

Date Created

1938

Date

1938

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

This photograph appears with Los Angeles Times article, March 27, 1938, Rancho Santa Anita, A Los Angeles County Beauty Spot. For many years closed to the public, the thirty-acre Rancho Santa Anita Park, with its lake, fifty-one varieties of shrubs and trees, some of them the largest in Southern California, and its historic buildings of the late E.J. (Lucky) Baldwin occupancy, now is open …
Originally a ranch of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel, founded in 1771, the Rancho Santa Anita had many owners after the secularization of the the missions in 1833. Rancho Santa Anita later became the Arboretum of Los Angeles County.
House with Spanish tile roof, among palm and eucalyptus trees, at end of stone-lined path, viewed through stone arch

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: BALDWIN ADOBE. A portion of this adobe was the first building on the rancho; built in 1839 by Hugo Reid. Baldwin added a wing to the building in 1879, which included his own room, where he lived while on the rancho, and where he died on March 1, 1909.
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 11062 3/22/38 Baldwin House, EJ (Lucky Baldwin)

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Hugo Reid Adobe (Arcadia, Calif.)
Arboretum of Los Angeles County

Location

Arcadia (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Adobe houses--California--Arcadia
Ranches--California--Arcadia
Environment
Arches--California--Arcadia
Landmarks
Rancho Santa Anita (Arcadia, Calif.)