El Paseo "Street in Spain" alley between 23 E. De La Guerra St. and the Casa de la Guerra, Santa Barbara, [1930s?]

Item Overview

Title

El Paseo "Street in Spain" alley between 23 E. De La Guerra St. and the Casa de la Guerra, Santa Barbara, [1930s?]

Architect

Smith, George Washington, 1876-1930
Riggs, Lutah Maria, 1896-1984

Date Created

[1930s?]

Date

1930/1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Casa de la Guerra was built in the 1820s for the Presidio Comandante, José Antonio de la Guerra y Noriega. It was renovated in 1922-1923 as part of the El Paseo shopping area by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs.
View down El Paseo "Street in Spain," a brick or stone-paved alley between an adobe-style building at 23 E. De La Guerra St. with 6 arches, balcony, tile roof, and hanging plants (L) and the Casa de la Guerra lined by potted plants (R). There is a Buddha statue and woman in coat and hat at left, a canopy spanning the alley at far end, and a car visible on E. De La Guerra St. just beyond at the end of the alley.
Possibly related to the article “Art Treasures of World Meet in El Paseo de la Guerra, Santa Barbara’s ‘Street of Spain,’” Los Angeles Times, 29 June 1930

Caption

Handwritten at edge of negative: 2-2, De la Guerra studios
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Santa Barbara, buildings

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

El Paseo (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Casa de la Guerra (Santa Barbara, Calif.)

Location

Santa Barbara (Calif.)

Longitude

34.420562

Latitude

-119.699199

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Buddhas--California--Santa Barbara
Alleys--California--Santa Barbara