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HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Isaac N. Vail: Author of "The Earth's Aqueous Ring "; West- 

 town College, Pa.— 1874. "The Origin of Coal,"— 1884. "The Earth's 

 Annular System "—Cleveland, Ohio, 1885. "The Great Red Dragon,"— 

 1893. Editor " Vail's Annular World"; magazine, Eos Angeles, 1895. 



Mrs. Elizabeth A. Vore : Stories ; poems ; treatises ; periodical 

 literature. 



John W. Wood, Ph. G. : Author of prize report on Pharmacy ; 

 poetry ; periodical literature. 



PASADENA architecture. 



Pasadena is justly famed for the tasteful elegance, the high-art styles 

 and the picturesque diversity of types of its architecture, alike in public 

 buildings, in business blocks, and in private residences. There is no archi- 

 tectural rut of sameness or monotony to be found here. And this historic 

 fact and feature is largely due to Harry Ridgway, the first man who ever 

 opened an architect office and established the business as a regular profession 

 in Pasadena, which he did in 1878, and holds the field j^et — 1895. His 



Allen Dodsworth. 



. Louise T. Conger. 



FOUR SIGHTLY HOMES. 



idea was never to make two buildings exactly alike, but to utilize all the 

 styles known to architectural science, ancient, mediaeval and modern, in 

 new combinations of artistic beauty and perspicuous variety. He never 

 wanted any man to be able to point out any structure and say, " that's one of 

 Ridgway's designs — it shows the earmarks of his style.'" He rather sought 

 and achieved that ideal freedom from " style " called the artlessness of art. 

 And others coming later brought additional novelties. Hence there are 

 many original and diverse combinations of Venetians, Normans, Eastlakes, 

 Old Spanish, Old Plantation, Italian, French Mansards, English and Colo- 

 nial Dormers, Old English Queen Annes, Old English Elizabethans, multi- 



