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HISTORY OP PASADENA. 



carried through here. The main building and the wings are four stories 

 high, the dining room wing, two stories. The tower is 104 feet high, seven 

 stories. There are forty-three bath rooms in the house, and forty water 

 closets. The hotel grounds comprise fifty-five acres. The building cost 

 $300,000." 



The bricks for the foundation walls, chimneys, etc., were made by 

 Simons & Hubbard from Los Angeles, at a yard which they then started on 

 the Raymond grounds, east of where the great stable is now ; and the 

 Valley Union of November 13, 1885, reported forty masons and carpenters 

 then at work, and said, "the brick work will all be done this week except 

 the kitchen"; also that " 1,300,000 bricks will be used altogether." The 

 brick laying for the ovens and chimneys was done by Robert W. L,acy 

 of Pasadena, after whom DeLacy street was named by his son-in-law, 

 A. F. Mills. Mr. O. J. Muchmore from Ivcbanon, New Hampshire, was 

 general superintendent of the entire construction work, from the first foun- 

 dation brick to the last roof shingle. He had previously built large hotels 

 in Florida and the Bermuda Islands. 



From the day that the elder Raymond took a hand in the enterprise, 

 the construction work went on steadily and vigorously to completion,* and 

 opening day was set for November 17, i886. Of this historic event I copy 

 the report of the Valley Union of November 20, 1886, which says : 



"Wednesday evening, November 17, 1886, will mark the date of the 

 most notable and brilliant event that bas yet occurred in Southern California. 

 The occasion was the formal opening of the Raymond Hotel. At an early 

 hour guests began to arrive in carriages, and at nine o'clock two heavily 

 loaded trains had arrived from lyos Angeles, and as the throng passed up 

 the main avenue, lighted on either side with Chinese lanterns, the scene was 



RAYMOND DEPOT, SANTA FE LINE. 

 Romanesque Architecture. 



* The Raymond depot of the Santa Fe railroad has only a rear view of the great hotel. The elder 

 Raymond objected to this, saying with emphasis, " I don't want my guests dumped down in my slop- 

 yard." And there was some talk of running the railroad around south and east of Raymond hill, with 

 a depot on its east slope ; but it was not done. There was also talk of a tunnel from the present depot 

 in under the hotel, then ascend by elevator ; but this it was found would be too costly a job to under- 

 take. 



