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the father died in April, 1891 ; and then A. J. Painter died in November, 

 1893, in the midst of his plans for further development, and they had to 

 be abandoned. This hotel, with its adjunct grounds, livery barn, etc., 

 represents an investment of about $80,000. 



HoTKL Green. — The Hotel Green Co. was first projected in March, 

 1891, by Col. G. G. Green of Woodbury, New Jersey. The first meeting 

 to talk up and arrange for the organization of the company was held in the 

 oflBce of A. R. Metcalfe, Esq., Mr. Green's attorney in Pasadena ; and the 

 organization was finally made in Mr. Metcalfe's office on March 27, 1891, 



HOTEL GREEN. 

 Moresque Architecture. Photo. 1895. 



its members then being Col. G. G. Green, A. R. Metcalfe, H. W. Magee, 

 J. H. Holmes, and J. G. Rossiter. Col. Green was made president, and J. 

 H. Holmes secretary and treasurer. The hotel building was erected in 

 1891-92-93, with a frontage of 301 feet on Raymond Avenue by 91 on 

 Kansas [now Green] street, and five stories high. Its frontages are in 

 Moorish and Roman architecture, but the dining-room is a typical specimen 

 of classic Greek style ; and the whole structure, both internal and external, 

 has won fame as a grand symposium of the most imposing, elegant, chaste 

 and aesthetic elements of architectural science, scarcely excelled in New 



