Editing Pasadena, California (section)

===Resort town===
[[File:Detroit Photographic Company (0050) - Hotel Green pedestrian bridge, Pasadena, California.jpg|thumb|left|The former [[Hotel Green]] in 1900]]
The region drew people from across the country. In 1887, the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway]] opened its Second District and began making stops at the [[Santa Fe Depot (Pasadena)|Santa Fe Depot]] in downtown Pasadena.<ref name="train">{{cite web |title=Cities: Pasadena, CA |url=http://www.trainweb.com/cities/city_pas.html |website=trainweb.com |access-date=May 15, 2011 |archive-date=September 27, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927063248/http://www.trainweb.com/cities/city_pas.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This triggered a real estate boom. Tourist hotels were developed in the city. Pasadena became a winter resort for wealthy Easterners, spurring the development of new neighborhoods and business districts, and increased road and transit connections with Los Angeles. In 1940, when the [[Arroyo Seco Parkway]], California's first freeway, connected Pasadena to Downtown Los Angeles. By that time, Pasadena had become the eighth-largest city in California and was widely considered a [[Twin cities (geographical proximity)|twin city]] to Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pasadena Freeway First Freeway in Western U.S<!-- Bot generated title --> |url=http://www.laalmanac.com/transport/tr29.htm |access-date=September 12, 2014 |archive-date=January 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100103055538/http://laalmanac.com/transport/tr29.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Pasadena, looking north along Fair Oaks Avenue from Colorado Street, ca.1910 (CHS-5366) (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Downtown Pasadena, c. 1910]]
The first of the hotels to be established in Pasadena was the Raymond (1886) atop Bacon Hill, renamed Raymond Hill after construction. The original Mansard Victorian 200-room facility burned down on Easter morning of 1895, was rebuilt in 1903, and razed during the Great Depression to make way for residential development. The Maryland Hotel existed from the early 1900s and was demolished in 1934.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}} The world-famous [[Mount Lowe Railway]] and associated mountain hotels shut down four years later due to fire damage. Three hotel structures have survived, the Green Hotel (a co-op since 1926), the Vista Del Arroyo (now used as a Federal courthouse), and a residential tower of the Maryland at 80 North Euclid Avenue (a co-op since 1953).<ref>Thomas D. Carpenter, Pasadena: Resort Hotels and Paradise, March Sheldon Publishing (Azusa, California), 1984, pp. 147-169.</ref>

The [[American Craftsman]] era in art and design is well represented in Pasadena. The architectural firm [[Greene and Greene]] developed the style; many of its residences still stand. Two examples of their [[Ultimate bungalow]] are the masterpiece [[Gamble House (Pasadena, California)|Gamble House]], of which public tours are available, and the [[Robert R. Blacker House]], both designated [[California Historical Landmark]]s and enrolled on the U.S. [[National Register of Historic Places]].