The Castle Green

by Jenny Revitz Soper

Title

The Castle Green

Artist

Jenny Revitz Soper

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Photograph - Photograph - Sepia

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The Castle Green is one of Pasadena, California's most unique buildings. Built in 1898, it was originally the annex for the famous Hotel Green and is an imposing seven-story structure that features Moorish, Colonial, and Spanish architectural styles. The Castle Green is situated next to Central Park in Old Pasadena, located at the corner of Raymond and Green Street.

The building was constructed by Col. George G. Green, who was in the Patent Medicine business. It was opened in 1899 as the second of three buildings in the Hotel Green complex, which was a lavish resort for easterners and others who wanted to escape winter rigors. The architect, Frederick I. Roehrig, blended domes, arches, pillars, balconies, and verandahs in a building of structural steel with brick walls and concrete floors. This made it Pasadena's first fireproof building. Roehrig tied it to the first part of the hotel complex by an ornate enclosed bridge crossing Raymond Avenue.

The Hotel Green became the social center of Pasadena, playing host to vacationing tycoons, presidents, the Tournament of Roses, and the Valley Hunt Club. At the end of the resort era, the west annex was purchased by a group of regular hotel guests. In 1924, the investors divided the hotel complex into three parts. The Central Annex was divided into fifty individually owned units, and it remains that way today, renamed the Castle Green.

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