https://www.barcelonaofpasadena.com/gallery daily 0.75 2018-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487139943686-SIT88DS2B8MGB7G1BEHK/History+doc.png Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487139943686-SIT88DS2B8MGB7G1BEHK/History+doc.png Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140290494-ICYM2X7ZOL31YI1QOXI8/89_AR15030691_2_1423785996_636x435.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140337880-YO6AJ4QNEG3TULM45YW4/64006b6d-422e-4fb0-863b-beb897548a88.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140302301-D1EF9P8QAVYNRU98XP98/20_316009742_3_1481745838_636x435.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140308810-NGQHPLPHSUOFVUZKCL87/BarcelonaGrandEntryV.JPG Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140314687-RXFGCM7WPA428HWXF9ZT/275527008c7f00fb-14-736423.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140503622-79S7D5AMLBVBXX4KNJP4/316007538_1.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140311154-V6UHEJINQHVRBWDSP75N/316007538_30_3.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487140312888-98IW4CDO70EGH6VWPJ4M/316007538_2_2.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1535752832828-4MDLO9TNXZ4XV59D2B27/IMG_0833.jpg Gallery - Barcelona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1535752880579-QTDDIFO3LCLIWFMEOPJN/IMG_0833.jpg Gallery https://www.barcelonaofpasadena.com/management-information daily 0.75 2022-04-29 https://www.barcelonaofpasadena.com/home daily 1.0 2019-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1487142379730-X9RF1RCOU8WRJQL7KDYI/lobby.png Home The Lobby of The Barcelona https://www.barcelonaofpasadena.com/forms-and-documents daily 0.75 2023-05-27 https://www.barcelonaofpasadena.com/history-in-brief daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1578372110335-D5X1FZCJP3WX84KQYC5V/AD+CLOPS.jpg History in Brief From 1922 to 1924, The Littleton Company advertised in the Pasadena Star-News and Pasadena Evening Post, as well as the Los Angeles Times. The Littleton Company became known for quality and innovation. The Barcelona was their biggest project, before closing their doors midway into supervising the construction of The Pasadena Playhouse, in 1924. Source: Pasadena Public Library microfilms of Star-News and Evening Post; Newspapers.com for LA Times ads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581916543840-3A5CY3OLGY5RKX6ZF5XY/p15150coll2_2484_full.jpg History in Brief A 1924 neighborhood view, looking south and east from the corner of Madison Ave. and East Colorado Blvd., (where Urth Café is in 2020). The Pasadena Playhouse is seen rising up in construction in the background. A used car lot in front shows one mode of transport back in the day, and the tracks center street show another: Pacific Electric Red Cars. The Littleton Company offices were at 608 East Colorado, just out of frame on the left side. Photo: Harold A. Parker Collection of Negatives and Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1578427980056-YDRTMA3WOTRKXVW33Y2H/barcelona%252Bphoto%252BR.jpg History in Brief A 1928 street view of The Barcelona Ownership Apartments by Harold Parker, whose studio was on the southwest corner of E. Colorado and S. Madison (now demolished). Photo: Harold A. Parker Collection of Negatives and Photographs, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1578418999359-WSWHU3EB34FM6L6ZQADS/IMG_8451.jpg History in Brief City Hall was built in 1929. The Barcelona Ownership Apartments can be seen in the background of this 1940 aerial, if you know where to look! Hint: Bottom photo, top third, center. Photo: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1578442058507-BVU5DTHZWWIRF1BPO68Z/Architectural_painting_Pasadena_Playhouse.jpg History in Brief Pasadena Playhouse design, March 24, 1923 by Elmer Grey. Nameplate says: Pasadena Community Playhouse. The Littleton Co. Contractors & Builders. Elmer Grey, Architect. Image from the Los Angeles Public Library; Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection. Reprinted with permission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1578427898397-DRHIXC8PO592XSMEI95M/C%252BH%252BS%252BLITTLETON.jpg History in Brief Covington Henry Scott Littleton, 1860 - 1942. Image from his book “Money & Prosperity,” an economic treatise he wrote in favor of William Jennings Bryan’s plea for bi-metalism, (silver and gold as U. S. Currency,) written in between Bryan’s two failed attempts to beat William McKinley for U. S. President. McKinley favored the gold standard, absent of silver. Littleton owned interests in silver mines in Arizona, and sided with the working man over the East Coast Bankers, despite being a wealthy Philadelphia capitalist himself. Photo: Money and Prosperity by C. H. S. Littleton, published 1898 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1578371969023-E42485LT6ZXWFNNAXD0Z/Screen+Shot+2019-09-01+at+9.23.46+PM.png History in Brief Scott Littleton, after completing The Barcelona, went on to become a writer/director in Hollywood from the dawn of “The Talkies” to the time of TVs incursion on the entertainment scene. Source: screen grab from YouTube video: Chapter 1 of PERILS OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED, a western movie serial made by Columbia in 1942 starring Robert Kellard. https://www.barcelonaofpasadena.com/architects daily 0.75 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581914462272-6XONQNSNEVD0LOXLJD99/Stillman+Jamieson+House.jpg Architects The Stillman B. Jamieson House is one of three remaining mansions that once overlooked Terrace Drive on Millionaire’s Row in Pasadena. Now surrounded by the Ambassador college campus, the Italian villa was built by retired Chicago judge Stillman B. Jamieson and designed by Walter C. Folland, immediately after he completed The Barcelona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581914889754-P5M29ZUPX7P2QEW90QCQ/Folland+Sepia.jpg Architects Walter C. Folland, architect of The Barcelona of Pasadena. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581917840306-TITVS7AHTI31584Z0EYO/Planned+at+Once.jpg Architects As The Barcelona Apartments were nearing completion, and the fundraising for the Pasadena Playhouse solidifying, this Pasadena Star-News story heralded the collaboration between The Littleton Company, architect Elmer Grey and the community. Source: Pasadena Star-News, March 17, 1923. Pasadena Public Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581908891142-ZFM2BFQKBQRUMKVVM7IC/The_Los_Angeles_Times_Sun__May_6__1923_.jpg Architects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581907981724-NV07GZNAD8TK8LXA73C6/Mother_Goose_Pantry+crowd.jpg Architects Mother Goose Pantry on the Mother Road - Route 66. Designed by Folland, it opened in 1928 at 1955 East Colorado, and was torn down some time in the 1950s. Image courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library, Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection. See also Pasadena PIO: Mystery History. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a393672e69cf5baf929b4d/1581915868225-14EAL0N6J38451BSA7TB/USSMR+Photo.jpg Architects It’s long forgotten today, which of these smokestacks, towers or outbuildings Walter C. Folland designed when he worked at the U. S. Refining & Smelting Co., in his early career. But it does seem to indicate why he may have relocated to Pasadena for blue skies and better building opportunities.