On this site, once stood one of the most elegant homes on South Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena’s “Millionaires’ Row.” In April of 1902, John Durand purchased 10 acres of property known as “Arlington Heights.” After the existing Victorian home was removed, a team of skilled workmen spent more than three years building the reconstruction of…
Mediterannean garden
Photography Monday: Arlington Garden
Arlington Garden is Pasadena’s only dedicated public garden. It is an example of urban open space complete with plazas, paseos, and gardens. Styled with an Italian style olive allee, numerous succulent and cactus gardens, an Arroyo Seco like pathway flanked by sycamores leading to a vernal pool, an orange grove laid out in grids like historical California orange groves, and…