The Pasadena apartment building President Barack Obama lived in between 1980 and 1981 while an undergraduate at Occidental College will be the scene of a commemorative ceremony and honorary plaque unveiling Saturday. Obama spent two years studying at “Oxy,” fr... More »
Caltech alumnus and Associate Howard Jessen (BS ’46) recently donated to Caltech to endow the Howard E. and Susan C. Jessen Postdoctoral Instructorship in the Humanities through a matching program established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The gift will h... More »
The City of Pasadena honored the legacy of William Henry Harrison in a plaque rededication ceremony yesterday. Harrison made history as the first African-American Realtor in Pasadena. Born in 1882, he died in 1955. In the book Pasadena Area History, Harrison... More »
The Jonathan and Karin Fielding Wing, a major addition to the American art galleries at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, will open to the public this Sat., Oct. 22, to reveal “Becoming America: Highlights from the Jonathan and Ka... More »
The City of Pasadena received an award for its “Historic Pasadena” smartphone app, which lets users learn about the city’s culture and landmarks by blending history with modern technology. The California Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to ... More »
Assistant Professor of History Sarah Gronningsater, who grew up in New York City, played on the same playground nearly every day of her childhood. She did not know it as a child, but from the 1820s to the 1850s, a group of free African American households live... More »
If you were to write the life story of a Nobel laureate, you might be forgiven for wanting to make the early morning call and its immediate aftermath the zenith of the story’s arc, followed by little more than a tuxedo, a speech presented before Swedish royalt... More »
In a move to gain new insights into the U.S. Civil War, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens announced today the public launch of an innovative crowdsourcing project to transcribe and decipher a collection of nearly 16,000 Civil War t... More »
Pasadena Presbyterian Church was the first church in Pasadena. It was established in 1875 and has been based at the corner of East Colorado Boulevard and North Madison Avenue since 1908. Among the church’s unusual innovations was the creation of its own radio ... More »
The Old Mill, known originally as El Molino Viejo, is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. But what makes this historic building and garden so special? The mill was built in 1816 as a corn and wheat mill for Mission San Gabriel and it is the oldest com... More »
Among the more than 10,000 objects in the Pasadena Museum of History’s collection is a silver-mounted vase donated by the Estate of Mary M. Pearson. The ceramic vase is adorned with flowers and other motifs that are covered with a clear, high-gloss, iris glaze... More »
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens has acquired one of the world’s most comprehensive collections on the history of human reproduction, the institution announced today. The Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo Collection on Repro... More »
