Editing Old Pasadena (section)

=== Castle Green ===
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[[File:HotelgreenWesternArch1905.JPG|300px|thumb|the Castle Green]]
As Pasadena's population grew in the late 19th and early 20th century, grand hotels were built which established Pasadena's national reputation as a winter tourist destination for the wealthy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.oldpasadena.org/about/history-of-old-pasadena/|title=History of Old Pasadena|last=N/A|date=2016|website=Old Pasadena Management District|access-date=May 9, 2019}}</ref> In 1887 Edward C. Webster began construction of a hotel at 1929 Green Street, on the southeast corner of Raymond Avenue and Kansas Street. When he was unable to complete the job, a newcomer to the area, Colonel [[George Gill Green]], took over the construction and finished the [[Hotel Green|Green Hotel]], which opened in 1888.

Green was a friend of [[Andrew McNally]], a prominent printer from [[Chicago]] who had moved West and made his home in [[Altadena, California|Altadena]]. McNally had invited Green to come out and join him in this new community. Together Green and McNally invested heavily in the short-lived [[Los Angeles Terminal Railway|Altadena Railroad]], which provided them private sidings at their residences and which Green rode daily to the construction site of his new hotel. Green and Andrew McNally were next door neighbors on Mariposa Street just west of [[Lake Avenue (Pasadena)|Lake Avenue]]. The [[Andrew McNally House|McNally home]] still stands and the old Green carriage house remains in use as a residence, and is visible from the rear parking lot of the [[Altadena Library District|Altadena Library]], which stands on the site of the Green house.

The new Green Hotel was a 6-story edifice that faced Central Park on South Raymond, just north of the original Victorian Pasadena Train Station, where trains stopped between Chicago and Los Angeles. That station was replaced by [[Del Mar station|the current station]], in the Southwestern style.

In 1898, Green built a grander [[Mediterranean Revival architecture|Mediterranean style]] hotel on the opposite side of Raymond. The first became referred to as the annex, and the second became the winter home for some of the most prominent industrial magnates in the Eastern United States. The two buildings were connected by a bridge across Raymond, and a tunnel under it. Guests arriving by train would pass through the annex, to the second floor, and be trammed across the bridge. In the main residence they would retire to their suites, and the luggage would follow via the tunnel. Many of the servants and attendants of the guests were forced to find accommodation in the adjacent buildings. In 1902 a new wing of the hotel was built along Kansas (now Green) Street to the P.G. Wooster Block, home of [[California Institute of Technology#History|Throop University]] (forerunner to Caltech).

In 1924 the hotel was converted into residential apartments. The original building (annex) was razed to its first floor. All that is left of that original hotel is a portico on the corner of Raymond and Green. The building is now owned by Stats Floral Supply. In 1970, the U.S. government's [[United States Department of Housing and Urban Development|Department of Housing and Urban Development]] acquired the 1902 wing and separated the buildings into the Green Hotel on Green and the Castle Green on Raymond.