Editing Old Pasadena (section)

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[[File:St. Andrew's Catholic Church (Pasadena, California).JPG|200px|thumb|St. Andrew's Catholic Church on Raymond Avenue and Chestnut Street]]
In 1887, a [[Chicago]] land speculator named Morgan built a three-story block next to the site of the County Jail. In 1895, John Woodbury built a modest office building for himself which he shared with [[Jared Sidney Torrance|Jared S. Torrance]]. This building was replaced by the Marsh Block in 1902, which took up the whole corner lot of Raymond and Kansas south of the Morgan. In 1894 Van der Vort constructed the building that still bears his name at 32 S. Raymond. In 1889, Robert MacComber built the MacComber block on the northwest corner of Raymond and Kansas. In 1906 Braley built a bike manufacturing building, which eventually became an [[Oldsmobile]] dealership.

In 1887, a three-story Victorian red-brick building with bay windows and a turret on the southeast corner was constructed at 107 South Fair Oaks on the northwest corner at Dayton Street. It was named the "Doty Block" and housed a [[stagecoach]] showroom.  In later years, it became The Mikado Hotel, which served the Japanese-American community.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pasadena|website=California Japantowns|url=http://www.californiajapantowns.org/pasadena.html|access-date=21 December 2016}}</ref>  It became a freight depot for the [[Los Angeles Pacific Railroad#Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric Railway|Pasadena and Los Angeles Railroad]], which later became part of the [[Pacific Electric Railway]].  Above the second floor windows on the south wall, the faint lettering "Pasadena and Los Angeles" that advertised that service can be seen today.

During the 1900s to the 1940s, Downtown Pasadena went through rapid change as the city's population was continuously growing. Despite The Depression that occurred in the 1930s, Downtown Pasadena continued developing. Its hotels were converted into industrial, manufacturing and research offices.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cityofpasadena.net/about-pasadena/history-of-pasadena/#1527004458863-1fd3502d-d63d|title=Heritage: A Short History of Pasadena|last=N/A|date=2019|website=City of Pasadena}}</ref> The transition of Downtown Pasadena from a tourist destination to an industrial site allowed for the area to continue its expansion and growth.

In the 1940s, the building became Pasadena's first black-owned hotel, the [[The Hotel Carver|Hotel Carver]], when it was purchased and operated by Percy Clark and his sons Percy Jr., Robert and Littleton. In the basement was a prominent jazz club known first as the Onyx Club and later as the Cobra Club. In 1970, the hotel was sold and the building was converted into artist and performance studios. Over the next fifteen years, hundreds of artists, musicians, writers, dancers and filmmakers rented space at the Hotel Carver. The building was best known during this period for the John Bull English Pub, operated by Danny and Denise Sharp, and for the quirky word mural by Paul Waszink on the north wall reading: ''"My people are the people of the dessert," said [[T.E. Lawrence]], picking up his fork.''  Several art shows were held in the third-floor ballroom<ref>^ Keller, L., Four man show at Carver Hotel, Pasadena Star News, July 13, 1979</ref> and other parts of the building. In 1985, the artists were evicted and the building closed.<ref>Burry, Jennifer “Opening new windows onto Old Pasadena: Artists reclaim trendy enclave. Pasadena Star-News, 111 (229), p. A1, Friday August 16, 1996</ref> The [[1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake]] caused the collapse of the building immediately to the north of the Carver, and caused a large section of bricks on the top of the north wall to fall to the ground, destroying part of Waszink's T.E. Lawrence mural. Following the earthquake, the north wall was re-bricked and the building remodeled and earthquake retrofitted, as part of the general redevelopment of Old Pasadena.

Robertson Motors built an auto factory just south of the Green Hotel Annex, which is now occupied by Fishbeck Furnishings.

In 1911, City Hall occupied a building at Union Street and Fair Oaks Avenue. Since then, City Hall has moved several times, and the building was lost, only to be replaced in 2003 by a quasi replica now known as the Container Store.{{Clarify|date=July 2015}} The [[California National Guard]] used several buildings in Old Pasadena before they built The Armory on Raymond above Holly. The old brick building on Holly across from the senior center was a National Guard motor depot.

In 1929, Colorado Street (now [[Colorado Boulevard]]) was widened on the north side, and many of the elaborate Victorian facades of the buildings were lost to reconstruction and replaced with cheaper and more modern frontages. Colorado Street became 14 feet wider as a result. In 1929, Kansas Street was widened and renamed Green Street. Union and Holly streets were part of a city gateway that were to lead toward City Hall (1933) from the statue and flag at [[Orange Grove Boulevard (Pasadena)|Orange Grove Boulevard]] and Colorado Boulevard. The whole plan was scaled down, but the streets were put in.