Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category
Friday, July 11th, 2008
by tanya
Today I attended a very good practicum session put on by the City of Riverside Cultural Heritage Board at the recently renovated Arlington Branch Library. The event was sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the keynote speaker was Donovan Rypkema on the economics of historic ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
by tanya
Wanna see something cool? Go to http://www.historicaerials.com/ and navigate to Riverside. Pan over to Magnolia Center and click on the 1948 aerials. Select “dissolve on” and then click to the 1967 aerials. The changes you see fade into view are astonishing. I think I ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
by tanya
For this profile, visit John Campbell's super webpage, Design, Music, Movies and Other Stuff. I'm sure we have some other beauties designed by this internationally recognized firm, but the one I know is Brockton Arcade in Magnolia Center.
John Campbell is an architect who previously worked with Ladd and Kelsey ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
by tanya
A brief summary for the architect of Central Fire Station and the Riverside Main Library:
Bolton C. Moise, Jr., A.I.A. came to inland Southern California after he was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946. The following year, he set up his practice in downtown Riverside, and over the ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
by tanya
No, my digital is not out of the shop yet. However, I couldn't bear to be away from the action and so hauled out my 35mm for a jaunt around the town a few weeks ago. There are new pictures on ModernRiverside.com as a result, mostly in the ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
by tanya
I figured if it was good enough for the LA Times coverage of the recent wildfires, it was good enough for ModernRiverside.com. So check out the Google Map of Modern Riverside Resources to get a spatial feel for the Riverside Modscape.
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
by tanya
Pasadena Heritage and Historic Resources Group recently completed a historic context statement for Pasadena's Recent Past. The document provides some good history for Pasadena in the post-WWII era. More important, its appendices have an extensive list of architects and master-builders who were active in postwar southern California. ...
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