Photograph (streetscape, horizontal photography) of the Church of the Angels, 1100 North Avenue 64, Highland Park (near Garvanza?), Los Angeles, ca.1895-1899. The Victorian-style church is about four-stories tall. It features a clock tower, inclined roofs, and stone masonry walls. A built to surround the property also is made of stone masonry. Trees surround the property. Hills are visible in the background. "The church was originally built in 1889 for Mrs. Alexander Campbell-Johnston in memory of her late husband. It was designed by Architect Ernest Coxhead and was built in a style reminiscent of a church that Mrs. Campbell-Johnston remembered from her native Scotland. This photo also shows stone wall that appears to be under construction along Avenue 64, then Mountain Avenue. The wall was designed in 1895 by Architect Fred L. Rohrig." -- unknown author. "Church of the Angels is located on Avenue 64 and Church Street, Highland Park. The story of how a charming stone Victorian church came to stand on what was once a Spanish land grant goes something like this: In 1798 land was granted to Jose Maria Verdugo, an area encompassing thousands of acres of what we now call Pasadena and Burbank. It was known then as Rancho San Rafael. The Verdugos prospered; the land was handed down to children and children's children. But the prosperity passed and hard times forced descendants of Jose Maria to sell much of the land. In 1869 a man named Prudent Beaudry lived up to his name by gaining several thousand acres of Rancho San Rafael in a loan forfeiture. He went on to become mayor of Los Angeles in 1874. About a decade later, a British diplomat named Alexander Robert Campbell-Johnson visited Southern California. He must have liked what he saw, because in 1883 he and his wife, Frances, purchased 2,000 acres from Beaudry. They quickly developed the land for farming, turned over operations to their sons and left for England. A few years later, Alexander and Frances returned to the r
Photograph of a bridge across the Arroyo Seco at Garvanza, showing the first cable-car to cross it, ca.1895. A group of eighteen people pose around and in front of a cable-car coming across the trestle from Cawston's Ostrich Farm in South Pasadena, approaching the U.S.C. College of Fine Arts in Garvanza. The man at the controls is named G.J. Roller. The L.A. and San Gabriel Valley Railroad, completed in 1885, is visible in the background crossing a second trestle across the arroyo. A hill is visible in the left distance.
