THE CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT
PARKS AND PARKWAYS
PARKWAYS
The second extended an east-west axis to Carmelita, which would finally become a public park. The third advanced Myron Hunt’s “Arroyo Park Plan,” building his design for the Rose Bowl and linking Pasadena to the Arroyo Seco.
THE CIVIC CENTER: A CITY HALL, LIBRARY & AUDITORIUM Astronomer George E. Hale built on the momentum of the City Beautiful Association’s efforts. Design competitions in the early 1920s, produced a new Central Library (by Myron Hunt), a new City Hall (by the architects of San Francisco’s City Hall, Bakewell and Brown) and the Pasadena Civic Auditorium (by Bennett and Haskell). These three buildings were constructed between 1922 and 1931. George E. Hale
CENTRAL LIBRARY MEMORIAL PARK
CITY HALL
COLORADO ST
CIVIC AUDITORIUM
The Bennett Civic Center Plan of 1923 Designed by Edward H. Bennett, this plan created a two axis framework for development that Pasadena still endeavors to follow, preserve, and restore a century later.
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