The 2024 Golden Poppy Awards, Student Art Contest, and Garden Party
The 2024 Golden Poppy AwardsStudent Art Contest, and Garden PartySaturday, May 4th • 2:00 - 4:30 pmWe invite you to join your neighbors to celebrate the beautiful front yards in our town. Teams of dedicated judges have been walking and viewing every street in town to...
Mountain View and the American Cemetery
In the early years Pasadena, settlers buried their dead in their yards down by the Arroyo.
Letter From the Chair
As a new year approaches, I thought this would be the perfect time to look back at 2023…
Thank You, Tree Committee!
Altadena Heritage’s Tree Committee, with support from Southern California Edison, found homes…
The Giddings Family and Mountain View
They purchased…the old Millard claim, about one hundred acres in all, and settled there in 1878.
Margaret Collier Graham – Foothills First Lady 1877 -1913
Margaret Collier Graham attracted writers, artists, thinkers and luminaries as friends.
John Corneby Wilson Austin 1870 – 1963 Master Architect of Southern California
John Corneby Wilson Austin was born and educated in Oxfordshire England. He apprenticed with…
Kate Crane Gartz – 1865-1949 – Altadena’s Parlor Provocateur Was More Than That
Among the most notable of many prominent Chicagoans settling in Altadena after the turn…
Wallace Neff – Architect of a Golden Era 1895-1982
His maternal grandfather, Andrew McNally, made a fortune as co-founder of the renowned Rand McNally Map Co.
Octavia Butler – She Imagined Other Worlds 1947-2006
As an African American woman in a predominantly white and male genre, she brought new perspectives to the forefront.
Richard Feynman – Physicist, Artist, Nobel Laureate 1918-1988
As a theoretical physicist Feynman made numerous cutting edge contributions to human understanding of the universe.
Owen Brown Signs
On December 9, the Owen Brown Gravesite Committee unveiled interpretive signs on El Prieto Fire Road Trail.