San Francisco architects John R. Bakewell Jr. and Arthur Brown Jr., who had designed San Francisco’s lavish domed City Hall a decade earlier, won Pasadena’s architectural design contest.

Explore them with this easy-to-follow driving tour: Start at Pasadena City Hall (100 N. Garfield Ave.). San Francisco architects John Bakewell Jr. and Arthur Brown Jr., who designed their hometown ...

Influenced by the early Renaissance style of 16th century Italian architect Andrea ... then chairman of Pasadena Heritage, Catherine Harp, said Brown created City Hall as a ‘baroque fantasy ...

Pasadena City Hall’s iconic architecture and ease of access makes it an understandable backdrop for photographers. “If they want a castle, I bring them here,” said Jorge Flores, a Los ...