PCAD - Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation, Flintridge Biltmore Hotel, La Cañada Flintridge, CA

AKA: Flintridge Hotel, La Cañada Flintridge, California; Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, La Cañada Flintridge, California

Flintridge, La Cañada Flintridge, CA

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Overview

US Senator Frank Putnam Flint (1862-1929), who represented CA from 1905-1911, commissioned the Pasadena architectural firm of Hunt and Chambers to design this resort hotel in the mid-1920s. Part of the Biltmore chain operated by the Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation, it fell victim to the Depression in 1931, and was sold to the the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose who began a school, the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, on the grounds.

Building History

The Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation chain signed a 10-year lease on the Flintridge Biltmore Hotel in 1928. Frank Putnam Flint, President of the Los Angeles Investment Company, developed the hotel, relying on architect Myron Hunt (1868-1952), who had completed several large hotels previously including the Hotel Maryland (1904), Pasadena, and Ambassador, Los Angeles, (1921).

PCAD id: 5541

Publications

"Flintridge Hotel 1928", Arrowhead, 18, 9/1928. "Flintridge Biltmore Hotel 1929", California Arts and Architecture, 36, 8/1929. Barker Brothers, Furnishing for Public Service, 50-51, c1929. "Hostelry leased at Flintridge", Los Angeles Times, I: 6, 6/9/1928. "Flintridge Hotel notice 1927", Saturday Night, Front cover, 2, 12/31/1927. "Firm of Hunt and Chambers win AIA award for design of Flintridge Biltmore Hotel", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 32, 3/21/1930. "Firm of Hunt and Chambers win AIA award for design of Pasadena Public Library", Southwest Builder and Contractor, 30, 32, 3/21/1930.

Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation, Flintridge Biltmore Hotel, La Cañada Flintridge, CA (1926)

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