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In 1970 the hotel was sold to an owner who changed the building into art studios on the upper floors and the
Pasadena Repertory Theatre under artist director Duane Waddell in a large space on the ground floor. In 1973, the Pasadena Repertory Theatre won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for
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By June, 1985 The Hotel Carver was empty. The building was later remodeled and earthquake retrofitted. The interior was gutted of its redwood framing to install an elevator and more modern steel framework. The massive ornate wooden staircase with turned wood balustrade was removed. The original lath
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From the 1970s through the late 1980s a controversial mural adorned the north facade of The Hotel Carver. It was a simple quotation, painted in tall, dark green letters on a cool gray background. It said, "'My people are the people of the dessert,' said T.E. Lawrence, picking up his fork." It was
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During the years from 1970 until the building was sold in 1985, The Hotel Carver, as it was still called by its residents, held the studios of well over 100 artists, writers, musicians, directors, dancers, tapestry weavers, and other artists. Tenants during parts of that time included notables such
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where many famous, but unconfirmed musicians were reported to have played. In the 1950s, as part of a widening of Fair Oaks Avenue, the
Victorian bay windows and turret on the southeast corner were removed from the building and similar structures were removed from other buildings to the north. In
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Pasadena Museum of History, it originally was a showroom for a stage coach or carriage company. In later years it was a freight depot for the Pasadena and Los Angeles Railroad, which became part of the
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In the 1940s it was purchased by Percy Carter and his family, and became
Pasadena's first black-owned hotel. The name was changed to "The Hotel Carver," after George Washington Carver. It was directly across the street from the
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Newtown Pasadena, a group of artists from the Carver came together for a one-evening reunion art show on the sidewalk in front of the building called "A Brief Re-birth of The Hotel Carver."
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