Fire Destroys Historic Bungalow
A suspected arson fire Saturday destroyed a historic bungalow that was abandoned and overrun by weeds but had been part of an elegant Pasadena resort in the 1920s.
The fire that gutted the structure by the former Vista del Arroyo Hotel at Grand Avenue near Green Street and threatened others may have been set by two teenagers seen running out of the brushy three-acre lot about 2:45 p.m., said Pasadena Fire Department arson investigator Steve Lawhorn.
A building housing a branch of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, several lots away from the bungalows, was once part of the hotel.
No one was injured in the fire.
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