Belleview Hotel

This site is the former home of the Belleview Hotel. It was a place to stay after traveling on the Santa Fe Railroad. It was built and opened on April 1, 1887.

Opened on April 1, 1887. As with many of the foothill communities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Glendora had its railroad station and its hotel. After all, future property owners needed a place to stay until they acquired their piece of the California dream. Note: to encourage easterners to come west, for a time in the late 19th Century, the Santa Fe railroad (which served foothill communities) offered tickets from Kansas City to southern California for $11. The Belleview was razed in 1934.

Visible behind several trees, the 2-story Bellevue Hotel was built to be the center of activity in the city of Glendora and was located on Meda Ave. between Vista Bonita and Michigan Ave. It was built by the Glendora Land Company on April 1, 1887, and many years later, was used as a meeting hall known as The Foothill Club.

Glendora was officially incorporated as a City in 1911. In the mid-1930s, nearly all of the city's 4,500 acres of land were cultivated for citrus fruit; by the late 1950s agriculture had given way to large-scale residential development. As of 2006, population of the city known as the "Pride of the Foothills" was estimated at 51,608.

Bellevue Hotel, Glendora, TESSA Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library. Accessed March 18th 2022. https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/110813.

Bellevue Hotel, Glendora, Calisphere University of California. Accessed May 19th 2022. https://calisphere.org/item/996d3a1093d6c7fe733ae7b038fe272b/.