The ornate three-story Baker Block was completed around 1877 by Colonel Robert S. Baker. For a number of years, the building housed offices, shops, and apartments. Goodwill Industries of Southern California purchased it in 1919. Despite plans to relocate the structure for another purpose, the city purchased the Baker Block from Goodwill in 1941 and demolished it a year later. U.S. Route 101 now runs beneath where the building once stood. The southeast corner of N. Main Street (foreground) and Arcadia Street (lower left) showing the French Second Empire style Baker Block.
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