E. J. Baldwin's Queen Anne Cottage

Elias Jackson Baldwin built this in 1885 and 1886, probably as a honeymoon present for his fourth wife, Lillie Bennett, who was sixteen and whose father drew the plans. The marriage lasted about a year. Left with a honeymoon house and nobody to honeymoon with, Baldwin turned it into a memorial to his third wife, Jennie Dexter, dead since 1881, and had her face set in stained glass for the front door and painted nearly life size for the parlor. Both are still there.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 4.3 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 6.2 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.
• Santa Monica Pier — 27 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.

More markers nearby

• Reid-Baldwin Adobe — steps away
• Temporary Detention Camp for Japanese Americans, Santa Anita — 0.5 mi
• Savannah Memorial Park — 4.2 mi
• Mission San Gabriel Arcángel — 4.3 mi