Parsons Grant to Pasadena Library
As a memorial to the late Chief Justice R. Wright, the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation has awarded a grant of $300,000 to the Pasadena Public Library Foundation to restore and improve the Central Library Auditorium.
The auditorium restoration will begin in January 1986 and is scheduled for completion the following fall. The remodeling is part of a three-year plan by the newly formed Pasadena Public Library Foundation to restore and preserve the aesthetic features of the Pasadena Central Library, which was designed by the late architect Myron Hunt and opened in 1927.
Chief Justice Wright served on the Pasadena Municipal Court before being appointed to the California Supreme Court in 1970. After his retirement in 1977, he joined the Parsons Foundation board. He was also the first chairman of the Pasadena Historical Society’s library.
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