
The Story of Spadra
Follow Spadra’s changing fortunes through transportation, the Phillips Mansion, its cemetery, and the preservation of an early Pomona community.
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Explore the neighborhoods, streets, landmarks, and buildings that shaped Pomona. These stories connect Spadra, downtown, and historic residential areas with the people who lived and worked there, using surviving places and documented sources to explain change.

Follow Spadra’s changing fortunes through transportation, the Phillips Mansion, its cemetery, and the preservation of an early Pomona community.

Read downtown Pomona through its evening lights, theater architecture, galleries, music venues, and the historical images that reveal change.

Learn to read Pomona’s historic homes through their architecture, neighborhood setting, documentary records, and the lives that gave them meaning.