1870s 1876 .Many American historians believe the Anmerican Victorian Age began in 1876 when Reconstruction was coming to a conclusion after the Civil War. Edison Bell Edison develops invents the developed incandescent telephone phonograph light bulb 1870 1875 1880 Model Colony Context Context Citrus Context Gabled roof, usually Typical House steeply pitched Decorative trusses in gables Steeply pitched cross gables Styles Built in usually present Overhanging eaves, usually with Ontario during exposed rafter ends this time period Horizontal and vertical bands (less commonly diagonal) Diagonal or raised from wall surfaces for curving porch emphasis supports Wooden wall cladding (boards or shingles) Queen Anne Eastlake Shingle Stick 1880s 1882 1886 George and William B. Chaffey innovatively Charles Frankish managed the planned the Model Colony complete with a new land company (Ontario Land central boulevard (Euclid Avenue), agricultural and Improvement Company) college (Chaffey College) and a mutual water from 1886 until he purchased its 1889 company (San Antonio Water Co.). The Chaffey holdings in 1912 when it became John S. Armstrong arrived in Bros. named the development “Ontario” after 1885 the Frankish Co. The water Ontario. Within a few years of his their hometown of Ontario, Canada. They sold Chaffey Agricultural College of the University fountain, land and commerce 1888 arrival, he started Armstrong of California opened with 12 students and 9 a variety of lots bundled with water rights for office, gravity mule car, and Gravity Mule Car was established along the Nursery which specialized in teachers, Construction began in March, 1883. $150-$250 per acre. Chaffey Bros. sold their lavish homes along the Union Euclid Avenue median. Mules pulled cars Eucalyptus (for wind rows) and The first class graduated in June, 1890. Ontario interests for $275,000 in1886 to Los Pacific Railroad helped to market uphill to San Antonio Heights and rode on Olive trees. It was not for several Angeles real estate brokers and bankers and Ontario to prospective residents the cars downhill to Ontario. decades that his name became headed to Australia to plan more irrigation and investors. synonymous with roses. colonies in 1886. Roll-in Electric camera streetcar first sold – developed The Kodak 1880 1885 1890 1882 San Antonio Water Co. incorporated. 1889 Each land owner owned shares in the Ontario has 2,471 acres in citrus water company and were guaranteed a and is rated the City with the fair share of the available water supply. 1883 Euclid Avenue completed and 8,000 1887 second largest citrus acreage in trees planted along it. The fountain Southern Pacific Railroad the State. The first railcar of shown in the median was rumored to be provides service to Ontario and oranges is shipped from Ontario turned on when trains arrived from Los Santa Fe Railroad provides out of state. Angeles to show that water was service to North Ontario (now available. The fountain was moved to its Upland). Union Pacific Railroad current location in front of the Old City comes to Ontario in 1903. Hall in 1983-84 as a result of the Euclid Avenue underpass project. Model Colony Context Context Citrus Context Gabled roof, usually Typical House steeply pitched Decorative trusses in gables Steeply pitched cross gables Styles Built in usually present Overhanging eaves, usually with Ontario during exposed rafter ends this time period Horizontal and vertical bands (less commonly diagonal) Diagonal or raised from wall surfaces for curving porch emphasis supports Wooden wall cladding (boards or shingles) Queen Anne Eastlake Shingle Stick 1890s 1893 Several Ontario fruit exchanges were organized. These exchanges helped to create more uniform methods of marketing In addition to oranges, lemons grapes, and distributing profits to local growers on 1895 and olives, peaches, apricots, plums, a prorata basis, making citrus more The Ontario Electric Company apples, cherries, and walnuts were also financially viable. The first train load of was incorporated and began 1896 successfully grown in Ontario. 1891 oranges left Ontario and arrived on the providing electricity to the gravity Over five Ontario incorporates on December 10, 1891 with East Coast. Much of the fruit was picked car line and an arc lamp was in percent of a population of about 550. The first meeting of by Chinese immigrants who had operation on the grounds of the Ontario’s citrus the 5 man Board of Trustees (now called City immigrated to work on the railroad Ontario Hotel. crop was lost to Council) was held on December 22, 1891. expansion. wind and frost. First public Ellis Island showing of Chicago opens a motion World’s Spanish-American War picture Fair 1890 1895 1897 1900 George Chaffey returns to Ontario from Australia and helps Ontario find needed underground water sources. 1892 1890 1891 The Ontario Packing 1893/1894 First citrus fair held Ontario lemons Company organized and The City took on more civic in Ontario for take all the prizes at began operating in a building responsibilities by 1894 surrounding State Fair. near the Southern Pacific establishing the first fire Graber “Olive House” communities depot. department in 1893 and was founded at its assuming the Library current location on East operations in 1894. Fourth Street. It is one of the oldest businesses in Ontario. Population: 550 Model Colony Context Citrus Context Shingle and Queen Anne – See elevations in earlier decade Victorian Eclectic Mission Revival Colonial & Dutch Craftsman Colonial Revival 1900’s 1903 1906 E.H. Richardson 1910 In 1906 the Chaffey invents Hotpoint Iron, Chaffey College reopens, after endowment was legally first electric iron closing in 1901 due to meager separated from the University heated to the point. financial resources, as a Junior 1900 of Southern California and the The Hotpoint Iron was College with 100 students. The Fallis House was built in 1900. It recently reorganized Chaffey the first commonly College shared the campus with became the City’s first local Union High School District available electrical Chaffey High School for five landmark in 1993. The house is a became the beneficiary of the appliance in the decades. In 1916, the college unique combination of Second College Trust. Empire and Queen Anne style of American home. became a publicly funded institution. architecture. Pres. McKinley First San Ford assassinated airplane Francisco Model T & Queen flight by earthquake available to Victoria Wright kills 503 the public dies Bros. 1900 1905 1906 1910 1904 North Ontario incorporated After Congress under the name Upland. In ratified Ontario as a 1888, 1895 and again in Model Colony in 1902, North Ontario fought 1903, a model was annexation by the City of displayed at the St. Ontario. Louis Worlds Fair. 1902 1900 Ontario Power Co. produced far Secundo Guasti arrived in Ontario and more electricity than they could purchased 6,000 acres (including the sell. As a result, E.H. Richardson Late 1890s/Early 1900s town of Zucker – except the depot) and begins developing appliances to increase demand for power The first dairies come to Chino Valley. The introduced dry farming to the region. cows were pasture fed and were milked in the corral, not a barn. The dry-lot farming found in the dairy industry today was not brought to Southern California until the 1920’s by Dutch and Portuguese immigrants. Population: 772 Model Colony Context Citrus Context New Model Colony (Dairy) Context – Phase 1 Shingle, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Victorian Eclectic, Mission Revival, Mediterranean Revival, French Eclectic Revival, Bungalow, Tudor Revival and Craftsman – See elevations in earlier and the following decades American Pueblo Revival Neoclassical Prairie Foursquare Revival 1910s 1912 1918 Victory Day Parade Charles Frankish bought Hotpoint merges with General Electric and out the other interests to becomes the Edison Electric Appliance Company own Ontario Land and 1916 Improvement Co. after Frankish Building was built in 1916 in the 1918 having managed it since Italianate architectural style. It was the The first California man to be killed during 1886. He changed the City’s first National Register of Historic WW1 was Ralph T. Kingery, an Ontario name to Frankish Co. Places in 1980. resident. First trans- Titanic Panama First trans- continental sinks in Canal continental airplane U.S. Involved in World War I North opens telephone flight Atlantic call 1910 1915 1916 1918 1919 1920 In 1916 the Chaffey Junior The Spanish Flu spread College of Agriculture was Ontario’s first temporary across America killing ½ airport, Bryant Field is added as a postgraduate million people in the U.S. department to the high school. constructed at the The Ontario City Council intersection of Campus Property was acquired in Alta adopted emergency Loma and a long-anticipated and State Street to measures by closing accommodate a new college opened its doors in schools, churches, the spring of 1960 Welcome Home theaters, etc. Chaffey Celebration for High School was closed servicemen returning First transcontinental for 10 weeks. telephone call from the Great War. 1913 A devastating frost kills 75 – 90% of Ontario’s orange and lemon crops. In the 1920’s, smudge pots were used to reduce the citrus loss by raising the air temperature in groves but resulted in significant air pollution. Population: 4,274 Model Colony Context Citrus Context New Model Colony (Dairy) Context – Phase 1 Shingle, Spanish Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial Revival, Neoclassical Revival, Victorian Eclectic, Mission Revival, Pueblo Revival, Prairie, and Craftsman – See elevations in earlier or the following decades Mediterranean French Eclectic Bungalow Tudor Revival Revival 1920s As automobiles became the preferred method of travel, enterprises that catered to the traveling public such as restaurants, motels, and service stations sprang up 1920 along A Street (now Holt Blvd.). Fords and Orange Blossom Inn were popular Prohibition took effect which prohibited the 1923 1926 stops along this route.