A lovely walk through Glendale’s Brand Park

A walk through Brand Park in Glendale starts at Grandview Avenue and West Mountain Street. Park on the street and walk past the big white gates marked with the word “Miradero.”

A walk through Brand Park in Glendale continues past the Brand Library.

A walk through Brand Park in Glendale continues past a statue honoring the American Green Cross, a 1920s memorial dedicated to preserving woods and walkers.

A walk through Brand Park continues past the Whispering Pine Teahouse, a painstakingly accurate reproduction of a classic Japanese tea ceremony house and garden.

The Whispering Pine Teahouse, a painstakingly accurate reproduction of a classic Japanese tea ceremony house and garden.

Inside the Whispering Pine Teahouse in Brand Park.

“The Doctor’s House,” a Victorian-era residence in Glendale’s Brand Park dating from 1888.

A walk through Brand Park in Glendale continues toward a locked green gate guarding a pyramid-shaped memorial to the Brand family containing the remains of Leslie C. Brand, the man who built the city of Glendale into an empire, along with his widow Mary Louise Brand, Nathaniel Dryden, the architect who built Glendale to Brand’s specifications, and Claire Anne Dodd, a film actress who was married to a Brand great-nephew. Also interred here are multiple family pets, historians have said.