In the early 1930s, Santa Monica Park was renamed Beverly Gardens and was extended to span the entire two-mile (3-kilometer) length of Santa Monica Boulevard through the city. The house is now owned by the city of Beverly Hills and is a designated historical landmark. Doheny finished construction of Greystone Mansion, a 55-room mansion meant as a wedding present for his son Edward L. In 1928, the Beverly Wilshire Apartment Hotel (now the Beverly Wilshire Hotel) opened on Wilshire Boulevard between El Camino and Rodeo drives, part of the old Beverly Hills Speedway.
The Beverly Hills Utility Commission, opposed to annexation as well, managed to force the city into a special election and the plan was defeated 337 to 507. : 65 There was considerable opposition to annexation among such famous residents as Pickford, Fairbanks, Will Rogers and Rudolph Valentino.
In 1923 the usual solution, annexation to the city of Los Angeles, was proposed. īy the early 1920s, the population of Beverly Hills had grown enough to make the water supply a political issue.
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The glamour associated with Fairbanks and Pickford as well as other movie stars who built mansions in the city contributed to its growing appeal. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921. The Beverly Hills Utility Commission was split off from the land company and incorporated in September 1914, buying all of the utilities-related assets from the Rodeo Land and Water Company. That same year, the Rodeo Land and Water Company decided to separate its water business from its real estate business. The visitors drawn by the hotel were inclined to purchase land in Beverly Hills, and by 1914 the population had grown enough to qualify for incorporation as an independent city. īurton Green began construction on The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1911. : 57 It was also forbidden to sell or rent property to Jews in Beverly Hills. Restrictive covenants prohibited non-whites from owning or renting property unless they were employed as servants by white residents. īeverly Hills was one of many all-white planned communities started in the Los Angeles area around this time. The first house in the subdivision was built in 1907, but sales remained slow. The property has been laid out on beautiful curved lines. No expense is being spared to make this a fine suburban district. . . Clark Company are managing the development of the foothill portion of the Hammel & Denker ranch for the Rodeo Land and Water Company (the Canfield-Huntington-Kerckhoff syndicate), to be known as Beverly Hills. The Los Angeles Times reported on September 2, 1906: The development was named "Beverly Hills" after Beverly Farms in Beverly, Massachusetts (which itself is named after Beverley from beaver-lake, in East Yorkshire, England) and because of the hills in the area. In 1906, therefore, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company, renamed the property "Beverly Hills," subdivided it, and began selling lots. They did not find enough to exploit commercially by the standards of the time, though. Balch formed the Amalgamated Oil Company, bought the Hammel and Denker ranch, and began looking for oil. Īctor Will Rogers with a 1934 model of the City Hall development proposal
By the 1880s, the ranch had been subdivided into parcels of 75 acres (0.30 km 2) and was being rapidly bought up by Anglos from Los Angeles and the East coast. In 1854, she sold the ranch to Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811–1878) and Henry Hancock (1822–1883). They called their 4,500 acres (18 km 2) of property the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas. The area was settled by Maria Rita Quinteros de Valdez and her husband in 1828. Gaspar de Portolá arrived in the area that would later become Beverly Hills on August 3, 1769, traveling along native trails which followed the present-day route of Wilshire Boulevard. 5.2 County, state and federal representation.