1899 (1898) (1900) (1890-1900) (1900-1910) Table of Contents
Anon. Ocean Park and Venice Timeline (1890-1909), Web Document, 2005b, 1899 See Text
Santa Monica Planning Division Santa Monica Landmarks Tour, 2003. See Text
Amanda Schacter (ed.) Santa Monica Landmarks Santa Monica Landmarks Commission, 1990. See Text
The James D. Schuyler* Papers, SCHU, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 1961, 1899 See Text
Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176 pp., 1899 See Text
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1899 See Text
Notes:
Documents:
Ingersoll's Century History Santa Monica Bay Cities (Being Book Number Two of Ingersoll's Century Series of California Local History Annals), 1908, 1908a, 1899
[p. 163] Chapter II Laying the Foundations. 1870-1880.
. . . In 1899 he [E.J. Vawter] began the development of what has proved to be one of the most important Santa Monica industries-that is the growing of carnations and other flowers for the market. A large tract of land is now under cultivation and the business is steadily increasing in value.
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[p. 253] Chapter VI South Santa Monica and Ocean Park
. . . in August, 1899, the church was organized as the South Santa Monica M.E. church; the old Methodist chapel was donated to them by the North Side church and removed to its present location on Lake street.
1899.
The untimely death of Francis G. Ryan, of the firm of Kinney & Ryan, who had practically created Ocean Park, led to a change and in 1899 T.H. Dudley married Mrs. Ryan and became interested with Mr. Kinney in the development of the now promising beach resort. Aggressive advances were made in the spring of this year. The Outlook of March 10th says: "All told there are now 200 cottages on this property, a great many of which were erected last year. There are now some ten or twelve in process of erection and contracts for new ones are being made every week. These cottages are not mere shacks, but will be neat and commodious, costing all the way from $350 to $1000. They are being put up by first-class tenants, mostly professional and business men from Los Angeles. Water is supplied from the city water works and electric lights are being put into the more pretentious structures. Beach lots are rented at about $15 per year to those who will put up neat and substantial cottages. No land is sold outright, but long leases are given."
Messrs. Kinney and Dudley purchased the old Y.M.C.A, bath house this year, moved it a block south and refitted it. In July, Pier avenue was opened. Kinney and Dudley giving a deed to the necessary land to the city. The first building put up was a bowling alley, situated near the beach and carried on by Mr. J.G. Holborow. July 28th the post office of "Oceanpark" was opened for business. This office had been secured after a long and hard contest by Mr. Kinney, it being the only instance of two separate post offices [p.254] established within a single municipality. Mr. L.B. Osborne was the first postmaster and the office was located in his grocery store on Second Street.
This year Mr. E.J. Vawter began the development of the carnation beds which have become one of Santa Monica's best-known industries. He devoted fifteen acres of land on South Fourth street to the culture of flowers, mostly carnations and roses. A 5,000-gallon tank stored water for irrigation of the tract. The soil and conditions proved to be favorable for the production of the finest varieties and the venture proved most successful. Large green houses and increased acreage are now devoted to the propagation of flowers which are marketed in Los Angeles and shipped to distant points. Many street improvements were made during this year and Kinney and Dudley planted out nearly twenty acres to trees, using 10,000 eucalyptus trees alone, in the vicinity of the race track.
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[p. 269] Chapter VII. Public Institutions:
[p. 269] Schools
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[p. 269] School Trustees of Santa Monica
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[p. 283] PostOffice
. . . In 1899 the Ocean Park postoffice was established, with L.B. Osborne as postmaster, this office being in Santa Monica also.
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[p. 288] Chapter VIII Churches and Societies: Methodist Church; Catholic Church
In August, 1899, a [Methodist] church was organized, then known as South Santa Monica M.E. church, wtih Rev. F.G.H. Stevens as pastor, the mission having been served by Rev. Robert Fisher. In December, the old church was donated to the new organization and was moved to Ocean Park. A new parsonage was erected on the site of the old parsonage.
Rev. C.T. Wilson and Rev. T.H. Woodward served as pastors . . .
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[p. 293] Catholic Church
[p. 293] In 1899, July 16th, a small band of Sisters of the Holy Name, came to Santa Monica to establish an academy. They rented a private house on Fourth street, and September 4th, opened their school with nineteen pupils. The year closed with fifty-two children under the charge of the Sisters.
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[p. 298] Chapter VIII Baptist Church
" . . . [p. 298] The Methodists were granted the use of the building [the Baptist Church in Ocean Park] for their services until 1900 when they secured their own church.
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"A simplified variation of a Gothic Revival style, the building was the first church erected in Santa Monica. The site was donated by the Santa Monica Land Company of City founder John P. Jones. Located originally at Sixth and Arizona, the church was moved to Hill and Lake Streets in 1899 and occupied by the Ocean Park Methodist- Episcopal Church. Lake Street became Washington Boulevard, and is now Second Street.
"In 1923, the old church was sold to the Stephen Jackson Women's Relief Corps, No. 124 and was renamed "Patriotic Hall." In 1971, it became a private residence." p.20
"Known as a "shotgun house", this structure is one room wide, one story tall, and several rooms deep. The shotgun house is a vernacular American building type that resulted from a synthesis of sources from the Caribbean region, Europe, and Africa. Its form was adaptable to a variety of circumstances under which temporary or inexpensive housing was required.
"This house may have been constructed initially as a beach cottage, or may have housed workers associated with the nearby rail or oil industries. It is now in storage awaiting a relocation site." p. 21
Amanda Schacter (Ed.) Santa Monica Landmarks Santa Monica Landmarks Commission, 1990.
"This building, a simplified variation of a Gothic Revival style, was the first church building erected in Santa Monica. The site was donated by the Santa Monica Land Company, the development company of Santa Monica founder John P. Jones. Located originally at Sixth and Arizona, in 1883 it was moved two blocks west to the southwest corner of Fourth and Arizona. At that time a bell tower was added. In 1899, the church was moved to Hill and Lake Streets and occupied by the Ocean Park Methodist - Episcopal Church. Lake Street became Washington Boulevard, and is now Second Street. In 1923, the old church was sold to the Stephen Jackson Women's Relief Corps, No. 124 and was called Patriotic Hall. In 1971, it became a private residence."
The James D. Schuyler* Papers, SCHU, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 1961, 1899
Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176pp., 1899
[Photo page 44: The Santa Monica Cycle Path, proceeding west from Third Avenue and Washington Street in the late 1890s.]
"By the end of the century there were 30,000 cycles in Los Angeles, creating a need for more adequate paths and roads. The LAAC Wheelmen and other organizations helped finance the Santa Monica Cycleway in 1899 by selling lapel buttons . . ."
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1899
"Work on San Pedro Harbor began in 1899; Huntington died a year later, and E.H. Harriman, who assumed control, became president of the Southern Pacific in 1902. Six years later, as business declined and expenses rose, Harriman permitted the Santa Monica rail line to be leased to the Los Angeles Pacific, an electric railway system owned by the Southern Pacific. . . . the Balloon Route Excursion Trolley Trips . . . " p. 33
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" There was a Japanese fishing village from 1899 until 1920 near the Long Wharf . . ."