Frederick Hastings Rindge House

Built in 1904, The Frederick Hastings Rindge House is a historic house located in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. In 1986, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Frederick Hastings Rindge House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 95
Frederick Hastings Rindge House, 2008
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Location	2263 Harvard Blvd., West Adams, Los Angeles
Coordinates	34°2′4″N 118°18′25″W
Built	1902
Architect	Frederick Louis Roehrig; E. C. Shipley
Architectural style	Romanesque Revival-Renaissance Revival-Victorian
NRHP reference No.	86000105[1]
LAHCM No.	95
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 23, 1986
Designated LAHCM	February 23, 1972

History

The House in 1910

The Rindge House was built in 1904 for Frederick H. Rindge and wife Rhoda May Knight Rindge and designed by Frederick Roehrig and E.C. Shipley in a Renaissance Revival-Romanesque Revival Victorian style. 1986, the Rindge House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places based on architectural criteria.

Rindge Ranch

In 1892 Frederick H. Rindge purchased the 13,300-acre (5,400 ha) Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit or "Malibu Rancho".^[2] He later expanded it to 17,000 acres (6,900 ha)) as the Rindge Ranch, which encompasses present day Malibu, California, and Rhoda May ran it, its oil derrick, and railroad after Frederick's death, also founding the Rindge Dam, Malibu Potteries, and what became Serra Retreat.

See also

• Adamson House
• Rindge Dam
• Malibu Potteries
• Rindge Co. v. County of Los Angeles 262 U.S. 700 (1923)
• List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles
• List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
• Hueneme, Malibu and Port Los Angeles Railway (The railroad that the Rindges built through Malibu)

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. The Rindge Family, City of Malibu History

Further reading

• Abeel, Daphne (November 1998). "Frederick Hastings Rindge: Brief life of a model citizen: 1857-1905". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved March 12, 2009. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
• Randall, David K. (2016). The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise (1st ed.). New York, New York: W.W. Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0-393-24099-3.