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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Beverly Hills, a residential subdivision of 3200 acres lying north of Santa Monica Boulevard and one of the first curvilinear subdivisions planned for Southern California, comprised a large hotel site, water garden, parks, boulevards, and approximately 12,000 home sitesThe design of subdivision anticipated the more general use of the automobile as evidenced by blocks of unusual length, the generous widths of streets and their easy gradients.One unusual feature of this development is a consistent and harmonious street tree planting.Development of this subdivision has been carried forward virtually in accordance with this original design as planned by Mr. Wilbur D. Cook some twenty years ago.Since the year of 1920, the population of Beverly Hills has increased over twenty-five hundred percent. Labels on plan: civic center, parkway, Beverly Sta., Los Angeles Pacific Rail Road Right of Way, [LA Nabes?], Santa Monica Boulevard, Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Drive, Canon Drive, [north arrow transversing shield with initials "WDC" for Wilbur David Cook, "BH" for Beverly Hills, and "CHC" for Cook, Hall & Cornell] General Plan for Beverly Hills of California as originally designed in 1907 by Wilbur David Cook, Landscape Architect, Los Angeles, for the Rodeo Land & Water Company, Percy H. Clark Co. - Manager, Daniel S. Halliday - Civil Engineer; Cook, Hall & Cornell, Landscape Architects & City Planners, 5725 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles; Graphic Scale, Scale 1 Inch = 00 Feet.; March 20, 1929; Plan No. 99-90. Signed: S. H. Huntington - DEL.
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1411_0060 ark:/21198/zz002b5xbp
Language
English
Subject
Railroad stations Business Parkways Railroads Government Neighborhoods Civic centers Landscape architecture Rodeo Land and Water Company
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