General Plan for Beverly Hills of California, Beverly Hills, 1929

Item Overview

Title

General Plan for Beverly Hills of California, Beverly Hills, 1929

Alternative title

General Plan for Beverly Hills

Illustrator

Huntington, S. H.

Date Created

March 20, 1929

Date

1929-03-20

Language

English

Collection

Ralph D. Cornell Papers, 1925-1972

Notes

Caption

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.
Signed: S. H. Huntington - DEL.
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.
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]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic print

Dimensions

8 x 10 inches

Keywords

Genre

black-and-white photographs
landscaping plans

Names

Rodeo Land and Water Company

Location

California--Beverly Hills

Longitude

34.0736204

Latitude

-118.4003563

Resource type

still image

Subjects

railroad stations
Business
Transportation
parkways
railroads
land use
urban planning
Government
neighborhoods
civic centers

landscape architecture