View towards beach house under construction in the Rancho Malibu la Costa development, Malibu, circa 1927

Description

Downward view from slope towards house under construction and the ocean beyond along the Pacific Coast Highway in the Rancho Malibu la Costa development on the Malibu coast., 34.039617, Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a 13,316-acre Spanish land grant given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé Tapia.
In 1892 Frederick Hastings Rindge and May Knight Rindge, purchased the rancho. In 1926, the Marblehead Land Company, formed by May Knight Rindge, made a $6 million deal with Harold G. Ferguson to develop the La Costa area (between Las Flores Canyon and Carbon Canyon), but that deal fell apart when Ferguson was sentenced to jail for securities fraud in 1931. Ferguson laid out the development with street names as they remain today: Rambla Vista, Paseo Serra, etc. It took until the mid 1930's for development of the area to begin in earnest., -118.644511, Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.