The Frederick Hastings Rindge House is a

historic house A historic house generally meets several criteria before being listed by an official body as "historic." Generally the building is at least a certain age, depending on the rules for the individual list. A second factor is that the building be in ...

located in the

West Adams West Adams is a historic neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California. The area is known for its large number of historic buildings, structures and notable houses and mansions throughout Los Angeles. It is a youth ...

district of

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, in

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. The Rindge House was built in 1904 for

Frederick H. Rindge Frederick Hastings Rindge (1857–1905) was an American business magnate, patriarch of the illustrious and prominent Rindge family, real estate developer, philanthropist, and writer, of Los Angeles, California. He was a major benefactor to his ...

and wife

Rhoda May Knight Rindge Rhoda May Knight Rindge, (b. 1864, d. 1941), also known as May Rindge or May K., was an American businesswoman. She was known as the Queen of Malibu, California, Malibu as well as the Founding Mother of Malibu and L.A.'s first high-profile female e ...

and designed by Frederick Louis Roehrig and E.C. Shipley in a Renaissance Revival-

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Victorian style. In 1986, the Rindge House was listed on the

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based on architectural criteria.

Rindge Ranch

In 1892 Frederick H. Rindge purchased the Spanish land grant

Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a Spanish land grant in the Santa Monica Mountains and adjacent coast, within present day Los Angeles County, California. It was given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé T ...

or "Malibu Rancho".The Rindge Family, City of Malibu History
/ref> He later expanded it to ) as the Rindge Ranch, which encompasses present day

Malibu, California Malibu ( ; es, Malibú; Chumash: ) is a beach city in the Santa Monica Mountains region of Los Angeles County, California, situated about west of Downtown Los Angeles. It is known for its Mediterranean climate and its strip of the Malibu ...

, 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.

Rindge Ranch

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