![]() It would last until 2015, when it was torn down. ![]() In addition to these two homes, another home – Ingle Go Jang was built two doors down on Ocean in 1910. Happy House (2920 Ocean Blvd) survived until 2003 while Quarterdeck (2928 Ocean Blvd) lasted for almost 110 years before being torn down in 2017 to be replaced by a house that is presently listed for $25 million. Mary named her house Happy House while Alice’s was Quarterdeck. The first houses would be built in CdM in 1910, Mary Everett from Pasadena and her friend Alice Alden purchased lots 1, 2, & 3 of Block 35, which is at the corner of Iris and Ocean, and split them with each having 1 ½ lots. was the architect and builder of the hotel. Hall, the operating manager of Hart & Co. The hotel opened in July 1907 and was described as having three stories and 30 guest rooms, although the third story was actually just a dormer and there were only 18 guest rooms. To improve access, Hart decided to build a road that went from the Back Bay, down Bayside and up to the Hotel Del Mar. In 1906, Hart returned 360 acres back to the Irvine Company leaving his stake at 347 acres. Access and water service were among the issues. Property sales were slow, after selling a few lots in 1904, no sales were made in 1905 or 1906 and no houses or buildings had been built. It stood until 1912 when a storm took down the remaining structure. Another storm did further damage the next year. Construction of an oceanfront pleasure pier began in July 1905 at Big Corona but a storm damaged it before it was finished. East-West Streets were numbered from 50th Place (Bayview) to 57th (5th Avenue) with a few streets being lettered. An extension of the street numbers on Balboa Island, they went from 27th (Avocado) to 43rd (Poppy) as Hazel was added later. The first subdivision of the land was filed on September 4, 1904, representing the official start of Corona del Mar.ĭevelopment got underway as Electric Way (now Bayside), Pier Avenue (Marguerite), and Ocean Blvd were graded and oiled and the rest of the North-South streets were numbered. The lay out of the Village was pretty similar to how it is today with 2,300 parcels of land made up of 30 x 120 foot lots. Forgy of Santa Ana were chosen as real estate agents and the land was surveyed by Colonel S.H. Prices started at $100 per lot with Beach lots selling for up to $750. In July 1904, Hart took out an ad in Santa Ana’s Daily Evening Blade offering lots for sale and promising a 600 foot ocean pier, 300 foot pier into the Bay, running water, and an 80 foot boulevard on Ocean and Bay Streets. Hart named the development Corona del Mar, meaning Crown of the Sea. The land included everything from Jamboree to Hazel and from East Coast Highway & 5th to the Ocean. Hart ended up paying $150 an acre, giving Irvine $10K in the first 10 days after the sale, and then three annual payments of $32K each in 1905, 1906, and 1907. As the Pacific was laying track south through the beach towns, Hart approached Irvine about selling him land. He had partnered with Henry Huntington, whose uncle had owned the Southern Pacific before passing away, and used some of the Huntington fortune to purchase the Pacific Electric Railway in LA. He had made money building and running saw mills before eventually getting into real estate and moving to Los Angeles in 1900. Hart 700 acres of what is now Corona del Mar.īorn in 1859 in New Hampshire, Hart envisioned a chain of beach towns from Newport to San Juan Capistrano to attract tourists and residents. Seeing the coastal property as having little value and in need of cash, in 1904 Irvine agreed to sell George E. At the turn of the century, the Irvine Ranch was primarily a farm and the region had suffered through several years of drought conditions, receiving less than half the rain it had been getting a decade earlier. When James passed away in 1886, the Irvine Ranch went into a trust for James II to receive on his 25th birthday in 1893. The land that is today Corona del Mar was originally a part of Spanish land grants and eventually ended up being sold to James Irvine as part of 108,000 acres he bought in 1875 for $150,000.
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