The Street Seen: Santa Monica Tract

Hill to Marine between Main and 2nd

Santa Monica Tract (1895)

Kinney & Ryan’s 1893 Santa Monica Tract is a subdivision of the failed Ocean Park Ostrich Farm property.

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To establish the Ocean Park Ostrich Farm (and increase the value of his other Ocean Park properties), in 1891, W.D. Vawter sells for $3,800 Blocks G, H, and I (13 acres) of the 1884 Vawters Sub Lucas Tract to H.B. Perry.

Blocks G, H & I of Vawters Sub Lucas Tract

In 1892, with the failure of the Ostrich Farm, H.B. Perry sells the Ostrich Farm property for $5,000 to Francis G. Ryan, who quickly subdivides the property into Blocks A, B, C, and D of the Kinney & Ryan’s 1893 Santa Monica Tract.¹

Kinney & Ryan’s Santa Monica Tract (1893)

Kinney & Ryan subdivide their "Santa Monica Tract" into 25 x 100 foot lots featuring piped water and priced at $100 - $25 down and $10 / month. The 178 lots @ $100 ea = $17,800

The Outlook, April 08, 1893

1. Main Street has its origins as Lucas Ave in 1887; and is renamed So. 2nd St in 1895, and then Main St in 1905. From 1886 to 1917, 2nd St is named Lake St, and then from 1917 to 1970 is named Washington Blvd. Ash is named Ashland in in 1904.