Giclée Limited Edition print from mixed media watercolor
36" x 44"
$1,400 unframed - $1,800 framed
Palos Verdes Project
Centennial Celebration
On a fine day in June 1923, 300 Model T Fords gathered at the entrance to Rancho de Los Palos Verdes and headed up the road to the real estate sales office, La Venta (meaning "sale" in Spanish), launching the first real estate road tour for potential investors in the Palos Verdes Project.
When I saw that dusty looking old photograph in the library archives (click below), it became my passion to create a large scale anniversary fine art print to commemorate and celebrate the history, places and landmarks of our now beautiful community for its birthday - a piece of exquisitely crafted fine art to mark the past and inform our future.
New York financier Frank Vanderlip, Sr., along with other investors, purchased 16,000 acres on the peninsula which would become the communities of Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, City of Rolling Hills, Miraleste, and Valmonte.
Vanderlip hired Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to create a Master Plan for this grand project. Considered the father of modern landscape architecture, Olmsted envisioned communities with livable open space, green corridors, and parklands.
Palos Verdes Estates is considered the "Crowning Jewel" of Olmsted's accomplishments, and his legacy is ever more meaningful today - stewardship of our open spaces coupled with intelligent community planning for the future.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr overlooking plans for the Palos Verdes Project.
Enjoy a piece of Palos Verdes history at home, office or Boardroom!
Click to view Palos Verdes
as it appeared to potential investors as they began the
1923 Real Estate Rally.
The original site map for the Palos Verdes Project, the Grand Plan, with Lunada Bay as the commercial center prior to the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
- Please visit the Palos Verdes Library District for more insightful information about the history of the Palos Verdes Peninsula - www.pvld.org/localhistory