Beverly Gardens Park is a public park in Beverly Hills, California .
56-473: The land is built on a portion of Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas . It was opened in 1911. Beverly Gardens Park is 22 block long and stretches along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills , California for 1.9 miles (3.1 km). It was designed by landscape architect Ralph D. Cornell . The park serves to provide a lengthy green swath between the northern residential area and the commercial sections of
112-631: A cemetery and chapel on his grounds, and acquire real estate. One such acquisition came in 1850 when Workman, who had loaned money to grantee Casilda Soto de Lobo, foreclosed on the Rancho La Merced . He gave the property to his ranch foreman, Juan Matias Sanchez, and his daughter, Margarita, and her husband, P. F. Temple , Francisco P. Temple - F.P.T . Subsequently, with his son-in-law F.P. Temple and Juan Sanchez, Workman acquired neighboring ranchos, including Rancho Potrero Grande , Rancho Potrero de Felipe Lugo , and Rancho Potrero Chico, in
168-486: A brief sojourn in the northern gold fields . This was followed by F.P.Temple's return to Los Angeles, around which time William Workman granted them half of the 2,363-acre (9.56 km ) Rancho La Merced in the Whittier Narrows near today's South El Monte, California . The Temples built a single-story adobe house, said to have measured 70 x 110 feet (34 m), and which later had a second floor of wood and
224-546: A church marriage at the nearby Mission San Gabriel Arcángel . The couple had two surviving children, Antonia Margarita (1830–1892) and Joseph Manuel Workman (ca. 1833–1901.) While a success as a merchant and distiller , Workman was embroiled in the difficult local politics of the period in Nuevo México. He and his partner John A. Rowland were forced to swear loyalty to rebels in the Taos Revolt , who assassinated
280-992: A clerk in his brother Jonathan's store and, when the first small discovery of gold in California was made in Placerita Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains north of Los Angeles in Spring 1842, he shipped gold dust to a brother in Reading who then sent it on to the national Philadelphia Mint . Perhaps it was at the Temple Store that Pliny met Margarita Workman. The Antonia and Pliny Temple family lived in Los Angeles until 1849, while Pliny worked in Jonathan's store, and then left his employ for
336-485: A glass plaque (still in family hands) that dated his landfall as November 5, 1841, a British national holiday called Guy Fawkes' Day . Early in 1842, John A. Rowland obtained a Mexican land grant to Rancho La Puente , at that time 18,000 acres (73 km ), from Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado . The Rancho was in the San Gabriel Valley about twenty miles (32 km) from Los Angeles. William Workman
392-545: A letter of recommendation from New Mexico's American consul and a list of expedition members to the authorities in Los Angeles. The Workman-Rowland Party was long considered the first American wagon train to Los Angeles. But in fact the party could not use wagons because of the difficult Old Spanish Trail route, nor were they solely Americans. Workman commemorated his arrival in Southern California with
448-520: A native of Stockton in January 1870 in San Francisco . José and his wife had seven children. Their daughter Josephine Workman became silent movie actress Mona Darkfeather (January 13, 1883–September 3, 1977), who portrayed American Indian women in films. The historic "Workman House", the original adobe from 1842, with brick additions and a thorough remodel by 1870; "La Casa Nueva,"
504-467: A resurgence of his family in regional affairs through oil, real estate, construction, and philanthropy in the 1920s. In 1903, Walter Temple married Laurenza Gonzalez, a member of an early Californio family, who was born and raised just a stone's throw away from Temple in the Misión Vieja (Old Mission) community in present Whittier Narrows. The two had five children, four living to adulthood, and
560-425: A store, and, in partnership with American John A. Rowland , manufactured liquor. Taos was popular among fur traders who wintered in the town and enjoyed their liquor after months in the back country. William Workman had a common-law marriage with Maria Nicolasa Urioste de Valencia (April 19, 1802–February 4, 1892), ( Pueblo ), for more than a decade. After they migrated to Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1844, they had
616-567: A ten-acre vineyard and fruit trees (apple, fig, peach, pear and pomegranate). His ornamental garden of about 90 square feet at the back of the house was stocked with tropical fruit and flowers. The chapel was being built with brick made on site. Workman provided horses to the US government during the Civil War. Although the cattle industry was buffeted by the decline of the Gold Rush and battered by
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#1732776844691672-494: Is unclear whether they sought the position, and they were soon replaced, they decided to leave for Alta California early in 1841. In September of that year, a group of up to sixty-five or so members, including Americans, Europeans and New Mexicans, left New Mexico and took the Old Spanish Trail to the Los Angeles pueblo . The 1,200-mile (1,900 km) journey was completed by late fall, when John Rowland presented
728-594: The Mexican–American War . A group of Americans, including Benjamin D. Wilson and Rowland, were seized in late summer 1846 at the Rancho Santa Ana del Chino house of Isaac Williams . Workman and neighboring ranchero Ignacio Palomares worked to free the prisoners, who were held at Paredon Blanco (later Boyle Heights.) After the native Californios , in the Siege of Los Angeles , were successful in expelling
784-616: The Panamint Range mines. To finance these projects, the two joined forces with young merchant Isaias W. Hellman and formed the second bank in Los Angeles: Hellman, Temple and Company (1868-71.) When Temple and Hellman split over disagreements, Workman being a silent partner, Hellman formed Farmers and Merchants Bank with ex-Governor and pioneer L.A. banker John G. Downey , while Temple and Workman went on their own. The banking house of Temple and Workman (1871–1876)
840-652: The San Fernando Valley in Cahuenga Pass on 9 January 1845, Workman and two others brought out the flag of truce the following morning at Campo de Cahuenga . Notably, the legislature of Alta California ordered Governor Pío Pico to go to Mexico (based in Mexico City) and request assistance. When Pico returned to Los Angeles in 1848, he spent some time at Workman's residence. When the ex-governor refused to present himself to Jonathan D. Stevenson ,
896-597: The San Gabriel River . During the Civil War, he had experimented successfully with cotton, when the southern states were losing crops and market share. Finding transport to Eastern markets to be too difficult, he abandoned this crop. By 1870, Los Angeles was growing rapidly and Workman joined his ambitious son-in-law, F. P. F.(Francis Pliny Fisk) Temple, in the emerging business arena of the nascent city. The two men invested in real estate subdivisions, notably: Lake Vineyard in today's Alhambra and San Marino in
952-728: The San Rafael Hills ; and Centinela near the Centinela Adobe area in Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela - Rancho Sausal Redondo , in the present day Los Angeles International Airport-LAX area; some of the first oil speculating in the Santa Susana Mountains near present-day Santa Clarita , and others. The two men invested in early railroads too, such as the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad project from Santa Monica to Panamint City and
1008-411: The 1870s. Still, after 1865 he moved quickly to expand and diversify his agricultural production. He had raised wine grapes since the 1840s, and now built three wine-making and storing structures of brick. He had d some 60,000 vines on about 100 acres (0.40 km ) of vineyards . He also had 5,000 acres (20 km ) of wheat on the "Wheatfield Ranch" north of his home, and built a grist mill near
1064-465: The American force left to guard the town after the initial conquest by U.S. forces, another American invasion was being led by Commodore Robert F. Stockton. Workman met Stockton at Mission San Juan Capistrano just after New Year's Day 1847 and arranged an amnesty for all Californios who would resist the American retaking of Los Angeles. When the last battle of the war on California soil was fought in
1120-726: The Gathering Waters), is named for the streams that emptied into the area from out of the canyons of the Santa Monica Mountains above it, the Cañada de las Aguas Frias (Glen of the Cold Waters, now Coldwater Canyon ) and Cañada de los Encinos (Glen of the Green Oaks, now Benedict Canyon ). Maria Rita Valdez was a granddaughter of Luis Quintero , one of the original settlers of Los Angeles . Maria
1176-493: The Mexican Congress, James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's Mill on 24 January 1848. The resulting California Gold Rush brought a huge economic windfall to Workman, whose hide-and- tallow trade activities with his cattle ranching paled compared to the need for fresh beef and other supplies in the gold regions. The wealth generated allowed Workman to expand his ranching enterprises, enlarge his house, build
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#17327768446911232-599: The San Gabriel Mountains above modern Claremont, California and at Rancho San Jacinto y San Gorgonio near today's Idyllwild, California ; and cattle ranch lands, a slaughterhouse and a butcher shop in Springfield, California and Columbia, California in Tuolumne County 's famed gold centers. F.P.Temple was also politically involved, serving as Los Angeles City Treasurer in 1851–52, on
1288-619: The Temples ranched and farmed on their new holdings when their eldest child, Thomas, discovered oil in Spring 1914. After leasing the tract to Standard Oil Company of California, which brought in the first producing well in June 1917, the Temples were the beneficiaries of some two dozen wells drilled over the next several years, including a few major gushers. William Workman's son José Manuel Workman (February 10, 1833–March 13, 1901) married Josephine Belt (December 19, 1851 – July 1, 1937),
1344-459: The US military commander at Los Angeles, Stevenson raged that Workman was complicit in this defiance. He said that Workman was "ever hostile to the American cause." Suspicion by the US military was also cast toward the motives of ranchero and major landowner Hugo Reid , who had settled in California after immigrating from Scotland . Nine days before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified by
1400-649: The United States Hotel at Main and Market Streets in Los Angeles, and became "one vast field of lima beans", supplying the culinary needs of the owners' Hotel. The bean fields survived until 1900 when the land was sold to Burton E. Green of the Amalgamated Oil Company for oil development. After drilling many unproductive wells, they reorganized as the Rodeo Land and Water Company in 1906. I think Mariá Rita Quinteros Valdez de Villa
1456-533: The United States are selected to display work, and up to 50,000 patrons attend throughout the weekend. A permanent collection of Public Art includes the Electric Fountain at the far west end of the linear park, at the intersection of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards. Near Rodeo Drive stands a sculpture of psychedelic tulips by Yayoi Kusama , called Hymn to Life , sculpted and produced in
1512-488: The Virginia City crisis by selling off huge amounts of stock and who was investing in Los Angeles area real estate. Baldwin's demands for the loan were virtually impossible to meet, but Temple and Workman accepted nonetheless. With confidence in the bank irrevocably shaken, depositors quietly drained the institution dry of the borrowed funds and Temple and Workman closed on 13 January 1876. The resulting inventory of
1568-469: The Workmans issued cash bequests upon their three sons, with the eldest, David Workman , using half his money to migrate to America in 1817. David settled in the new town of Franklin, Missouri , the virtual western end of the country, in 1819. There he opened a saddlery, returning to England three years later to retrieve the remainder of his bequest. In the process, David convinced William to join him, and
1624-474: The area generally known as Misión Vieja or Old Mission, around the first site of Mission San Gabriel at Whittier Narrows . Workman later had interests in what are today's Beverly Hills and Glendale . He also had a claim to the Lytle Canyon area near Rancho Cucamonga and Cajon Pass . By 1861 Workman was engaged predominantly in livestock raising, holding 3,000 head of cattle and 600 horses. He had
1680-410: The art department at Ironwood by Mat McKim and Nick Petronzio. Other contemporary public art by sculptors such as Barry Flanagan , Tony Smith and Magdalena Abramovicz are installed on the garden grounds in the vicinity of Beverly Hills City Hall . Historic fountains, historic arbors, and specialty gardens devoted to roses, cacti, succulents, and palms are also visible to drivers and pedestrians along
1736-450: The bank's affairs by the assignees revealed an unmitigated management disaster. Though Temple and Workman were worth several million dollars, most of that wealth was tied to land mortgaged to Baldwin. Workman, bewildered by events he had no hand in shaping, was visited by a court receiver named Richard Garvey, also an associate of Baldwin, on 17 May 1876. That evening, an ailing Workman took his own life at his home on his beloved rancho. He
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1792-702: The battle that ensued was limited to minimal gunfire and no casualties, Workman, his lieutenant John Rowland, Benjamin Davis Wilson , and James McKinley from the Pico side worked out a surrender option with Americans and Europeans on the Micheltorena side. The former Mexican governor was allowed to leave California by ship. Pico assumed the governorship. He relocated the Alta California capital from Monterey to Los Angeles. Together with his plan to move
1848-480: The city. It features a two-mile jogging path, many hundred-year-old cypress and ficus trees, gardens, sculpture, and the big, iconic Beverly Hills Sign, a re-creation of the original arching, lighted historic sign, built near the city's center. The semiannual art fair, The Beverly Hills Art Show, is held on the park's central blocks, during the third weekend of every May and the third weekend of each October. Approximately 250 artists from around Los Angeles and throughout
1904-408: The crash at San Francisco reached Los Angeles by telegraph, a panic broke out. Unable to meet the demand for cash by customers, Temple and Workman suspended business for thirty days and desperately needed an infusion of cash to stay open and stave off bankruptcy. After over three months, the bank finally reopened with a loan from Elias J. "Lucky" Baldwin , a San Francisco capitalist who precipitated
1960-533: The customs house to San Pedro Bay , among other issues, this roused northerner José Castro to mount a challenge to Pico's authority. Workman was appointed to lead the defense of Los Angeles against an incursion by Castro's forces. At the same time he learned that the United States army was ready to invade the department of Alta California for other actions in the Mexican-American War. William Workman played an important role in subsequent events during
2016-659: The departmental Mexican governor in 1837. After a counter-revolt squashed the Taoseño rebellion, Workman and Rowland were arrested for smuggling . A few years later, when the independent Republic of Texas and its president, Mirabeau B. Lamar , sought to extend its boundary to the Rio Grande , thereby annexing the principal towns of New Mexico, Workman and Rowland were named agents of the Texans in New Mexico. Although it
2072-495: The family lived on a 50-acre (200,000 m ) parcel inherited from Walter's mother after her death in 1892. With longtime friend, Milton Kauffman, however, Temple acquired 60 acres (240,000 m ) to the west at the corner of the Montebello Hills that had belonged to his father before the 1876 failure of the bank of Temple and Workman and sold the former Temple Homestead. Living in an 1869 adobe built by Rafael Basye,
2128-495: The first Los Angeles County board of supervisors in 1852-53 and as Los Angeles county treasurer in 1876–77. He was a rare Whig /Republican in a county political world completely dominated by Democrats - specifically, Southern Democrats . By the time Los Angeles experienced its first significant growth after the United States Civil War , F.P.Temple dove headlong into business projects that were intended to ride
2184-486: The first of a series of strokes within months after the closure of the bank. Largely confined to a small portion of his Rancho La Merced, Temple died at age 58 of another stroke, then called apoplexy , though claims by some writers seeking to romanticize the story further than warranted claimed he died in a "rude sheepherder's hut" on a corner of the rancho. The tenth child of F. P.F. Temple and Margarita Workman, Walter P. Temple (June 7, 1869–November 13, 1938) brought
2240-589: The importation of better breeds from Texas, environmental disasters decimated it as a mainstay of the regional economy. The dual disasters of flood in 1861-62 and drought from 1862 to 1865, caused the loss of much stock. Fortunately for Workman, his friend, William Wolfskill , found water and grass in the Mojave Desert , in today's Apple Valley area. He invited Workman and John Rowland to send their herds there. Even after losing 25% of his cattle herd, Workman still maintained an inventory of thousands of head into
2296-585: The north side of Santa Monica Boulevard, from Doheny Drive to Whittier Drive. 34°4′20″N 118°24′12″W / 34.07222°N 118.40333°W / 34.07222; -118.40333 This Los Angeles County, California –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was a 4,539-acre (18.37 km ) land grant in present day Beverly Hills , Los Angeles County, California given to María Rita Quinteros Valdez de Villa in 1838. Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas (Ranch of
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2352-404: The occupation and annexation of California by US forces and migrants following its victory in the Mexican-American War. In early 1845, William Workman was appointed captain of a cadre of Americans and Europeans serving with Governor Pío Pico in his standoff with appointed Governor Manuel Micheltorena at the battle at Cahuenga Pass of the Mexican–American War , northwest of Los Angeles. Although
2408-540: The remarkable life he lived in the Los Angeles area from the 1840s to the 1870s. The first marriage in Los Angeles city history in which both persons had "Anglo" surnames was in September 1845, of William Workman's daughter Antonia Margarita Workman (July 26, 1830–January 24, 1892) to Pliny Fisk Temple (Francisco P. Temple or F.P.T ) - February 13, 1822–April 27, 1880.) The Temples had eleven children, eight living into adulthood. Pliny Fisk Temple-F.P.T
2464-496: The subsequent state of California , United States. William ('Don Julian') Workman (January 15, 1802–May 17, 1876) was born in Temple Sowerby, Westmorland , now Cumbria , England, to Thomas Workman (1763–1843) and Nancy Hook (1771–1830). When William was eleven years old, his father inherited a substantial home and property in nearby Clifton from a childless aunt and uncle and relocated his family there. In 1814,
2520-588: The two brothers sailed from Liverpool and landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in September 1822. William Workman stayed in Franklin for three years, working for his brother, before joining an early caravan on the Santa Fe Trail , which opened in Franklin, Missouri in 1821. He traveled to Santa Fe de Nuevo México - New Spain in the spring of 1825. He settled in Taos where he did some fur trapping, opened
2576-456: The wave of the boom. As discussed above in the section on William Workman, the silent partner in the partnership Temple spearheaded, the wave eventually crashed and ruined the fortunes of the Temple and Workman families by 1876. Temple's personal popularity among his fellow citizens spared him the wrath that might otherwise have been directed to the president of a failed bank, although he suffered
2632-501: Was 76 years old. Workman's death was a shock to a jittery community unnerved by the economic paralysis that plagued the community for the remainder of the decade and well into the next and the population of the city and county dropped for the only time since 1865. As a failed banker, Workman is little known today, though his home at the Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum is open for visitation by those who want to know more about
2688-830: Was accompanied, by the 1870s, by a two-story French Second Empire (architecture) -style brick dwelling. The Temple ranch had vineyards, orchards , a grist mill, and was stocked with cattle, horses and other animals. Temple also was among the first in Los Angeles County to raise thoroughbred horses , starting in the early 1860s. He also was the owner of much property outside the county, including: horse grazing land in Alameda County, California ; thousands of acres in Madera County and Fresno County, California ; lumber mills in San Antonio Canyon in
2744-516: Was born, then relocated to Pueblo de Los Angeles in 1828 and opened the town's first store. He became a prominent citizen. After six months sailing around the horn of South American to Monterey and then traveling south, Pliny arrived at Los Angeles around the first of July 1841. A visit with Jonathan turned into a permanent relocation and Pliny returned home just once, in summer 1870, to enroll two sons at Harvard and M.I.T. in Boston. Pliny worked as
2800-470: Was developed as the city of La Puente . Workman occupied the western portions of the rancho and built an adobe home on the property in 1842. It was expanded by 1856 and significantly remodeled by 1870. The mid 1840s were a tumultuous period because there were two closely timed military actions occurring: the struggle between the Californios and Mexican appointed leaders from outside California, and
2856-615: Was married to Spanish colonial soldier, Vicente Fernando Villa (–1841). With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican–American War , the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Maria Rita Valdez at 4,449 acres (18 km ) in 1871. The rancho
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#17327768446912912-627: Was named for a Congregationalist missionary in Palestine , was born to Jonathan Temple and Lucinda Parker in Reading, Massachusetts , near Boston . After completing his education, he took ship around Cape Horn to California in January 1841, hoping to meet his half-brother, Jonathan Temple , who was twenty-six years older. Jonathan had left for the Sandwich Islands- Hawaiian Islands in the early 1820s before Pliny
2968-581: Was not officially an owner at that time (possibly because he had not yet become a naturalized Mexican citizen), but he received an official document allowing him the privileges of an owner in settling on the rancho . In July 1845, Governor Pío Pico amended the La Puente grant, adding Workman's name officially as owner and expanding the rancho to the maximum allowable under Mexican land law, eleven square leagues, or almost 49,000 (48,790.55) acres, 48,790-acre (197 km ). A portion of Rancho La Puente later
3024-670: Was painted by Ignacio Maria Barreda 18 century 34°04′12″N 118°23′24″W / 34.070°N 118.390°W / 34.070; -118.390 Workman-Temple family The Workman–Temple family relates to the pioneer interconnected Workman and Temple families that were prominent in: the history of colonial Pueblo de Los Angeles and American Los Angeles ; the Los Angeles Basin and San Gabriel Valley regions; and Southern California from 1830 to 1930 in Mexican Alta California and
3080-550: Was popular, but largely for the wrong reasons. Temple's lending policy was liberal and the bank was poorly managed by head cashier Henry S. Ledyard. Further, the bank's investments in a wide range of projects were dangerously depleting cash reserves, especially after the state economy collapsed in a silver mining stock speculation fever at the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada in late August 1875. When news of
3136-445: Was sold in 1854 to Benjamin D. Wilson and Major Henry Hancock . Hancock later sold his share to William Workman . In 1868 Edward Preuss, purchased over 3,600 acres (15 km ) for the development of a city to be known as the "Town of Santa Maria". Lots were platted of about five acres each, but dry weather came and the land reverted to the sheep. The land next passed into the hands of Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker , owners of
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