Structure Type: built works - dwellings

Designers: Alphonso E. Bell (developer)

Dates: constructed 1922

Bel-Air, Los Angeles, CA

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Oil tycoon, Alphonso E. Bell, began his exclusive sub-division, Bel-Air Estates, in 1922. He had acquired more than 600 acres to the west of Los Angeles, CA, intent on creating a housing sub-division for the wealthy; at the time, Los Angeles was rapidly expanding to the west along Wilshire Boulevard, with the construction of Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Westwood Village, and Santa Monica, CA;

PCAD id: 681