Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
BREN NTWOOO PARK
BEAUTY ADDITION
$50 ACRES OF SPLENDID MESA
LAND
Tract Extending to Santa Monica
Canyon on Extension of the New
"Short Line" Electric
Railway

Southern CALIFORNIA; beautiful resi-
dence subdivisions are today a subject
of national comment, but the crown of
her achievement In this direction will
| be Brentwood Park, which when COM
| pieted will be the handsomest resi-
dence subdivision west of Chicago.
! Brentwood Park comprises $50 acres
of magnificent mesa land, extending
! from the broad, gracefully winding
San Vicente road to the scenic Santa
Monica canyon. The extension of the
San Vicente road and the completion
| Of the new short line will bring Brent
wood within twenty minutes of Los
Angeles by automobile and twenty-five
minutes by electric car.
! Skilled landscape architects and ca
pable engineers have been commits
stoned to create a wealth of floral, ar
Dor and artistic park attractions in
this favored spot. The details will be
worked out at the park by John De
| Wolf the landscape architect, who de-
signed and built 3O1 parks in Greater
| New York. over half a million dol
lars will be expended in Transforming
| Brentwood Park into the most artistic
residential spot in Western America.
Brentwood will include many fea-
lures peculiar alone to the famous
Golden Gate park of San Francisco.
a grand boulevard will extend through
the subdivision, ranging in width from
l3O to 1SO feet 1t will be one of the
most artistic thoroughfares in the
United States and will include a Co.
foot roadway, the balance divided into
spacious promenades and shrub be-
decked parkings. All avenues will be
laid out following the gentle contour
of the land They will range in width
from rs to 1855 feet. Graceful curves
and undulations instead of sharp
angles and fiat surfaces will prevail
All streets throughout the park will
be graded. oiled and surfaced with
gravel. Circular parkings will be es-
tablished at the intersections of all
streets and oval parkings will be
placed down the center of all park
thoroughfares. Everything that savors
of formal city street effect will be
avoided, Brentwood will be a park in
reality as well as in name Cement
curbs and walks will be conspicuously
absent. The sidewalk space of 10 to 70
feet will be rolled and graveled. The
borders along the walks will be sloped
to the edge of the roads and planted
with grass or running vines
No lot in the park has a frontage of
less than 100 feet and the depth of lots
ranges from ia to 45O feet. The build
ing restrictions on all residences 'front.'
ing Santa Monica canyon are $4,000
Here buildings will set back 100 feet
Restrictions on other avenues and
streets vary from $S5OO to $7500-houses
to be set back from so to IS feet. More
than 100000 trees and shrubs will be
planted on Brentwood Park avenues
and parklets. A wide variety of trees
will be used, including peppers, palms.
magnolias, live oaks, Monterey cypress
San Diego pine and blackwood acacia.
Rare plants, shrubs and vines inn
ported from a dozen foreign countries
as well as all the faVorite American
species of decorative plants, will be
used to adorn Brentwood Park. A
pretty feature will be an artificial
lake, $50 feet in diameter, located in
the center of the park. Rustic bridges,
vines, shrubbery, marine plants, Jap
anese tea garden effects and other
ideas will characterize this diminutive
lake.
Probably no section of land on either
coast enjoys such a diversity of resi-
dental advantages as Brentwood Park.
Cne hundred miles of snow capped
mountains are visible from every point.
The entire park commands an inspir-
ing view of the great valley and the
big blue Pacific. The scenic Santa
Monica canyon with its wild beauty,
a place redolent with romance and his
toric interest, oorders the park for a
distance of one and one-haIf miles. |
III lNiibNIpl ~ IL II not Il lantaSX-
not mere probability. The work will
be rapidly prosecuted until completed
even to the mlnutest details.
The Western Pacific Development
company, owners, guarantee to ali pur-
chasers of land in Brentwood Park
that the plan of development as out |
lined above will be carried out to the |
last letter. No vague promises are
being made. An amplitude of capital |
insures the execution of every detail. |
From residential standpoint Brent |
wood will be unique. 1t possesses prac-
tlcaily every element sought for by |
fastidious homeseekers. A visit TO the |
park today VIII convince you of the |
great intrinsic value of the property. |
A home here will mean the realization |
of your residential ideal.
Barlow & Bragdon, are agents for
man building.