page_title: Calabasas, California
section_title: Claretville of Calabasas / King Gillette Ranch
hierarchical_section_title: Calabasas, California / Arts and culture / Tourism / Claretville of Calabasas / King Gillette Ranch
caption_attribution_description: King Gillette Ranch, main residence courtyard, designed by Wallace Neff in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style in the 1920s. Now in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Santa Monica Mountains, Calabasas, California.
context_page_description: Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County, California, in the hills west of the San Fernando Valley and in the northwest Santa Monica Mountains. The Leonis Adobe, an adobe structure in Old Town Calabasas, dates from 1844 and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in greater Los Angeles. The city was incorporated in 1991. As of the 2010 census, the city's population was 23,058, up from 20,033 at the 2000 census.
context_section_description: The Claretians (The Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, or The Claretian Order) of the Roman Catholic Church had come to Southern California by way of Mexico in the early 1900s, working in Los Angeles inner-city missions.  From 1952 to 1977, they operated the Theological Seminary of Claretville and the Immaculate Heart Claretian Novitiate on the former Gillette Estate, which they renamed Claretville. Thomas Aquinas College rented the Claretville campus from the Claretians from 1971 to 1978. When the Claretians sold their Claretville property in 1978 to Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant, Thomas Aquinas College began construction on a permanent campus in Santa Paula, California. The Gillette Estate/Claretville property is known as the King Gillette Ranch and is part of Malibu Creek State Park. The land and historic structures by architect Wallace Neff are at the intersection of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road in unincorporated Calabasas.
caption: King Gillette Ranch, main residence courtyard, designed by Wallace Neff in the Spanish Colonial Revival architecture style in the 1920s
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