page_title: Shalawa Meadow, California
section_title: Development
hierarchical_section_title: Shalawa Meadow, California / Development
caption_attribution_description: English: Mrs. Gardiner Green Hammond (Esther Fiske Hammond) John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1903 Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts Oil on canvas 63.5 x 63.83 cm (25 x 25.13 in.) Jpg: webshots
context_page_description: Shalawa Meadow is a 3-acre seaside meadow used in ancient times as a burial site by the Chumash people, adjoining a once large Chumash community about 5 miles east of Santa Barbara, California in the community of Montecito.
context_section_description: A mansion named Bonnymede was built in 1906 on a large estate that included what is now the small remaining Shalawa Meadow. Esther Fiske Hammond, who died in 1955, bought the estate in the early 1900s and through 1950 her family built other structures there. Her son George built an airstrip and ran a business flying supplies to a family on nearby San Miguel Island.
  In 1958 most of the estate was sold to developers, and a condo complex was built in the 1960s named for the Bonnymede mansion that was destroyed in a fire. Complex and contentious negotiations followed until 1989, when 20 condos and 12 private homes were built on the remaining land with three acres of the meadow preserved for public use. Hammond's Estate is on the only Chumash site in the coastal zone that is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  Some controversy continues regarding use and maintenance of the meadow, one of the few remaining public coastal parcels in Montecito. The adjoining beach is one of California's popular surfing locations.
caption: Mrs. Gardiner Green Hammond (Esther Fiske Hammond), John Singer Sargent, 1903
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