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The house was built in 1919–1921 as a summer retreat for the Wrigleys of Chicago, who owned 99% of Santa Catalina Island, one of the Channel Islands of California. [3] It was designed in the Georgian Colonial Revival style by architect Zachary Taylor Davis, who had also designed Wrigley Field in Chicago, and would return to design Wrigley ...
George Rufus Shatto (August 15, 1850 – May 30, 1893) was an American real estate developer. He was an early land investor in Los Angeles, California . In 1887 he purchased Santa Catalina Island, California and was the first person to attempt to develop it into a resort destination.
Santa Catalina Island (Spanish: Isla Santa Catalina; often shortened to Catalina Island or Catalina, and also known as Pimu [1] as the traditional name of the Indigenous people of the Tongva Tribe) is a rocky island, part of the Channel Islands, off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina. The island covers an area of ...
Avalon is located on Santa Catalina Island, approximately 22 miles (35 km) south-by-southwest of the Los Angeles Harbor breakwater. [27] It is the only incorporated city to be located on one of the eight Channel Islands of California. Due to its location on Catalina Island, it is the southernmost city in Los Angeles County.
Shatto purchased the island for $200,000 from the Lick estate at the height of the real estate boom in Southern California in 1887. [16] Shatto created the settlement that would become Avalon, and can be credited with building the town's first hotel, the original Hotel Metropole, and pier. [ 16 ]
Isla Santa Catalina, officially known as Isla Catalana, [1] [2] [3] is an island in the Gulf of California east of the Baja California Peninsula. The island is uninhabited and is part of the Loreto Municipality. The island is located south of the Gulf of California and is located 25 km from the peninsula of Baja California.
Two Harbors, colloquially known as "The Isthmus", is a small unincorporated community island village on the island of Santa Catalina Island, California, United States, with a population of 298 (Census of 2000). It is the second center of population on the island, besides the city of Avalon. It is mainly a resort village.
The Gulf of Santa Catalina, also the Gulf of Catalina, is a gulf in the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast of the United States. The eastern coast of the gulf belongs to the states of California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. The largest town on the shore of the gulf is San Diego. The islands in the gulf include Santa Catalina Island.