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Rindge was born Rhoda May Knight in 1864, the eighth child of James and Rhoda Roxanna Lathrop Knight. [1] [24] She grew up on a sheep farm outside Trenton, Michigan with 12 siblings. [25] [9] [26] [27] By age 22, she was working as a math teacher at a local schoolhouse. [28] [29] Knight's family was strictly Methodist.
Malibu Potteries was founded by Rhoda May Knight Rindge in 1926. [2] A fire devastated the company 30 September 1931, and the company closed in 1932. Tile designs included influences the styles of Moorish , Egyptian , Mayan and Saracen cultures.
Frederick and wife Rhoda May Knight Rindge's daughter, Rhoda Agatha, commissioned Malibu's Adamson House with her husband, Merritt Adamson. The Rindge family fortune has been valued at US$700 million in 2016 dollars accounting for inflation [8] and were close friends of the Roosevelt family. [9]
Frederick Rindge and his wife, Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941), went to Los Angeles in 1887, when it was still a frontier. There, he was successful in various business ventures, including founding the Conservative Life Insurance Company and the Los Angeles Edison Electric Company. [8] Rindge became one of the wealthiest men in the state.
In 1887 Rindge married 22-year-old Rhoda May Knight (1864–1941) of Michigan. They moved to Wilshire and Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica and then built a home at 2263 Harvard Boulevard in Los Angeles, known today as the Frederick Hastings Rindge House ; weekends and summers were spent at their Malibu estate. [ 18 ]
Herbster Community Center: Herbster Community Center: August 15, 1997 : Lenawee Rd., S of jct. of Lenawee Rd. and WI 13: Herbster: Town hall/gymnasium/community center constructed in Rustic style in 1939-40, a WPA project. [17] 13
Tracy Schuhmacher, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle December 12, 2023 at 4:36 AM Bar Bad Ending will open soon in the former Rosen Krown, a longstanding dive bar at 875 Monroe Ave.
After the death of her husband, Rhoda Rindge Adamson continued to live in the house until her own death in April 1962. [4] After her death, her heirs announced plans to build a $10–12 million "deluxe Waikiki -type beach resort" on the 13-acre (53,000 m 2 ) site, while preserving the house as an art and history museum.