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Frederick Hastings Rindge (December 21, 1857 – August 29, 1905) was an American business magnate, patriarch of the Rindge family, real estate developer, philanthropist, and writer, of Los Angeles, California. He was a major benefactor to his home town of Cambridge, Massachusetts and a founder of present-day Malibu, California.
Mr. Samuel Baker Rindge's descendants, including his son Frederick Hastings Rindge, went on to build grand mansions in Malibu (the Rindge home that burned down in 1903 and the Rindge Castle that burned down in the 1970s), and in West Adams Heights, Los Angeles, California, (the Frederick Hastings Rindge House).
Frederick Rindge could trace his ancestry back to Daniel Rindge in Puritan Massachusetts in the 17th century. The Rindge family had done well, and when Frederick's father died in 1883, and his mother two years later, Frederick was the sole heir to a Boston textile manufacturing and real estate fortune variously estimated at $170 million to $850 million in 2023 dollars. [6]
In terms of size and scale, the estate is nearly unrivaled — even in a market as affluent as Malibu. It spans 9.5 acres and includes a rare 300 feet of ocean frontage near El Pescador State Beach.
An aerial view of beachside homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire along Pacific Coast Highway as wildfires cause damage and loss through the LA region on January 16, 2025 in Malibu, California.
The beaches are empty in Malibu as a wildfire tears through swaths of the iconic Southern California coastline, consuming homes and vehicles and forcing residents – including legendary actor ...
In 1892 Frederick H. Rindge purchased the 13,300-acre (5,400 ha) Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit or "Malibu Rancho". [2] He later expanded it to 17,000 acres (6,900 ha)) as the Rindge Ranch, which encompasses present day Malibu, California, and Rhoda May ran it, its oil derrick, and railroad after Frederick's death, also founding the Rindge Dam, Malibu Potteries, and what ...
Rindge was strictly opposed to the idea, entering the law office of O'Melveny & Myers in 1907 [4] [5] to take up the new fight against the Federal Government and People of the State of California. [5] What ensued was an approximately 16-year fight costing Rindge over $1 million a year, [6] [7] first to keep out the roads, then Roosevelt Highway ...