Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1884, 1880s
p. 9 [Photo Caption: "Third St., northward from Utah Ave. (Broadway), c. 1881, with horses and buggies and plank two story shop, and with some tree growth evident]
In 1884 Williamson D. Vawter, one of the founders of the First Presbyterian Church, and his sons William S. [Vawter] and Edwin J. [Vawter] . . . acquired 100 acres of the Lucas tract, adjoining Santa Monica to the south, for $40 per acre. By 1885 St. Monica's Catholic Church moved into its building on Third St. In 1888 St. Augustine's Episcopal curch moved into its new building on the site of the present church in the 1200 block on Fourth St,, although Episcopal services had been held in a variety of places ever since 1875.