Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts), 1920, 1900s, 1884
"Abbot Kinney and Margaret Dabney Thornton, the daughter of a California Supreme Court justice, were married on November 18th, 1884. The couple move to a new home on the bluffs of Santa Monica overlooking the Pacific . . . Kinney became active in its development.
"He formed a construction firm, the Santa Monica Improvement Association, which received contracts for a number of private and public buildings in Santa Monica and paved and landscaped the road connecting Santa Monica with the Soldiers Home several miles away. . .
"Kinney formed a land syndicate to purchase 247 acres on the northern boundary of Santa Monica. It was steep hilly terrain and Kinney visualized it as a future Southern California K(sic)nob Hill. His plans were never realized and the land was eventually sold to Collis B. Huntington.