Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1891, 1890s
"Among those who recognized the merits of Santa Monica as a residential communtiy was Frederick H. Rindge, a New Englander who had come to California after suffering a debilitating illness. He and his wife, the former Rhoda May Knight, bought property on Ocean Avenue less than four years after their marriage, purchasing the Santa Monica land on which they made their home in January, 1891. In the same year he bought the Malibu Ranch, which was a part of the original Topanga-Malibu-Sequit grant made to Jose B. Tapia in 1804. Unlike the grants which made up present day Santa Monica, and were given by Mexico, Malibu dates to actual Spanish rule."