Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182 pp., 1916
"420 Mesa-Mission-style Craftman house, built in 1916 by William Benton. He was an artist who designed major exhibits, worked for the movie studios, and . . . created the decor for the Palace of Transportation at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition held in San Francisco in 1915 . . . In the 1930s and 1940s . . . Mystery writer Craig Rice was also a short-term resident."