Garden of the Chapman Park Hotel, Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1935

Garden of the Chapman Park Hotel, Wilshire Boulevard between Mariposa and Alexandria Avenues, Los Angeles, 1935. Formerly named the Alexandria Hotel, it was built in 1906 and enlarged in 1909. The Santa Ysabel Land Company, controlled by Charles C. Chapman and his son, Stanley Chapman, purchased the hotel in 1930. It housed the United States women for the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Garden party at Charles C. Chapman's home, Fullerton, California, 1914

Garden party at Charles C. Chapman's home, Fullerton, California, September 5, 1914.

Garden party at Charles C. Chapman's home, Fullerton, California, 1914

Garden party at Charles C. Chapman's home, Fullerton, California, September 5, 1914.

Garden party at Charles C. Chapman's home, Fullerton, California, 1914

Garden party at Charles C. Chapman's home, Fullerton, California, September 5, 1914. Seated under a canopy with unidentified others are Mr. Harry Dierker and Mrs. C. O. Goodwin.

Formal garden of Charles C. Chapman, Fullerton, California, 1914

Formal garden of Charles C. Chapman, Fullerton, California. Photograph taken on day of garden party, September 5, 1914.

Formal garden of the Charles C. Chapman home, Fullerton, California

Formal garden of the Charles C. Chapman home, Fullerton, California, in the 1920s.

Original Chapman home ranch packing house, Santa Ysabel, California, ca. 1900

Original Chapman home ranch packing house, Santa Ysabel, California, ca. 1900. [copy print]