Frederick Hastings Rindge House
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The Frederick Hastings Rindge House is a historic house
Historic house
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 located in the West Adams
West Adams, Los Angeles, California
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 district of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
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, in Los Angeles County, California
Los Angeles County, California
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.

The Rindge House was built in 1902 for Frederick H. Rindge and designed by Frederick Louis Roehrig
Frederick Roehrig
Frederick Louis Roehrig was an early 20th-century American architect. Roehrig was born in LeRoy, New York, the son of the noted "orientalist and philoligist," Frederick L.O. Roehrig He graduated from Cornell University in 1883 and also studied architecture in England and France...

 and E.C. Shipley in a Renaissance Revival-Romanesque Revival
Romanesque Revival architecture
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 Victorian
Victorian architecture
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 style.

In 1986, the Rindge House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
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 based on architectural criteria.

Rindge Ranch

In 1892 Frederick H. Rindge purchased the 13300 acres (5,382.3 ha) Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit
Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit
Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit was a Spanish land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given by Spanish Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1804 to José Bartolomé Tapia.-History:...

 or "Malibu Rancho". He later expanded it to 17000 acres (6,879.7 ha)) as the Rindge Ranch, which encompasses present day Malibu, California.

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