With the completion of the American railroads in the 1880s and the publicity that followed, luring Easterners and Midwesterners to Americas newly conceived Eden, Los Angeles, a city of farms, was transformed into a city of houses. From the orange groves of Pasadena to the PAcific shores of Santa Monica, neighbourhoods emerged with houses whose diverse architecture immediately revealed the independent spirit of early residents. Queen Anne, Arts and Crafts, Beaux-Arts, Moorish and Mission houses, designed by the city's first generation of trained architects - Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey, Greene nGreen, Robert D. Farquhar, Alfred F. Rosenheim - initiated Los ANgeles' engagement with national and international architectural developments.
