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The history behind the addresses: estates, hotels and the people who built the city.
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks brought movie glamour to the hills in 1919, and Harold Lloyd outbuilt them a few years later. One estate is listed on the National Register. The other was almost entirely torn down.
The 1911 Beaux Arts house and its six acres of gardens are open only by reservation. Here's how to get in.
It was built as a 55-room gift from an oil fortune and saved from demolition by the city in 1965. The gardens are open daily, and you can see inside the mansion one weekend a month.
It opened in 1912, before the city existed. It wasn't painted pink until 1948. In 2012 it became the city's first historic landmark.
Lima beans, a failed oil hunt, a hotel built to sell lots, and a few hundred residents was all it took to start the most famous small city in America.
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