This little street was named in 1910 as a memento of the lost Hotel Arcadia, a once-grand resort that opened on this spot in 1887. It was named in honor of Arcadia Bandini de Baker (1827-1912), the “First Lady of Santa Monica” and one of the biggest landowners in Victorian era Los Angeles. (See DTLA’s Arcadia Street for much more on her.) The Hotel Arcadia’s glory days didn’t last long: it closed in 1906 and the building was derelict in 1909, when Santa Monica developer Carl F. Schader tore it down to make room for his new Seaside Terrace tract.
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