This street takes its name from the “home of golf”: the Old Course at St Andrews. Located in Fife, Scotland, St Andrews is the oldest golf course in the world, dating back to the early 1400s. Our St Andrews was laid out in 1901 on the W.G. Nevin tract. It was originally just two blocks long, as were its three fellow “Places”: Manhattan, Gramercy, and Wilton. Two years earlier, the Los Angeles Country Club had relocated right across the street (at Pico and Western), making this heretofore unremarkable bit of land much more valuable – and surely inspiring the St Andrews moniker. The W.G. Nevin tract took its own name from railroad exec William G. Nevin (1855-1902), himself a Country Club member, who purchased the forty acre property in 1900 from Otto G. Wilhelm (1874-1951). Wilhelm was a native Angeleno whose German family had farmed the land years earlier.
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