C. E. Toberman Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

“Toberman Estate, also known as Villa Las Colinas, is a gated Mission Revival mansion and estate on Camino Palmero in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, and as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1984.”
Wikipedia article C.E. Toberman Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Toberman, C. E., Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1847 Camino Palmero, Hollywood, 90046
When was it listed? September 1983
Category. building
Census division. Los Angeles
Architectural style. Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 83001205 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering C. E. Toberman Estate, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering C. E. Toberman Estate, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

90 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of C. E. Toberman Estate between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,067 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Smoking	14
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	EAST FIRE
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Los Angeles County Fire Department	not named
21 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
18 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	FRANKLIN
7 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
30 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	FRYMAN

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of C. E. Toberman Estate: 3 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Clay, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Forest Lawn Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
J. Jensen	Clay	Unknown
Unnamed Adit	Gold, Copper	Prospect
Unnamed Calcite Occurrence	Calcium	Prospect
Cahuenga	Gold	Prospect
Brush Canyon Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Los Angeles Park Dept. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mill City Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Storms near this property

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hollywood, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 high wind, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollywood	-	Strong thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees in the Hollywood area.
March 2025	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Strong thunderstorms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in the city of Los Angeles. At the intersection of Highway 101 and Campo de Cahuenga, significant road flooding was reported.
February 2023	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Heavy rainfall generated flash flooding on Highway 101 near Campo de Cahuenga. All lanes of the 101 experienced significant flooding.
August 2023	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Heavy rain generated flash flooding near the community of Burbank. Northbound lanes of Highway 170 were flooded.
December 2023	Debris Flow	West Hollywood	-	A significant mud and debris flow damaged a patio at a residence in Beverly Hills.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hollywood	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down seven power poles near Hollywood.
September 2007	Flash Flood	Hollywood	-	California Highway Patrol reported significant flooding at the intersection of Highway 101 and Los Feliz Boulevard.
March 2006	Flash Flood	North Hollywood	-	Heavy rain produced flash flooding in the North Hollywood area. California Highway Patrol reported the car pool lane of SR-170 was closed at Riverside Drive due to flooding.
March 2002	High Wind	Hollywood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1926 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1948 USGS Burbank quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1953 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Hollywood quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Yamashiro Historic District	0.2 miles	2012
Highland-Camrose Bungalow Village	0.2 miles	1989
Woman's Club of Hollywood	0.3 miles	2016
Hollywood Masonic Temple	0.6 miles	1985
Villa Bonita	0.6 miles	1986
Henry O. Bollman House	0.7 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001205 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Los Angeles County	All 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.