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La Mesa Drive, known as one of the most elite addresses in Santa Monica, is a six-block long, curving street of thirty-seven large, architecturally significant homes built in the 1920s and 1930s. The drive is famous for its mature canopy of Moreton Bay fig trees as well as the high quality of the architecture. The firms of Marston Van Pelt and Maybury, Palmer Sabin, Oscar Niemeyer, and Lloyd Wright all designed homes on the drive. In 1939, Paul R. Williams designed two homes on the street, one for Mrs. W. S. Warfield and this Georgian Revival-style house for Charles Hess. The Hess home was completed at a cost of $18,000. Both homes were added to the Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory in 1983.