rail line became a Santa Fe Railroad line. In 1889, on a site just north of the corner of First Avenue and St. Joseph Street, adjacent to the Santa Fe tracks, Baldwin opened the 35 room Hotel Oakwood to be the centerpiece of his new town. The first liquor license was issued to his oldest daughter Clara Baldwin. This becomes more significant when one understands that Pasadena, which borders Arcadia, was dry from its founding in 1886. In 1890 the Rancho Santa Anita Depot was built serve Lucky Baldwin's interests, and the people and needs of the town.

20th century until World War II

By the turn of the 20th century, Arcadia had a population nearing 500 and an economy that was becoming based on entertainment, sporting, hospitality, and gamblingopportunities. The latter including an early version of the Santa Anita race track.[18] Baldwin oversaw the incorporation of Arcadia into a city in 1903, and was its first mayor.

Anoakia

Anita Baldwin's "Anoakia" mansion and gardens in 1915

In 1913 Anita Baldwin, Lucky's daughter, built a 50-room mansion on 19 acres (77,000 m2) of the Baldwin Ranch she inherited from him, and named it "Anoakia" (Anita and oak).[21] The 17,000-square-foot residence was in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, with murals by Maynard Dixon.[21][22][23] The estate had a significant Greek Revival stylecolonnaded "Parthenon" bathhouse/gymnasium beside a large pool, an apiary and aviaries, kennels and stables, tennis courts and pergolas, and preserved the native oak woodlands.[21]

After her death in 1939 the estate became the Anoakia School for Girls, which became the coeducational Anoakia