Krotona

Originally built in Hollywood during 1912, the colony was eventually relocated to Ojai, California, in 1926, where it operates today as the Krotona Institute of Theosophy.

[2] Located just off of State Route 33, the Krotona Institute holds regular classes and workshops on Theosophy, maintains an extensive library on the occult, and has a small bookstore.

When the Krotonians, spurred by Madame Blavatsky, found Hollywood suffocating their peace-filled theosophies, they decided to move to Ojai California and that is where they have been ever since.

It was about a year before the Primrose building went up that Alice Bailey, subsequently a Theosophical and Spiritualist leader and author, moved to a "cottage on Beechwood Drive," to be near the Krotona colony, from Pacific Grove, CA, near Monterey.

Her own Master, Lord K. H. or Koot Hoomi, had made visits to her every few years, starting she said in 1895, this being one of his many duties in his role as a pupil or assistant to the Christ.

Architectural concept drawing, LA Times , 29 September 1912
Augustus Knudsen, 1st Dean of Krotona, [ 1 ] at the Lotus Pond, a Krotona landmark that was located just west of Temple Hill Drive, in Los Angeles, 1916