In 1922 following in the wake of World War I, a group of Methodists gathered on a mesa above the Pacific Ocean at the outer edge of Los Angeles to dedicate a new planned community devoted to spiritual ideals, education and peace. Ascending the bluffs the visitor entered Pacific Palisades through the street Via de la Paz, the “Way of Peace,” a straight avenue focused on the distant “Peace Hill” a gently rising slope at the base of the brush-covered Santa Monica Mountains. Initially the site for Easter sunrise services, Peace Hill was for a time considered as a site for a "Temple of Peace" where leaders and persons of good faith could meet to discuss and mediate world conflicts--a sort of adjunct to the then emerging League of Nations.

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