Los Angeles's Chester Place - Hardcoverby Don Sloper (Author) Hidden behind massive 120 year old gates a few blocks south of downtown Los Angeles is Chester Place, the oldest gated community in the city. Created as an enclave of the wealthy and powerful in 1899, the remarkably intact stately mansions of this historic neighborhood were once home to the movers and shakers of politics, industry, and entertainment. Beside century old palm trees, the former mansion of oil industry pioneer