This is the office for the Rivendell Land Company, a real estate development company owned and operated by William Griffith. For the past 25 years, Griffith and his team of developers have created some of San Juan Capistrano's most successful housing developments and business centers in the town and neighboring Dana Point and Laguna Niguel. Two projects associated with Rivendell Land are the Downtown Lighting Project and the refurbishing of the historic modern Esslinger Building (1948), where these offices are located.