天文台开始是金融家，矿业巨头和房地产开发商格里菲斯·格里菲斯的梦想。他于19世纪60年代从威尔士来到加利福尼亚南部，并最终获得了天文台和公园所在的土地。格里菲斯对他在欧洲看到的大公园着迷，并为洛杉矶设想了一个。最终，他为此目的将自己的财产捐赠给了这座城市。 1904年，格里菲斯访问了附近的威尔逊山天文台（天文学家埃德温·哈勃发现他的发现），并爱上了天文学。他写道：“如果所有人类都可以通过望远镜观察它，它将改变世界。”根据这次访问，格里菲斯决定向这座城市提供资金，在好莱坞山顶建造一座天文台。他想确保公众可以使用望远镜来实现他的愿景。花了一些时间让建筑物获得批准，直到1933年（格里菲斯死后14年），地面才被打破。天文台被认为是科学的纪念碑，永远向公众开放，并且必须承受除最强烈地震之外的所有地震。
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The Observatory began as the dream of financier, mining giant and real estate developer Griffith Griffith. He traveled from Wales to southern California in the 1860s and eventually acquired the land where the observatory and park are located. Griffith was fascinated by the big park he saw in Europe and conceived one for Los Angeles. In the end, he donated his property to the city for this purpose. In 1904, Griffith visited the nearby Mount Wilson Observatory (astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered his discovery) and fell in love with astronomy. He wrote: “If all humans can observe it through a telescope, it will change the world.” According to this visit, Griffith decided to provide funding to the city to build an observatory on the top of Hollywood. He wants to make sure that the public can use the telescope to achieve his vision. It took some time for the building to be approved until the 1933 (14 years after Griffith’s death) and the ground was broken. The Observatory is considered a monument to science, open to the public forever, and must withstand all earthquakes except the most intense earthquakes.