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Category Archives: Paradise For Sale or Lease
Happy Trails for the Hilltop House Ruins?
For those of you who have been following the saga of Apple Valley’s once beautiful but now ruined Hilltop House here at Paradise Leased, which has recently come up for sale, I have an interesting update to share. My friend … Continue reading
High Desert Paradise – Apple Valley’s Historic Hilltop House is For Sale!
Out of the nearly 200 posts presented by Paradise Leased, few have generated the kind of excitement that our 2011 post on Apple Valley’s famous, but forlorned Hilltop House has generated. When I first wrote the post I wasn’t sure if … Continue reading
Then and Now – 345 St. Pierre Road
On Friday the Wall Street Journal reported that one of the great old mansions from silent-era Hollywood has come on the market for an asking price of $13,800,000. For me, this was exciting news as I have always considered the Spanish-styled … Continue reading
Posted in Bel-Air, Paradise For Sale or Lease, Then & Now
Tagged 1231 South Gramercy, 345 St. Pierre Road, 530 South Rossmore Avenue, 812 North Linden Drive, 904 Benedict Canyon Drive, Albert C. Martin, B.P. Schulberg, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegal, Beverly Hills Speedway, Bruce Cabot, C. Fred Stewart, Clarence Cox, Claycraft Potteries, Colleen Moore, Dorothy di Frasso, Edward H. Rust Nurseries, Ella Cinders, Errol Flynn, Gladding, H.L. Miller, Harold Grieve, Harold W. Grieve, John McCormick, Marlene Dietrich, McBean & Company, Minnis Brothers, Ralph Hamlin, Robert Stack, Steven J. Fogel, T.J. Scott, Theo Scott, Theodore J. Scott, Walter G. McCarty
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Miracle on Bel-Air Road!
It’s Christmas in May! Not long ago, lovers of MCM architecture were delighted by the news that the beautiful 1956 Schumacher/Linkletter Estate @ 1100 Bel-Air Road had come on the market for the first time in decades, a house that not … Continue reading
Paradise for Sale – A Few Interesting Southland Homes on the Market
For a very long time now I’ve wanted to highlight on the blog some of the historic properties that come up for sale in Southern California, but ADD has long gotten in the way. But since we are in lockdown … Continue reading
Posted in Central Hollywood, Los Feliz, Paradise For Sale or Lease, Pomona
Tagged 1300 Los Robles Place, 1328 Los Robles Place, 1946 Vine Street, 2172 West Live Oak, 2700 El Contento Drive, Ganesha Hills, Horatio W. Bishop, John Lester Armour, Longview Tract, Los Feliz Terrace, M.P.P.D.A., Roxanne "Linda" Campbell, Stephanie Vitacco, Thomas G. Patten, Will H. Hays
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Then and Now – 1100 Bel-Air Road
It was so exciting to learn yesterday from the ever-on-top-of-things Real Estalker that the great Mid-Century estate at 1100 Bel-Air Road has come up for sale not only because it was the longtime base of the legendary Art Linkletter, but also … Continue reading
Then and Now – 2400 Inverness Avenue Los Feliz
I’m a big fan of Curbed L.A. for so many different reasons, but one of them is they are always on top of finding interesting houses for sale including their post yesterday on the wonderful Spanish home that just came on … Continue reading
It’s Not Complicated – It’s Simply a Great House!
I was pretty late to the party when it came to seeing Nancy Meyers’ 2009 romantic comedy It’s Complicated and whenever I asked anyone who had seen it what they thought the reaction was always the same. “Oh my God, … Continue reading
Hilltop of the Dolls – The Patty Duke/Sharon Tate Residence
“It was a colonial mansion off Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills, jutting out on its own precipice at the top of the mountain with a twelve-car parking lot, a four car garage and a 360-degree view of Los Angeles. Its … Continue reading
