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Built in the late 1920s by silent film star Harold Lloyd, it remained Lloyd's home until his death in 1971. The estate originally consisted of a 44-room mansion, golf course, outbuildings, and 900-foot (270 m) canoe run on 15 acres (61,000 m 2). Greenacres has been called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created."
Sumner Spaulding (1892–1952) was an American architect and city planner.He is best known for designing the Harold Lloyd Estate, a.k.a. Greenacres, in Beverly Hills, California, the Catalina Casino in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California, and the Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Greenacres, a historic estate built in 1918 by silent movie star Harold Lloyd. In 1919, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford bought land on Summit Drive and built a mansion, finished in 1921 [ 21 ] and nicknamed " Pickfair " by the press. [ 22 ]
The mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and has been a non-profit museum for several decades. If you stop by for a tour, ask your guide about reported hauntings.
The White House. Washington, D.C. ... a 691-foot skyscraper designed by the architectural firm Lloyd Jones Brewer and Associates. The massive office tower (and former Enron headquarters) was ...
Upon its completion in 1929, [5] Greenacres had a private 9-hole golf course, one of the largest pools in the western US, and a miniature English village built for Lloyd's daughter, Gloria. After Harold Lloyd's death in 1971, the property was left to his family, but mounting debt and a delinquency on the promissory note led City National Bank ...
The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10 ...
Among other well-known properties are mentioned: Playboy Mansion, the former home of Hugh Hefner; Greenacres, the former home of movie star Harold Lloyd now owned by billionaire Ron Burkle; Owlwood Estate previously owned by actors Tony Curtis and Cher; and The Knoll, formerly owned by Dino De Laurentiis, Kenny Rogers, and the former 20th ...