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Villa Malfitano Whitaker is a 19th-century villa in Via Dante, in the quarter of Politeama of Palermo, Sicily. It is presently a museum displaying Whitaker's natural ...
The Bel-Air Bay Club is both an event venue (Upper Club) and a private beach club (Lower Club) located in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California. The Upper Club, includes an ocean view and on-site accommodations available for private parties. The interior of the Bel-Air Bay Club Upper Club includes large windows, a fireplace, and iron ...
Palermo is a census-designated place (CDP) in Butte County, California, United States. The population was 5,382 at the 2010 census, down from 5,720 at the 2000 census. The population was 5,382 at the 2010 census, down from 5,720 at the 2000 census.
View from Gardens Sala degli Specchi frescoed by Bergler.. Villa Igiea is a neogothic former residence, now a luxury hotel maintaining some of the Art Nouveau (Liberty) refurbishment completed at the dawn of the 20th-century; the hotel sits on a high outcrop overlooking the sea at Porto dell'Acquasanta, located on Salita Belmonte #43 in the quartiere of Pellegrino of the city of Palermo, Siciy ...
The Balboa Bay Resort is a 160-room resort hotel in Newport Beach, California, United States on 15 acres (6.1 ha). The facility was founded in 1948 as the Balboa Bay Club , a private yacht club . The Balboa Bay Club includes a 130-slip marina, private beach, waterfront pools, private restaurant, a spa and fitness center, and 145 apartments on ...
Marine Corps and Navy officers acted as escorts, one for each contestant. In 1952, George Allen announced the Villa Riviera would seek tourist business and add hotel operations to Villa's many long term apartment residents and owners. This was a short lived experiment as the Villa was converted back to a co-op building in January 1955.
In 1947, Davies sold the estate for $600,000 to hotelier Joseph Drown, who operated it as a luxury hotel and limited-membership beach club. [5] Over the opposition of neighbors Darryl F. Zanuck and Harold Lloyd, the mansion was demolished in 1956. [6] The estate was sold to the State of California in 1960 and developed into a parking lot. [7]
It opened as Club Casa del Mar, a private beach club, on May 1, 1926. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Designed by Los Angeles architect Charles F. Plummer to reflect an Italian Renaissance Revival aesthetic, the glory days of the hotel spanned 1926-41, as it became one of the most successful beach clubs in Southern California, popular with socialites and Hollywood ...