The Manor
This opulent homestead was recently put on the market by Aaron Spelling's widow for $150 million, making it the most expensive home for sale in the U.S. The Manor, at almost 57,000 square feet, includes a bowling alley, beauty parlor, wine tasting room, gift-wrapping room, and a humidity-controlled silver storage room.
Malcolm and Florence Edna Letts McNaghten selected Gordon B. Kaufmann as the architect for their South Mapleton Drive estate...Kaufmann returned to the eclectic Colonial Revival style that he had introduced so successfully at the Captain John D. Fredericks home on Chalon Road in Bel Air...
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Beverly House/William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies Estate
The world of William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies was one of extravagant mansions, dazzling parties, celebrity friends and hangers-on, and million-dollar shopping trips to Europe, all bound together by a genuine love...The mansion at 1700 Lexington Road was the first in a series of lavish Beverly Hills homes.
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Beverly House/William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies Estate
Originally, the mansion was designed by Gordon B.Kaufmann for Milton Getz, Vice President of the Union Bank and Trust Company, and his wife Estelle. A lush two-story paneled library...held Estelle Getz's extensive and well-read collection of rare books.
Tim Street-Porter from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Fleur de Lys
Upon its completion in 2002, Fleur de Lys was instantly acclaimed as one of Los Angeles's greatest estates.
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Fleur de Lys
The front entrance to the elegantly restrained French palace opens onto a two-story reception hall, with a white and gold-leaf paneled ceiling and a marble floor, which end at twin staircases that rise to the second floor.
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Decades after Holmby Hills went on the market..., this Carolwood Drive estate was created through the purchase of two adjacent properties. The existing homes were demolished, providing a 3.8-acre parcel with enough flat land for the mansion and its grounds.
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Bel-Air Road is one of the most desirable--and most storied--streets in Los Angeles...The first mansion constructed in Bel-Air occupied this prized Bel-Air Road site...The grounds were the estate's most spectacular feature.
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
St. Cloud Road
Few Los Angeles residences were home to more Hollywood celebrities, one after another, than a large mansion that once stood on this one-acre property...The mansion became increasingly dated and rundown and, in the late 1980s, it was finally demolished.
Tim Street-Porter from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
St. Cloud Road
The new owner completed the mansion to the highest standards. The estate--named "La Belle Vie"--became a much-admired addition to Old Bel-Air, because it was not only large and impressive but also tasteful and refined…the owner had decisively proved that great estates were not a thing of the past.
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
Burton E. Green Estate
If anyone could rightfully claim to be the father of Beverly Hills, it was Burton E. Green, the oil millionaire who drilled his first productive well near the Los Angeles Civic Center in 1901...From this grand estate, Green guided the development of Beverly Hills...
Randolph Harrison from The Legendary Estates of Beverly Hills by Jeffrey Hyland, Rizzoli New York, 2008.
