Archive for the 'Celebrity Homes' Category
Entourage Mansion
Filed under: California, Celebrity Homes, TV & Movies
This is an aerial view of the mansion used for exterior shots for HBO series Entourage. The house is located on La Collina Drive in Beverly Hills.
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Neverland Ranch
Filed under: California, Celebrity Homes
Neverland Valley Ranch is owned by American pop star Michael Jackson. It is located in Los Olivos, California. As seen above, it has it’s own private amusement park. The name Neverland comes from the story Peter Pan.
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Brady Bunch House
Filed under: California, Celebrity Homes, TV & Movies
The house used in exterior shots (which bears little relation to the interior design of the Bradys’ home) is located at 11222 Dilling St., North Hollywood, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California. According to a 1994 article in the Los Angeles Times, the San Fernando Valley house was built in 1959 and selected as the Brady residence because series creator Schwartz felt it looked like a home where an architect would live.
The real house is a split-level ranch home. A false window was attached to the front’s A-frame section to give the illusion it had two full stories during filming of the series’ many establishing shots, all of which took place before the program debuted.
The address of the house in the series was given as 4222 Clinton Way (or Avenue). Although no city was ever specified, it was presumed from references to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Rams, and a Hollywood movie studio, among others, that the Bradys lived in Southern California, presumably Los Angeles or one of its suburbs. In The Brady Bunch in the White House, Cindy’s map and Mike’s speech state that the family lived in Santa Monica, California.
In the years since the show first aired, those who have owned the house have had problems with visitors who trespass on the property to peep into the windows (perhaps expecting to see an interior that looked like the set of The Brady Bunch), or who even came to the front door asking to see the fictional Bradys. As a result, the property has been extensively re-landscaped, so someone casually driving by most likely would not recognize it as the house shown in the TV show. For many fans, however, it is indeed still recognizable as the Brady house.
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Versace Mansion
Filed under: Celebrity Homes, Florida
The former home of Gianni Versace is now a private club.
One July morning in the summer of 1997, returning from his customary walk on Ocean Drive, he was gunned down outside his ocean-front mansion in Miami Beach, Florida. He was murdered by spree killer Andrew Cunanan, who committed suicide shortly after the murder. Police reported that Andrew Cunanan had committed suicide using the same handgun that had been used to murder Gianni Versace. He was buried in Lake Como, Italy.
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Graceland
Filed under: Celebrity Homes, Landmarks, Tennessee
Graceland is the name of the large white-columned estate that once belonged to Elvis Presley, located at 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. It currently serves as a museum that was opened to the public in 1982, and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1991.
On March 27, 2006, Gale Norton, United States Secretary of the Interior, designated Graceland a National Historic Landmark—joining the White House, the Alamo, Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Dealey Plaza, and Mount Vernon. However, as there are almost 2,500 sites in the United States sharing this designation, the elevation, according to John Harris, “falls slightly short”, as such legendary sites also include “the Frederick Bagg Bonanza Farm in North Dakota and Kentucky’s Louisville Water Company Pumping Station.”
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