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Byrdview Mansion in Los Angeles
Sep 27, 2021
L.A.?s #1 Celebrity Home: Sinatra to Monroe & Mad Men!
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Byrdview , LA Mansion For Sale

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Southern California?s star-studded home, Farralone, was built for Chase Bank heiress-and-socialite Dora Hutchinson. It was a longtime home for Frank Sinatra and, according to legend, was the site of JFK’s affair with Marilyn Monroe. It has been a film site for many films and television shows including Mad Men, Californication and Dreamgirls. Recently restored, updated and renamed Byrdview, it is for sale at $21.5 million.
In 1949, Dora hired futuristic-architect William Pereira to design Farralone. He was one of the most famous and prolific architects of the time, who had also been a film-set designer, director and producer for several 1940’s movies, winning an Oscar for his special effects photography work on Cecille B. De Mille’s Reap the Wild Wind in 1942. He later became a professor of architecture at the University of Southern California, where one of his students was Frank Gehry.

In his career, Pereira worked on over 400 projects including the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and his most famous, the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. In 19...