Harold Lloyd Estate
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'Greenacres' - Harold Lloyd Estate
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Greenacres, Harold Lloyd Estate in 1974
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| Location | 1740 Green Acres Drive, Beverly Hills, California 34°5′17″N 118°25′37″W / 34.08806°N 118.42694°WCoordinates: 34°5′17″N 118°25′37″W / 34.08806°N 118.42694°W |
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| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Webber, Staunton & Sumner Spaulding |
| Landscape architect | A.E. Hanson |
| Architectural style | Mediterranean Revival architecture |
| NRHP Reference # | 84000876 |
| CHISL # | 961 |
| LAHCM # | 279 |
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| Added to NRHP | February 9, 1984 |
| Designated LAHCM | July 24, 1984 |
The Harold Lloyd Estate, also known as Greenacres, is a large mansion and landscaped estate located in the Benedict Canyon section of Beverly Hills, California. 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 m2). Greenacres has been called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created." After Lloyd died, the acreage in the lower part of the estate along Benedict canyon was subdivided into approximately 14 large home lots, though the mansion remained up on top of its own hilltop with approximately 5 original acres of flat land and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
In 1923, Lloyd purchased a historic home site from P.E. Benedict at the mouth of Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills, California. The land had been owned by the Benedict family for more than sixty years and was close to the spot where Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks had built their famed Pickfair estate.
In 1925, Lloyd hired architect Sumner Spaulding of the firm Webber, Staunton & Spaulding, after an introduction by landscape architect A.E. Hanson, to design a house on the property. Lloyd also hired Hanson to landscape the 15-acre (61,000 m2) grounds.
The final plans for the house were not completed until July 1927, at which time the Los Angeles Times published the architectural drawing. The home was designed in the Italian Renaissance Mediterranean Revival style: modeled after the Villa Palmieri near Florence. Construction of the mansion began in July 1927 and was completed in 1928.
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