Holmby Hills is a
neighborhood
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on the Westside of
Los Angeles, California
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, United States.
The neighborhood was developed in the early 20th century by the
Janss Investment Company, which developed the rest of
Westwood, Los Angeles
Westwood is a commercial and residential neighborhood in the northern central portion of the Westside (Los Angeles County), Westside region of the city of Los Angeles, California. It is the home of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCL ...
as well as other "LA" neighborhoods. With the expansion of
Sunset Boulevard
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, Holmby Hills was split into northern and southern sections, each lying within a different community plan area designated by the City of Los Angeles: The portion south of Sunset Boulevard extends south to Club View Dr and east to
Beverly Glen Boulevard and west of the
Los Angeles Country Club; it is located within the
Westwood Community Plan Area, but certain characteristics such as the absence of sidewalks and the presence of historic street lamps that are unique to Holmby Hills help to distinguish it from the remainder of Westwood. The portion north of Sunset is the area east of Beverly Glen Boulevard and west of the city limits of
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. A notable and historic suburb of Los Angeles, it is located just southwest of the Hollywood Hills, approximately northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Beverly Hil ...
, with Greendale Drive and Brooklawn Drive as its northernmost streets; it is located within the
Bel Air–
Beverly Crest Community Plan Area, though it is historically distinct from the neighborhoods of both Bel Air and Beverly Crest, as it was developed concurrently with Westwood.
Geography
Holmby Hills, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills form the "
Platinum Triangle" of
Los Angeles
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. It is bordered by the city of
Beverly Hills
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on the east,
Wilshire Boulevard
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on the south,
Westwood on the west, and
Bel Air on the north.
[Spitz, H. May (September 05, 2004)]
"A grander scale of life left intact"
''Los Angeles Times
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''.
In an effort to decrease traffic in the neighborhood,
speed bump
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s have been installed on several key streets.
History
The first European on the land that present-day Holmby Hills,
Bel Air,
Westwood, and
UCLA
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now occupy was the
Spanish soldier Maximo Alanis, who was the grantee of the
Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres from a
Mexican land grant issued by
Alta California
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Governor
Manuel Micheltorena
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in 1843.
In 1859, he sold it to
Benjamin Davis Wilson, of early
Pasadena development, the second
Mayor of Los Angeles
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, and namesake for
Mount Wilson in the
San Gabriel Mountains
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. In 1884, Wilson sold Rancho San Jose de Buenos Ayres, at 2,000 acres (8 km
2), to the nephew of leading pioneer
William Wolfskill, businessman John W. Wolfskill, son of Mathus (Mathius) Wolfskill, William's younger brother. He paid $10 an acre and built a ranch house, near the present-day
Mormon
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Los Angeles Temple.
The development of Holmby Hills began when
Arthur Letts Sr., purchased of the original Wolfskill ranch at $100 an acre.
He called the development "Holmby Hills," which was loosely derived from the name of his birthplace, a small hamlet in England called
Holdenby, and it was also the name of his estate in
Hollywood
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* Hollywood, a metonym for the cinema of the United States
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.
Letts died suddenly in 1923, before he could realize his vision.
His son-in-law,
Harold Janss, took over the project.
Zoning for the community, which straddles Sunset Boulevard, was designed to accommodate lot sizes up to .
The streets were named after places in
Great Britain
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: Devon Avenue after
Devon
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, the county in southwestern England; Charing Cross Road after
Charing Cross
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junction in
London
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; Conway Avenue after
Conwy
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in
Wales
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, etc.
In the 1920s, English-style streetlamps were added specifically for the neighborhood.
After the
Wall Street Crash of 1929, grand mansions were constructed.
In 2012, residents tried to be annexed into the city of
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. A notable and historic suburb of Los Angeles, it is located just southwest of the Hollywood Hills, approximately northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Beverly Hil ...
, to make sure their potholes would be repaired, but this was rejected by
John A. Mirisch, then Beverly Hills city councilor and later mayor.
According to the Holmby Hills Homeowners Association website: "In the 1920s, Sunset Boulevard was a two-lane country road, known as Beverly Boulevard. It was renamed when it was opened through to the Pacific Ocean. When Sunset Boulevard was expanded into a four-lane thoroughfare, Holmby Hills was, for all practical purposes, split into north and south sections."
The northern section is served by th
Holmby Hills Homeowners Association while the southern section is served by th
Holmby Westwood Property Owners Association which it shares with the rest of the northern Westwood area east of UCLA. However, "
2013, the Holmby Hills Homeowners Association Board has decided to reach out to the homeowners south of Sunset (and east of Beverly Glen) to grow the Association with new members also residing in Holmby Hills having similar interests."
In 2000, Holmby Hills was ranked by Higley 1000 as the richest urban neighborhood in the United States. The 2017 report, however, redrew and expanded the neighborhood's boundaries, causing its ranking to slip.
Community
The neighborhood is home to two parks:
Holmby Park and
De Neve Square Park.
The former, Holmby Park, includes two playgrounds, a nine-hole putting green called the
Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990) was an American businessman and philanthropist. The son of a Russian Empire-born communist activist, Hammer trained as a physician before beginning his career in trade with the newly estab ...
Golf Course, and a classic lawn bowling, home to the Holmby Park Lawn Bowling Club started in 1927.
It is located next to the
Los Angeles Country Club.
The
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation is a non-profit arts foundation located on North Carolwood Drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Modern and contemporary artwork in the Frederick R. Weisman collection are displaye ...
, an art gallery named after
Frederick R. Weisman, is located on North Carolwood Street. It includes works by many noted artists, including impressionists, post-impressionist, surrealist, and many more, up through today.
Education
Primary and secondary schools
Public schools
Residents are zoned to the following
Los Angeles Unified School District
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schools: Warner Avenue Elementary School,
Emerson Middle School, and
University High School.
Colleges and universities
Holmby Hills is several blocks east of the
University of California, Los Angeles
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...
(UCLA).
Private schools
The only school located within Holmby Hills is the Middle School (grades 7–9) component of the independent
Harvard-Westlake School. The campus was originally occupied by Westlake School for Girls, which moved from its original site near downtown L.A. to the Holmby Hills campus in 1927. Harvard-Westlake was created in 1989 when Westlake merged with the Harvard School for Boys.
Notable people
*
Nicolas Berggruen
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purchased a 20,000 square-foot home in 2017
*The son of
Arthur Letts (1862–1923) lived in a mansion designed by architect
Arthur Rolland Kelly located at 10236 Charing Cross Road.
[Beale, Lauren (March 27, 2010)]
Streets of gold: L.A.'s most desirable addresses
''Los Angeles Times''. The residence became known as the
Playboy Mansion
The Playboy Mansion, also known as the Playboy Mansion West, is the former home of ''Playboy'' magazine founder Hugh Hefner, who lived there from 1971 until his death in 2017. Barbi Benton convinced Hefner to buy the home located in Holmby H ...
when
Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher. He was the founder and editor-in-chief of ''Playboy'' magazine, a publication with revealing photographs and articles. Hefner extended the ''Playboy ...
purchased it.
*
Fanny Brice
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(1891–1951) resided in a house built in 1938 on North Faring Road, designed by architect
John Elgin Woolf (1908–1980).
[Brennan, Morgan (August 28, 2013)]
"Luxury Home Rehab: Inside The $65 Million Fanny Brice Estate"
''Forbes
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''. Richard and Lauren King later purchased it for $15 million, and they set out to renovate it.
Instead, they demolished it and rebuilt a Georgian-style mansion in its place in 2006.
They listed the new property in 2013.
*
Humphrey Bogart
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(1899–1957) and wife,
Lauren Bacall
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(1924–2014) lived at 232 South Mapleton Drive in a house previously owned by
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000).
*
Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney ( ; December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Golden age of American animation, American animation industry, he introduced several develop ...
(1901–1966) lived on North Carolwood Street.
In 2001, his house was demolished because of the presence of
asbestos
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and replaced by The Carolwood Estate, owned by investor Gabriel Brener.
The Carolwood Estate has eight bedrooms, seventeen bathrooms, a wine cellar, a custom movie room, three bars, a library, a gym, two safe rooms, a pool with a pool house, a tennis court, and a putting green.
*
Barbara Stanwyck (1907–1990) and
Robert Taylor (1911–1969) lived at 423 North Faring Road.
*
Bugsy Siegel
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (; February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American gangster, mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. Siegel was influential within the Jewish-American organized crime, Jewish Mo ...
(1906–1947) built a house in Holmby Hills, but he never lived in it.
However,
Max Factor Sr., founder of
Max Factor, did. Later, producer
Bud Yorkin and his wife
Cynthia Sikes lived in the same house, but they sold it in 2010.
*
Jack Benny
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(1894–1974) and his wife
Mary Livingstone (1905–1983) lived at 10231 Charing Cross Road.
It was then sold to two businessmen consecutively and listed again in 2011.
*
Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990) was an American businessman and philanthropist. The son of a Russian Empire-born communist activist, Hammer trained as a physician before beginning his career in trade with the newly estab ...
(1898–1990), founder of
Occidental Petroleum
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, lived one block from Holmby Park.
*
Irene Dunne
Irene Dunne (born Irene Marie Dunn; December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American actress who appeared in films during Classical Hollywood cinema, the Golden Age of Hollywood. She is best known for her comedic roles, though she perf ...
(1898–1990) lived at 461 North Faring Road.
*
Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901May 13, 1961) was an American actor known for his strong, silent screen persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice and had a further three nominations, ...
(1901–1961) lived in a 5,721 square-foot, four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom house designed by architect
A. Quincy Jones in 1955.
It was later owned by
David Bohnett
David C. Bohnett (born April 2, 1956) is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur. He is the founder and chairman of the David Bohnett Foundation, a non-profit, grant-making organization devoted to improving society through social ...
, co-founder of
GeoCities
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, who listed it in 2010.
*
Lloyd Bridges
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(1913–1998) and his wife,
Dorothy Bridges (1915–2009), raised their children, actors
Jeff Bridges
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and
Beau Bridges
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor. He is a three-time Emmy Award, Emmy, two-time Golden Globe Award, Golden Globe and one-time Grammy Award winner, as well as a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award nomine ...
, in the neighborhood.
*
Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer, comedian, entertainer and actor. The first multimedia star, he was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century worldwi ...
(1903–1977) lived at 594 South Mapleton Drive.
*
Joan Bennett (1910–1990) lived in a
Provençal-style mansion in Holmby Hills designed by architect
Wallace Neff for fifteen years.
*
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the ...
(1911–1937) lived at 1535 Club View Drive.
*
Alan Ladd
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(1913–1964) lived in a 9,200-square-foot, one-story, five-bedroom, seven-bathroom house designed by architect
Wallace Neff. It was later owned by businessman Gerard Sullivan from 1990 to 2012.
*
Sidney Sheldon
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(1917–2007) lived in a house designed by architect
Paul Williams in Holmby Hills.
It is now the private residence of
Max Azria
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(born 1949).
*
Aaron Spelling (1923–2006) and his wife
Candy Spelling as well as their two children
Tori Spelling
Victoria Davey Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an American actress. Her first major role was Donna Martin (character), Donna Martin on ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', from 1990 to 2000. She has appeared in made-for-television films, including ''A Fri ...
and
Randy Spelling lived in
The Manor located at 594 South Mapleton Drive.
It was sold to
Petra Ecclestone for $85 million in 2011.
*
Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress, ''Playboy'' Playmate, and sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s. She was known for her numerous publicity stunts and open personal life. He ...
(1933–1967) lived at the
Pink Palace located at 10100 Sunset Boulevard.
It later became the home of
Engelbert Humperdinck but was demolished in 2002.
*
Ernest Carroll Moore (1871–1955) lived on Woodruff Avenue.
*
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (koʊlˈbɛər/ kohl-BAIR, born Émilie "Lily" Claudette Chauchoin (ʃoʃwɛ̃/ show-shwan); September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was an American actress. Colbert began her career in Broadway theater, Broadway productions dur ...
(1935–1963) 615 North Faring Road.
*
Barbra Streisand
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lived on North Carolwood Drive, as did
Clark Gable
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(1901–1960), and
Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars, 12th-greatest male ...
(1916–2003).
*
Sean Combs
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(born 1969), founder of Bad Boy Entertainment, as well as rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive, actor and entrepreneur
*
Frank Sinatra
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(1915–1998) lived on North Carolwood Drive in the late 1940s.
His house was later owned by
Brad Grey
Brad Alan Grey (December 29, 1957 – May 14, 2017) was an American television and film producer. He co-founded Brillstein-Grey Entertainment (now Brillstein Entertainment Partners), and afterwards became the chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictur ...
, CEO of
Paramount Pictures
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, who demolished it in August 2012 to sell it as an empty lot for a new construction.
*In 1989,
Casey Kasem
Kemal Amin "Casey" Kasem (April 27, 1932 – June 15, 2014) was an American disc jockey, actor, and radio presenter who created and hosted several radio countdown programs, notably ''American Top 40'', as well as the weekly syndicated televi ...
purchased a home built in 1954 and located at 138 North Mapleton Drive, previously owned by developer
Abraham M. Lurie, as a birthday present for his wife,
Jean Kasem.
In 2013, he listed it for $43 million.
*In 2009,
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as Cultural impact of Michael Jackson, one of the most culturally significan ...
(b. 1958)
died in a rented mansion in Holmby Hills.
[Lauren Beale]
Michael Jackson's last home sells for $18.1 million
''Los Angeles Times'', November 02, 2012 The house, designed by architect
Richard Landry, belonged to Hubert Guez, CEO of the clothing line
Ed Hardy and his wife Roxane.
Steven Mayer, a senior managing director at Cerberus Capital Management, purchased it for $18.1 million in 2012.
*
W. Howard Lester, former CEO of
Williams-Sonoma, Inc., lived in an 18,000-square-foot seven-bedroom, thirteen bathroom mansion with a wine cellar, a billiards room and a gym in Holmby Hills from 2004 to his death in 2010; the house was listed for sale in 2012.
*
Jon Feltheimer lived in a 6,400-square-foot, five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom house built in 1927 in Holmby Hills from 2009 to 2011.
*
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling musicians of all time.
He has written and ...
lived at 161 South Mapleton Drive.
*
Donald Bren lives in Holmby Hills.
*
Bradley Bell and wife
Colleen Bell resides in Holmby Hills with children.
*
David I. Saperstein and his ex-wife Suzanne Saperstein built
Fleur de Lys in 2002. It was designed by architect Richardson Robertson III. After their divorce, the mansion spent many years on the market, with many rumors floating regarding its sale. The property eventually sold in March 2014 for $88.3 million to an anonymous buyer
*
Jeremy Renner
Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in independent films such as ''Dahmer (film), Dahmer'' (2002) and ''Neo Ned'' (2005), then supporting roles in bigger films, such as ''S.W.A.T. (20 ...
and Kristoffer Winters purchased an art deco-style mansion called The Reserve in Holmby Hills for US$7 million in 2010 and renovated it with the help of architect Phillip Vertoch.
They then sold it for US$24 million in 2013.
*
Kylie Jenner
Kylie Kristen Jenner (born August 10, 1997) is an American media personality, socialite and businesswoman. She starred in the E! reality television series ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians'' from 2007 to 2021 and then the Hulu reality televisi ...
bought a $36.5 million mansion in Holmby Hills.
*
Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor ( ; February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite. Gabor voiced Duchess and Miss Bianca in the Disney animations ''The Aristocats'' (1970), ''The Rescuers'' (1977), and ''The Rescuers Down Under'' ...
, actress and socialite lived at 100 Delfern Drive from 1974 to 1995.
[ Former Los Angeles Home of Eva Gabor Hits Market for $14 Million, https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/former-los-angeles-home-of-eva-gabor-hits-market-for-14-million-65943, date=June 16, 2017, ]
See also
*
List of largest houses in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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*
Westside (Los Angeles County)
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