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The house he disappeared into. LA ICONS — N° 12.

In 1984, while he was still hosting The Tonight Show five nights a week, Johnny Carson paid about $9.5 million for four adjoining parcels on the Point Dume bluff. He stayed until his death in 2005.

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He never saw it finished. In 1900 George Boldt — the immigrant kitchen hand who rose to run the Waldorf-Astoria

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The house Keaton saved. LA ICONS — N° 11.

820 North Roxbury Drive was built in 1927. Madonna owned it. Then Diane Keaton bought it, and spent years restoring it rather than replacing it — which is the whole point of her.

Eddie Murphy bought it from her. Now it's for sale again.

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eHe built a wall around it. In 1909 Alfred I. du Pont commissioned Carrère & Hastings to build his wife a Louis XVI château outside Wilmington

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The village Cagney built. LA ICONS — N° 10.

In 1939 James Cagney commissioned a compound below the Franklin Canyon reserve — stone, shingle, terracotta, a cobblestone motor court under old trees.

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Venice, docked in Florida. John Ringling ran the greatest show on earth. Mable wanted a Venetian palace. Between 1924 and 1926 they built one on Sarasota Bay

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The palace of love. LA ICONS — N° 09.

In 2007 an investor who once waited tables paid about $35 million for twenty-five acres above Coldwater Canyon, out of receivership.

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They called it a cottage. In 1893, two thousand workers built Cornelius Vanderbilt II a 70-room Italian palazzo above the Atlantic — in two years, in limestone and steel with not one wooden part, and electric light when almost nothing had it.

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They said it couldn't be built. LA ICONS — N° 08.

In 1954, Buck and Carlotta Stahl paid $13,500 for a cliff edge above the Sunset Strip.

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The house that came with its own hill. In 1914, financier Otto Kahn spent two years building a hill in Cold Spring Harbor — the highest point on Long Island — then put 127 rooms on top of it.

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The villa of flowers. LA ICONS — N° 07.

In 1995, Robert Day paid $7.4 million for a Palladian villa on a 3.3-acre promontory in lower Bel Air.

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LA ICONS — N° 06. Six years to build. One house.

In 2005, on a Beverly Crest ridge, they poured a concrete platform roughly 250 by 750 feet behind retaining walls fifty feet tall.

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She bought this South LA duplex from Canada. Then she made LA agents bid for it.

Your home deserves a bidding war. List free at https://t.co/6ogJTmwWbs — link in bio.

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America's largest home. In 1888, 25-year-old George Vanderbilt visited Asheville and decided to build "a country retreat"

Listabid Recognized N° 05 · America's Finest Homes.

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In 1916, Cecil B. DeMille paid $28,000 for it. LA ICONS — N° 05.

Under $890,000 in today's money — for a three-year-old Beaux-Arts house at the highest point of Laughlin Park, when Los Feliz was still orange groves and dirt roads.

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A 1948— sorry, a 1973 two-bedroom in the White House Condominiums: rooftop deck with 360° views of Sunset, Century City and Downtown, pool and spa, two side-by-side parking spots, a park with a dog run across the street.

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Cary Grant lived here for forty years. LA ICONS — N° 04.

In 1946 he was thirty-two films into the most enviable career in Hollywood when he bought a modest farmhouse on a three-acre promontory above Benedict Canyon.

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The house he drew upside down. LA ICONS — N° 03.

In 1938 the mayor of Beverly Hills commissioned a French Revival manor across from the Los Angeles Country Club.

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The Enchanted Hill. 🏛 In 1919, William Randolph Hearst asked architect Julia Morgan for "a little something" — 28 years later, it was Hearst Castle

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Everything about this San Bernardino home was new. Including how it sold.

A 1946 bungalow rebuilt top to bottom — new roof, windows, HVAC, kitchen, baths

Bids came in as high as 3%. The winning bid came from Daniel Frajio — and $11,960 stayed in the sellers' pocket.