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The exhibit features historic photographs of Marion Davies and her estate’s five elaborately decorated buildings, landscape and swimming pool from the Bison Archives. Hours: Thursday 2-5. Friday Saturday Sunday 11-5
Marion Davies Estate, North Guest House | Santa Monica Conservancy. Known As. The Guest House, Georgian Revival. Architect. Julia Morgan. Built. 1929. Designated. July 17, 1980. Location. 415 Pacific Coast Highway Santa Monica, CA 90402. Get Directions.
- The Hearsts
- The Versailles of Hollywood
- World War II
- Closing
- Transformation
The opulent Santa Monica home tycoon William Randolph Hearst gifted to his mistress silent movie actress Marion Davies was built in 1929. It was originally called Ocean House but it was soon changed to Beach House, which stuck, and became part of Hollywood History. The mansion in which Hearst and Davies dwelled was built on 5 acres of land and cont...
Once it was finished the house was known as the “Versailles of Hollywood”. Davies was known for her lavish costume parties, which were the hottest ticket in Tinseltown. These were themed parties similar to those she hosted at San Simeon. The list of typical guests that would attend these illustrious galas was a venerable who’s who of Old Hollywood....
Davies would continue to live in the Beach House until 1942, when concerns about a Japanese invasion during World War II, caused her to vacate the property. Five years later the property was sold for $600,000 to hotelier Joseph Drown. Drown would turn the main house into a hotel. The rest of the grounds he turned into a limited-membership beach clu...
The hotel closed in the early 1950s, and the mansion, and a piece of Hollywood history was demolished in 1956. This, to the protests of Hollywood legends Harold Lloyd and Darryl F. Zanuck. The land which hosted lavish parties for decadent Hollywood stars was sold in 1959 to the State of California and turned into a parking lot. The Sand and Sea Clu...
By the mid-2000s the heyday of the property was forgotten as it languished in a state of decay. Philanthropist Wallis Annenberg, who had spent summers at the Sand and Sea Club made a financial commitment of over $27,000,000. She intended to transform the property into a first-class public facility. Now known as the Annenberg Community Beach House. ...
Built in 1929, Ocean House—later called simply the Beach House—was a hot spot on Santa Monica's Gold Coast in the 1930s and 1940s, as William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies entertained Hollywood's elite at Davies' 5-acre (20,000 m 2) estate.
The 5-acre oceanfront site upon which the Annenberg Community Beach House now sits was originally developed during the Gold Coast era of the 1920s by William Randolph Hearst for actress Marion Davies. The Davies estate featured a mansion of 100-plus rooms and an ornate marble swimming pool.
Annenberg Community Beach House docent, Michael Burton, gives a tour of the Marion Davies Estate on Friday, October 8, 2021.The Annenberg Community Beach Hou...
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William Randolph Hearst's oceanside estate for actress Marion Davies is now a community beach house open to the general public, no membership required. Address. 415 Pacific Coast Highway Santa Monica, CA 90402. Get directions. Architects. Julia Morgan, William Flannery. Style. Georgian. Decade. 1920s. Designation. CA Point of Historical Interest.
