Filed under: Estates

Today’s home is listed with Kurt Rappaport of Westside Realty which as usual with him means we get a whole lot of photos. And today’s home is worth it. The Harvey Mudd estate was designed by Elmer Grey in 1922 and sits on an acre of beautifully groomed land that includes a pool. Harvey Mudd was, as the Real Estalker mentioned, a Los Angeles based mining magnate and engineer whose name may be familiar to some as adorning Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, a science and engineering college. I attended Pitzer College, another of the Claremont Colleges for a time, and remember fondly the students of Harvey Mudd who were known for riding unicycles, throwing wild themed parties and blowing off steam in very very special ways after exams.

Mudd’s home has recently been in the hands of John Bersci, a noted house flipper in the area. The Real Estalker reveals that the home was listed for $5.95 million around the time Bercsi bought the home in 2004. The Tudor style home has seven bedrooms and many impressive details such as handcarved wood paneling and bannisters, leaded glass windows and ornate floors. As the Real Estalker points out, the weak point is the kitchen which doesn’t match the grandeur of the rest of the home. I suspect also that some of the bathrooms need an upgrade. But what you’re really paying for is the impressive swath of land on Benedict Canyon Drive and the beautiful bones of this older home which is not always such an simple thing to find in Beverly Hills. This home is listed at $11.495 million.

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The Boomer Creativity Contest has generated many great ideas - I’m motivated just reading them and I wish all of you could win!

There is still time to enter - the contest runs through Tuesday (October 7th).  Just go to my Contest Post and tell me what you would like to create.

Some more inspiration from Brenda Ueland:

“…that creative power is in all of you if you give it just a tiny time; if you believe in it a little bit and watch it come quietly into you; if you do not keep it out by always hurrying and feeling qilty in those times when you should be lazy and happy.  Or if you don’t keep the creative power away by telling yourself that worst of lies–that you haven’t any.”

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Real Estalker:
–Celebrity hairstylist Serge Normant has put his New York penthouse on West 16th Street, shown above, on the market for $4.49 million. The listing is here.
–John McCain’s former home in Phoenix, Arizona will now be sold at auction on October 25. It was our estate of the day back in July.
–Teen actress Vanessa Hudgens has picked up a home in Studio City for $2.75 million. The home has six bedrooms and over 5,000 square feet.
–Rumor has it that Kimora Lee Simmons has purchased herself new house in Beverly Hills.
–Will and Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick and his partner Erik Hyman have sold their Manhattan apartment for $4.1 million.
–The Harvey Mudd estate in Beverly Hills is for sale. It is our estate of the day later today.

From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–Natali Portman has gone to contract to sell her apartment in Richard Meier’s tower at 165 Charles St. The condo last had an asking price of $6.55 million.
–The price of Dunnellen Hall, Leona Helmsley’s Greenwich, Connecticut home, has been lowered by $30 million to a still incredible $95 million. Check out the photos from when it was our estate of the day back in June.
–The listing of the “Astor Suite” at the Plaza for $55 million was pulled after one day and other listings have disappeared without buyers but 26 apartments are still listed.
–The $70 million listing at the Pierre Hotel has been pulled from the Brown Harris Stevens website.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
– Screenwriter, crime novelist and political blogger Roger L. Simon has listed his home in the Hollywood Hills for sale at $2.625 million. The listing is here.
–A Beverly Hills home built in the 1920s for Errol Flynn and now owned by composer Lee Holdridge is listed at $3.2 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–Lehman Brothers Holdings’ former chief financial officer, Erin Callan, is in contract to sell her two-bedroom condominium in New York’s 15 Central Park West which had been listed at $12 million. Callan paid $6.48 million around three years ago.
–Ronald Tutor, chairman and chief executive of building contractor Perini Corp., paid $36.7 million for a huge, not-yet-completed home in the Beverly Park gated community which had been listed at $49 million.
–The widow of Steven T. Florio, the former CEO of Cond

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