![]() Lombard had graded the property and completed the estate’s gardens and other landscaping soon after buying it in 1913. Burns – was elegant and comfortable in every way, starting with the grounds. To get telephone service at Grayhall, Lombard had to build a line down to the five-year-old Beverly Hills Hotel.ĭespite its rustic setting, Lombard’s two-story mansion – designed by architects Sumner P. Coldwater and Benedict Canyons were still ranch land and citrus groves. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were dusty in summer and muddy troughs after heavy winter rains. Most of the several hundred residents of Beverly Hills lived in the flats south of Sunset Boulevard, and for good reason.Īll of the roads near Grayhall – such as Summit Drive and even Benedict Canyon Drive – were still unpaved. He was living in the country, surrounded by chaparral-covered hills and mountains.īy 1916, only a handful of mansions had been built north of Sunset Boulevard, usually within a few blocks of The Beverly Hills Hotel, including Harry and Virginia Robinson’s home on Elden Way – and Burton E. ![]() Lombard – a Boston banker-turned-Los Angeles real estate investor, who later was actress Carole Lombard’s godfather – moved into his newly-completed fifteen-acre Grayhall Estate in 1916. ![]()
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