C.E. Toberman Estate
- Style
- Spanish Colonial Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
The C.E. Toberman Estate, also called Villa Las Colinas, is the private mansion Charles E. Toberman built for himself between 1922 and 1924 on a 2-acre lot in Hollywood. Toberman was the developer known as the 'Father of Hollywood,' and the 19-room, 9,800-square-foot house was his own dream home, backed by a separate natatorium, tennis courts, and a nine-hole pitch-and-putt course.
the building
The natatorium. A separate building on the grounds holds a 30-by-50-foot tiled swimming pool under skylights, ringed by cabanas -- one of several recreational structures that made the estate, in Toberman's own words from a 1981 interview, 'practically a country club.'
Interior details. The 19-room main house has eight fireplaces, a butler's pantry, and cut-crystal doorknobs, alongside a separate 1,809-square-foot guest apartment and garage.
the style
Toberman hired architects Russell & Alpaugh to design the house in a blend of Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival forms -- the same styles that came to define 1920s Hollywood residential building, which Toberman, as its principal developer, did more than almost anyone to spread.
More on Spanish Colonial Revivalsignificance
The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #285 in 1984.
nearby
- Petersen Building
- Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
- Hollywood Masonic Temple
- El Capitan Theatre
- Freeman House
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