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I've always admired this clifftop stone house

This was originally the D. L. James house, by California architects Greene & Greene. It is now owned by Brad Pitt!


The "roots" of the house seem to be growing out jumbled stones


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@Mamapolo2016
I love the house. Frank Lloyd Wright meets Harry Potter. Organic.
Yep, they've definitely got that low pitch roof big overhang prairie style in some of their work.

Are you familiar with Greene & Greene? Architect brothers who merged 'Arts & Crafts' styles from England with Japanese styles and a dash of California adobe and New England shingle styles.

You can see a few of those styles incorporated into this Blacker House stairway

This is called Gamble House

The Duncan-Irwin house
More Greene & Greene deliciousness

Charles Green's own garage, where stone flows into brick


The Mary Cole house, now part of a church. This overhang was originally a porte-cochère.

Van Rossem-Neill house
The first house looks ancient. The last one is gorgeous.
@Spoiledbrat Yep. Built in 1918. I see the reason for confusion though. The first two images show tile roofing; the final one shows metal. I doubt there was metal roofing available in 1918, and I have no idea when it was updated. Metal roofing would weigh a lot less and ease the load on 100 year old timbers, so it's a reasonable choice.
@ElwoodBlues Now that you mention it I see the resemblance between the first 2 pics.
The third a little too. @ElwoodBlues
I drive by it on my way to big sur like ik the front gate on a road trip
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Is it heritage listed?
@Thevy29 I don't think so!

The location is actually "Carmel Highlands" an unincorporated community in Monterey County, 3 mi south of Carmel-by-the-Sea. As an unincorporated community, I think there are fewer governing authorities to make and enforce a heritage listing.

It doesn't seem to appear on this national list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Monterey_County,_California
That's the Pitts?
@Mamapolo2016 Only one Pitt, I think. But a very significant Pitt!
@ElwoodBlues I love the house. Frank Lloyd Wright meets Harry Potter. Organic.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
Absolutely beautiful!
That’s really cool !
SW-User
I like it, but I would hesitate to ever build on a clifftop location ... it seems more often than not, nothing on a cliff (especially a seaside cliff) is permanent ... I'm shocked how close to the edge of seaside cliffs / bluffs people have been allowed to build in places like coastal CA and Sequim WA while erosion of the cliffs has always been ongoing

I walked through a house once on the western side of Whidbey Island WA and the back yard was surrounded by a chain-link fence ... the back edge of the fence was already dangling in parts over gaping holes at the edge of a clay coastal bluff probably close to 100 feet high. I would have nightmares trying to sleep in that place, especially after that 2014 mudslide in Oso WA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Oso_mudslide

And for multiple years now we seem to see houses on coastal CA cliffs falling into the sea during the rainy season.
iamonfire696 · 41-45, F
That’s beautiful
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Yeah, that is awesome.
MethDozer · M
Yeah, that's sick

 
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