John Lennon and Yoko Ono paid $725,000 for this Ocean Boulevard Palm Beach home in 1980, shortly before Lennon’s death. After Lennon was murdered, Ono renovated the property and sold it for $3.15 Million in 1986.
The home, known as El Solano, dates to the 1920s, and was designed by the resort architect Addison Mizner.
The Mediterranean mansion measures 14,000 square feet, with 7 bedrooms and 9.5 baths. It has 2 pools, a tennis court, and 180 feet of ocean frontage. It was purchased in 2016 by John and Cindy Sites for $23.5 million. They put it on the market for $47.5 Million in May 2020 and sold it for $36.1 Million in October 2020.
Homes - Celebrity - Entertainment - Musicians, Homes - Celebrity - Former
Links: en.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org, www.architecturaldigest.com, www.businessinsider.com, www.mansionglobal.com, www.mansionglobal.com, therealdeal.com, therealdeal.com, www.priceypads.com, robbreport.com, www.dailymail.co.uk, www.foxbusiness.com, okmagazine.com, www.realtor.com, www.thevintagenews.com, news.yahoo.com, cosmicmagazine.com.au, profilemiamire.com, www.palmbeachdailynews.com, www.amlu.com, ultimateclassicrock.com
By: BermudaBreeze
){kind=small}
The unusual link between the neighboring houses is rooted in an unneighborly dispute between Kay and Harold Vanderbilt, who bought the house at 720 S. Ocean Blvd. from Mizner in 1921, Roberts said.
Around 1930, Vanderbilt built an addition on the north side of his home, and right up to his property line with Kay, who was not pleased to lose her privacy, Roberts said.
Six years later, Vanderbilt sought to resolve the feud by selling the addition, along with 50 feet of land, to Kay. The rest of the house he sold to someone else.
Rather than demolish the addition, Kay converted it into a guest house and built the bridge connecting it to the house at 710 S. Ocean Blvd.
"The houses have been connected since she did that in 1936, but they've never been in common ownership," said Roberts, who has researched all of the property deeds.
"There was not any zoning, and things were done that could never be done today," he added.