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Clint Eastwood's House
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The actor, director and former Mayor (of Carmel-by-the-Sea), lives here part-time. Known for his iconic portrayal of stone cold killers, commonly featured in westerns, Eastwood has starred in some of the most iconic films of his era. A Fistfull of Dollars, Man with No Name, and The Good the Bad and the Ugly, all were starred in by Eastwood. He also played the Harry Calihan, in Dirty Harry, another great genre defining film. His homes in the Los Angeles (CA) area and Idaho are both featured on this site.
Clint Eastwood is sixty-three now, with more than thirty movies behind him. Eastwood was known in his day for his tumultuous personal relationships. He proposed to and married Maggie Johnson in 1953, but he had an affair that allegedly resulted in a child. He would go on to have affairs while married to Johnson, including a 14-year-long relationship with actress and stunt woman Roxanne Tunis that resulted in a daughter, Kimber, in 1964. Johnson reportedly ‘tolerated’ the open marriage with Eastwood, and they had two children. Johnson and Eastwood ultimately divorced. In 1975, actress Sondra Locke began living with Eastwood. She was devastated to hear that Eastwood continued to have sexual relationships with other women. During that time, Eastwood had two children with Jacelyn Reeves, a flight attendant. In the 1990s, Clint had a relationship with actress Frances Fisher and another daughter. Eastwood was married for the second time to news anchor Dina Ruiz in 1996, who gave birth to their daughter that same year. Ruiz and Eastwood's marriage lasted until 2013. He has been seen with other women since then.
The farmhouse, which has six guest rooms, was built in the 1850s by one of the first pioneer families of the Monterey peninsula; the house was raised and converted into a two-story residence in 1895. Set above a stretch of lush wetlands where the Carmel River flows into the Pacific at Point Lobos, the Mission Ranch property, with its great views of the sea it is one of the most scenic spots on the scenic northern California coast.Eastwood would eventually become mayor of the town, in order to protect the resident’s from a city council that had ignored their needs.
The actor and director has enjoyed a wildly successful career, since earning a net worth of $375 Million.

Betty White's House (Deceased)
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Betty White, born January 17, 1922, was an actress, comedian, director, and American icon until she passed away on December 31, 2021. She was just weeks shy of turning 100, and was already celebrating her upcoming birthday in magazines, on television shows, and online when she passed away peacefully in her sleep.
Her passing was sad for many, as she was one of entertainment’s most beloved figures; even rating as one of the most trusted and reliable people in the United States.
Betty Marion White Ludden was involved in show business back when radio was the primary forum for entertainment, and made the transition to television when it was a new concept. She was in the business for more than seventy years, as an actress, director, producer, and comedian. She was a pioneer in the field in many ways, including having a Black actor appear on television, in spite of protests from some viewers.
As she aged, Betty evolved and found new audiences who adored her work and enjoyed her personality. While she never had children of her own, Betty was a devoted stepmother to the children of her third and final husband, Allen Ludden.
Betty and Allen met when she appeared as a celebrity guest on his game show, and were married in 1963. The two were very happy together, and even built a dream home in Carmel, California. However, he became ill with stomach cancer, and passed away just days after their home was completed. Even so, she loved the home and stayed there until she had to move for personal health reasons. The home has an estimated value around $2 million.
While she was very private, she did once allow cameras into her home to spoof the MTV show Cribs. She showed off her fish tank, bedrooms, and fridge full of hot dogs, demonstrating once again her ability to make audiences laugh.
Over her long and cherished career, Betty established a fortune of around $75 million! Betty White earned many awards in her career, including a Guinness Record for Longest Career in Entertainment. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, five Primetime Emmys, two Daytime Emmys, and more. She was often recognized for her work supporting animal rights, LGBT rights, and equal rights.
After she had to move from her beloved Carmel home, she lived out her days in a home in Los Angeles, which is featured on this site.
Her Carmel home was listed in March 2022 for $8 Million and was sold a month later for $10.775 Million, $3 Million more than it's asking price.

Doris Day's House (Deceased)
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Doris Day was an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist, who lived in this house before passing. Day was ranked the biggest box-office star for four years (1960; 1962–1964) and ranked in the top 10 for 10 years (1951–1952; 1959–1966). She became the top-ranking female box-office star of all time and is currently ranked sixth among the top 10 box-office performers (male and female), as of 2012. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.
Day's film career began during the latter part of the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film Romance on the High Seas, leading to a 20-year career and wildly successful career as a motion picture actress. She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in Calamity Jane and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling and The Thrill of It All. During her career Day starred alongside Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in her own sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).
Doris Day was an American actress, singer, real estate mogul and animal rights activist who had a net worth of $200 million dollars at the time of her death in 2019. She appeared in 39 feature films and is the top ranked female box-office star of all time and is sixth among male and females. She has released 31 albums and was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1971 she became involved with animal welfare and co-founded "Actors and Others for Animals". She later started the Doris Day Animal Foundation and the Doris Day Animal League. She was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in 2004.
She was married four times and had one son, the late music executive Terry Melcher. Doris Day died on May 13, 2019 at the age of 97. She spent the majority of her final years living in Carmel, California on a seven-acre estate that also served as an animal rescue.
The estate was put on the market in September 2020 for $7.4 Million.

Clint Eastwood's Mission Ranch Resort
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Mission Ranch is a historic hotel and restaurant in Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County, California, United States. It is located south of downtown Carmel, near the Carmel Mission, at 26270 Dolores Street. The property was bought in 1986 by legendary Hollywood actor and movie director Clint Eastwood, who restored the premises in the style of the original buildings. The Mission Ranch includes 22-acre (0.089 km2) with views of Point Lobos, Carmel River Beach and the Pacific Ocean. The Hotel has 31 rooms located within ten buildings on the property.

Seaward - Brad Pitt's House
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The actor and film producer, Brad Pitt, paid $40 Million for author DL James' former home, called Seaward. Known as the D.L. James House, the property was designed by 20th century architect Charles Sumner Greene in 1918. He designed the property on a piece of land owned by infamous author Daniel Lewis James, who wrote ‘Famous All Over Town’, naming the property on the Carmel highlands after him. It has been owned by Searock since 1999, a limited liability company tied to the late Chicago financier Joe Ritchie and his wife, Sharon Ritchie. Joe Ritchie died in 2022, and the property was never publicly listed for sale. The luxury property, which is just meters from the beach, boasts a ‘wooden aesthetic’ and is built from locally quarried sandstone and granite. It has arched windows, with bricks ‘individually chosen’ by Charles Greene, and a tiled Mediterranean-style roof.

Sir Michael Kadoorie's House
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The billionaire real estate tycoon from Hong Kong owns this 19k sq ft house.
He is worth approximately $9B as of 2013. His father was Sir Lawrence Kadoorie. He is a rare auto collector.

Doris Day's "Cypress Inn"
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The actress is co-owner of the "Cypress Inn" hotel in Carmel-by-the-Sea.

Gene Hackman's House (Former)
Gene Hackman is a retired American actor and novelist.
Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde. His major subsequent films include The French Connection (1971), in which he played Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle; The Poseidon Adventure (1972); The Conversation (1974); Superman (1978), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor; Hoosiers (1986); Mississippi Burning (1987); Unforgiven (1992); The Firm (1993); Crimson Tide (1995); Get Shorty (1995); The Birdcage (1996); Enemy of the State (1998); and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).
The home is currently owned by Carl Panattoni, CEO of Panattoni Development Company. Panattoni recently listed his oceanfront home for sale for $79,000,000.

Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo
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Mission San Carlos Borroméo del río Carmelo, also known as the Carmel Mission, is a Roman Catholic mission church in Carmel, California. It is on the National Register of Historic Places and a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
It was the headquarters of the original upper Las Californias Province missions headed by Father Junípero Serra from 1770 until his death in 1784.

Celeste & Perry's House in 'Big Little Lies'
Played by Nicole Kidman and Alexander Skarsgard, this is the filming location of Celeste and Perry's house in HBO's Big Little Lies.

Basic Instinct's Cliffside Mansion
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Reggie Jackon's House
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The former professional baseball player, who played for 5 different teams from 1967 to 1987, lives here. He won 3 consecutive World Series titles as a member of the Oakland A's in the early 1970's, and also won 2 consecutive titles with the New York Yankees. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1993.

Claude Keyzers' House
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Born and reared in Southern California, B.A. degree from UCLA, served in U.S. Army and California National Guard. Married with three children and four grandchildren. Monterey County property owner since 1985 and a resident here since 1995. Now retired. Career in commercial real estate development, leasing, and management with two major Orange County land owners. Founding partner in the Macerich Company, an $8B (2012) owner /developer/operator of malls in the U.S. Among civic activities: director of UCLA Alumni Association, California Business Properties Association, Monterey County Fair Board, Monterey County Grand Jury , chairman of the planning commission and city councilman of the city of Placentia in Orange County, treasurer and director of Carmel Heritage Association.

Walker Residence by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Airplane over Carmel
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'Jackson House' by Marcel Sedletzky
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1962

Farid Assemi's House (formerly John Call's)
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Farid Assemi started 40 years ago in the homebuilding business.
He had started building homes with his father in their native Iran, and when Assemi immigrated to the U.S. in 1977, he— with the backing of his family — got a bank loan to start a home-building business, with the first one built in 1987 in Madera.
Initially, success was elusive, as the recession of the early 1980s hurt the demand for new homes.
Current estimates are that Granville will build about 200 homes by the end of this year.
He is also involved heavily in commercial real estate. He owns a Gulfstream 4 private jet (N41ZA). He lives in Fresno.
The home is on the market for $3,195,000 in 2019 and is 1750 sq. ft.
The home was formerly owned by the CEO of Ross Stores, a company with a $38.48B market cap in 2019. He lives in Danville, Ca.

Tor House
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In 1914, when they first saw the unspoiled beauty of the Carmel-Big Sur coast south of California's Monterey Peninsula, Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) and his wife, Una (1884-1950), knew they had found their "inevitable place." Over the next decade, on a windswept, barren promontory, using granite boulders gathered from the rocky shore of Carmel Bay, Jeffers built Tor House and Hawk Tower as a home and refuge for himself and his family. It was in Tor House that Jeffers wrote all of his major poetical works: the long narratives of "this coast crying out for tragedy," the shorter meditative lyrics and dramas on classical themes, culminating in 1947 with the critically acclaimed adaptation of Medea for the Broadway stage, with Dame Judith Anderson in the title role.

Kim Novak's House (Former)
is an American retired film and television actress, widely known for her performance as Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Vertigo (1958) with James Stewart.

Keira Knightley
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Keira Christina Knightley (born 26 March 1985) is an English actress and model.

Melvin J. Kaplan's House
Melvin J. Kaplan is Chief Executive Officer of Wellington Financial Group, which invests in commercial real estate nationally. In 1987 Mel and his wife founded The Harry Singer Foundation, a nonprofit educational operating foundation dedicated to youth development. He serves on its Board of Directors and advises various other 501(c)(3) foundations. Mel also serves on the Board of Aspire Public Schools, a public charter school organization that currently serves a total close to 12,000 students in grades K-12 at 34 locations in California. Born and raised in Boston, Mel is an alumnus of MIT and the University of California-Berkeley where he lectured at the School of Business Administration. His specialty continues to be problem-solving and entrepreneurship. With his wife of fifty-one years, he successfully raised five philanthropic and entrepreneurial sons. His biography has appeared in Marquis’ Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in the World.
This house is on sale in 2012 for $18,500,000

Alan Silvestri's House
Alan Silvestri is a television and film conductor and composer who has worked on Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Cast Away, and Forrest Gump, as well as the superhero films Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and Avengers: Infinity War. His other film scores include The Delta Force, Predator and its sequel Predator 2, The Abyss, Stuart Little, The Mummy Returns, Lilo & Stitch, Night at the Museum and Ready Player One.

Tim Fischell's House
Tim Fischell is an interventional cardiologist and inventor. He has patented over 70 medical devices. Fischell co-founded Ablative Solutions, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer.

Will Forte's House
The actor, comedian, writer and producer purchased this home for $6.25M.

'Davey House' by Richard Neutra
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1940
New information came to light and located the correct house buried inside several renovations. The flat-roofed structure in the middle is Neutra's Davey House.
Thanks George Smart from NCModernist.

Thomas Andruskevich's House
Thoams Andruskevich is an Executive Partner at Comvest Partners. He serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TAA Consulting, LLC and an Operating Partner for Jewelry and Timepieces at Marvin Traub Associates.

Surfers
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Source of the Carmel River
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'Otter Cove Residence' by Sagan Piechota
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Loring Sagan
Daniel Piechota

Ferrari California in California
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Aurelio Fernandez's House
Aurelio Fernandez is a former executive with Broadcom Corp.
Fernandez also owns homes on Key Biscayne and in Vero Beach, FL.

Father Junipero Serra
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Junípero Serra, O.F.M., (/dʒuːnɨˈpɛroʊ ˈsɛrə/; Spanish: [xuˈnipeɾo ˈsera]), known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue, (Catalan: [ʒuˈnipər ˈsɛrə]) (November 24, 1713 – August 28, 1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain—present day California, United States. Fr. Serra was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 25, 1988.
Serra was born Miquel Joseph Serra in Petra, Majorca, Spain. On November 14, 1730, he entered the Alcantarine Franciscans, a reform movement in the Order, and took the name "Junipero" in honor of Saint Juniper, who had also been a Franciscan and a companion of Saint Francis. For his proficiency in studies he was appointed lector of philosophy before his ordination to the Catholic priesthood. Later he received a doctorate in theology from the Lullian University in Palma de Mallorca, where he also occupied the Duns Scotus chair of philosophy until he joined the missionary College of San Fernando de Mexico in 1749.

Flag of Carmel
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Fountain
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Point Lobos
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Patriotic garage door
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Chevrolet Corvette C5
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In the same picture is a Mercedes-Benz 420 SEL.

'Butterfly House' by Frank Wynkoop
1951
Sold in 2013 for $19.2M USD after sensitive 2008-10 renovation by Wynkoop's son, Thor.