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El Cabrillo is a two-story, ten-unit Spanish-style courtyard condominium building located at the southeast corner of Franklin Avenue and Grace Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The Spanish Colonial Revival style building was designed by noted architects Arthur and Nina Zwebell and built in 1928 by movie mogul Cecil B. DeMille. El Cabrillo is the only building designed by the Zwebells using brick, a superior construction material as compared to their other courtyard buildings constructed using stucco and wood. It became one of the most fashionable addresses in Hollywood in the late 1920s and 1930s and was more recently used as the home of the main character in the television series ''Chuck''. It has been designated as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. ==Ties to Hollywood film business== El Cabrillo has a long association with the movie business. In 2007, the ''Hollywood Reporter'' described El Cabrillo as a building "steeped in old Hollywood lore," and in 2004, ''The New York Times'' called El Cabrillo "a two-story complex that has more fabled than factual stories attached to it, the mark of a true Hollywood star." The building was built by Cecil B. DeMille in 1928. David Wallace, the author of ''Lost Hollywood'' (St. Martin's Press, 2001), believes DeMille built El Cabrillo to house New York stage actors whom he brought to Los Angeles when talking pictures arrived.〔 Others claim that DeMille intended it as a gift for his daughter Frances.〔 Whichever version is correct, DeMille was responsible for a building that became one of the most fashionable addresses in Hollywood. The building's notable features include its Spanish-style courtyard and fountain, hand-made tiles, large fireplaces, and high-beamed ceilings. According to ''The New York Times'', DeMille used set craftsmen to construct "the phantasmagorial sense of architectural detail at El Cabrillo, which includes a central outdoor Moorish fountain, timbered ceilings, Catalina tile work, swashbuckling wrought-iron hardware and scaled-down versions of Citizen Kane-like carved concrete fireplaces in each apartment."〔 David Wallace, who once managed the property, said: "It's like walking into a movie."〔 Actress Ann Harding leased one of the front apartments in 1928 for $500 per month—a very high rental rate at the time.〔 Other notable residents have included director Lowell Sherman, Perc Westmore, and writer John Willard.〔 Also, the building's Spanish revival courtyard is alleged to have been used as a set in a Rudolph Valentino movie.〔〔 Located close to DeMille's motion picture studio, El Cabrillo is at the foot of Whitley Heights, where Charles Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino lived in the 1920s. More recently, transvestite actor Divine lived in the complex in the 1960s, as did Kent Warner, a costumer and noted collector of clothing and props from Hollywood films. After Warner died in 1984, the building's owner cleaned out the basement and inadvertently threw out some of Warner's possessions, including James Dean's boots from ''Rebel Without a Cause'' and Marlon Brando's leather jacket from ''The Wild One''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「El Cabrillo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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