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The Harold Lloyd Estate, also known as ''Greenacres'', is a large mansion and landscaped estate located in the Benedict Canyon section of Beverly Hills, California. Built in the late 1920s by silent film star Harold Lloyd, it remained Lloyd's home until his death in 1971. The estate originally consisted of a 44-room mansion, golf course, outbuildings, and canoe run on . ''Greenacres'' has been called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created."〔http://www.rodeorealty.com/landmark_estate.php〕 After Lloyd died, the acreage in the lower part of the estate along Benedict canyon was subdivided into approximately 14 large home lots, though the mansion remained up on top of its own hilltop with approximately 5 original acres of flat land and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. ==Architecture and construction== In 1923, Lloyd purchased a historic home site from P.E. Benedict at the mouth of Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills, California. The land had been owned by the Benedict family for more than sixty years and was close to the spot where Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks had built their famed Pickfair estate.〔 In 1925, Lloyd hired architect Sumner Spaulding of the firm Webber, Staunton & Spaulding, after an introduction by landscape architect A.E. Hanson, to design a house on the property. Lloyd also hired Hanson to landscape the grounds. The final plans for the house were not completed until July 1927, at which time the ''Los Angeles Times'' published the architectural drawing. The home was designed in the Italian Renaissance Mediterranean Revival style: modeled after the Villa Palmieri near Florence. Construction of the mansion began in July 1927 and was completed in 1928.〔 The 44-room, house and estate was said to have cost $2 million.〔 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「Harold Lloyd Estate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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