Two Decades After His Death, Actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr.’s Park Avenue Apartment Finally Surfaces on the Market, the ranch-style residence that once sat on this desirable ocean-view property was last sold for $910,000 in 1994 and subsequently underwent an extensive top-to-bottom makeover by its current owners in collaboration with architect. Now the swoon-worthy abode in its stead has popped up for sale for the first time in almost 30 years, this time asking $9.6 million.
Described as a “refuge by the sea,” the wood-shingled beauty rests behind walls and gates, on a prime corner lot spanning nearly a quarter-acre, and offers five bedrooms and four baths in just over 4,000 square feet of two-level living space adorned throughout with rustic hardwood floors and high wood-beam ceilings. Vast expanses of glass also provide unobstructed ocean vistas from its bluff-top locale.
An eye-catching front door opens into a foyer displaying a staircase modeled after the one legendary architects Charles and Henry Greene designed for Pasadena’s Gamble House.Capturing attention at the outset is a spacious entry foyer, which is spotlighted by an updated, code-compliant interpretation of the classic staircase found in Charles and Henry Greene’s historicin Pasadena.