A Billionaire’s Greco-Roman Folly Overlooking San Francisco Bay Heads to Market for $5 Million

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Billionaire Gordon Getty's landmark Temple of Wings in Berkeley hits the market for $5 million with San Francisco views.

‘Suicide Squad’ Director David Ayer’s Los Angeles Home Lists for $2.5 Millionis rife with historic landmarks. Another is an epic Greco-Roman style villa, dubbed the Temple of Wings, long owned by oil tycoon J. Paul Getty’s billionaire fourth son, Gordon Getty. Now coming to market for $5 million, the larger-than-life estate has one hell of a history. Celebrity Chef Charles Phan Relists His Live/Work Loft in San Francisco for $5.5 MillionBuilt in the 1910s for attorney Charles C.

Over the years, the duo completed major renovations of the structure, enclosing it, adding interior stairways, and restoring most of the stone and woodwork throughout. A double stone staircase in the open-air courtyard leads to a grand semicircular pavilion. On the north side are formal living and dining rooms, as well as an entertainment space with an original beamed ceiling displaying frescoes and a fireplace.

Getty, a classical composer as well as a businessman and heir to one of the U.S.’s most illustrious families, remains the owner of a pale yellow mansion along one of the finest blocks in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, where he was recently interviewed and photographed at 90 years old for the Nob Hill Gazette.Demetrius Simms is a digital staff writer at Robb Report.

 

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