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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 900-foot (270 m) canoe run on 15 acres (61,000 m 2). Greenacres has been called "the most impressive movie star's estate ever created."
The Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation (PHLF) Historic Landmark plaque program was begun in 1968 in order to identify architecturally significant structures and significant pieces of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States's local heritage throughout Allegheny County. Nominations are reviewed by the private non-profit foundation's ...
A retrospective Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article claimed that the Price Tower had cost $2.4 million to construct, [90] while contemporary estimates ranged as high as $13 million. [91] [92] The Price family publicly cited the building's cost as $6.5 million, [91] and Harold Sr. wrote in an August 1956 letter that he had spent $2.1 million. [62]
Kennywood is an amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh.The park opened on May 30, 1898, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family's Monongahela Street Railway.
The classic Harold Lloyd comedy “Safety Last” is turning 100 years old this year. But with its heavy dollops of action and a superstar’s real-life derring-do, it doesn’t seem a day over 10 ...
Greenacres, the legendary 1920s Harold Lloyd Estate in Beverly Hills, California (United States) Greenacres, Florida, town in the United States; Greenacres, Washington, a neighborhood in the city of Spokane Valley in the United States; Greenacres, South Australia, town in Australia; Greenacres, neighbourhood of Motherwell, Scotland
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. [1]One of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies, from 1914 to 1947.
Sumner Spaulding (1892–1952) was an American architect and city planner.He is best known for designing the Harold Lloyd Estate, a.k.a. Greenacres, in Beverly Hills, California, the Catalina Casino in Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, California, and the Malaga Cove Plaza in Palos Verdes Estates, California.