Real Estate Beat: Hollywood Hills house that has its own bomb shelter
List Price: $6,300,000
The Property: This 53,000-square foot Hollywood Hills house is not just another luxury home on sale. The palatial private residence, which has been listed for a cool $6.3 million, has once served as a secret military base and as an Air Force film studio. Interestingly, this studio produced a record 20,000 movies between 1947 and 1969. According to Sotheby’s listing agent Brett Lawyer…
The Lookout Mountain Air Force Station on Wonderland Avenue was built in 1941 as the main WWII West Coast air-defense and radar-communications headquarters. It was turned into a research facility for the atom bomb by the military a few years later.
This was the place where nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site also were filmed in various formats. The amazing Wonderland compound has soundstages, screening rooms and film-processing labs.
Physical Address: 8935 Wonderland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Unique Features: Five minutes drive from the famous Sunset Strip, the incredible Warhol Factory Style compound enjoys over 50,000 sq ft of personal space. An electric door leads you to the two-story soundstage, and there are 17 temperature and climate controlled film vaults. Brett Lawyer says that the ten-bedroom luxury house comes complete with its own bomb shelter.
Presently owned by an artist and a judge, the luxury house also has a swimming pool, four art galleries, an underground parking garage for 15 cars and a gated parking lot for another 70.
Contacts: Brett Lawyer, Sotheby’s International Realty
9200 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90069
Phone: 310.888.3808
Fax: 310.888.3809
Via: RealEstateFlat
