William Jenkins Residence/"Desmond Mansion" (site) (Los Angeles)

The glorious old Renaissance-style mansion, which stood at 3810 Wilshire Boulevard on the corner of Wilshire and Crenshaw Boulevards and was built for William Jenkins in 1924 at a then-staggering cost of $250,000, was demolished in 1957 to make way for the Getty headquarters, now the glumly nondescript Harbor Building. Because the house did not have a swimming pool (an integral part of the storyline), producers had to construct one.

The mansion, seen also in Rebel Without A Cause, was built in the twenties for a former US Consul in Mexico, who abandoned the building, which stood vacant for over ten years until bought by J Paul Getty.