Villa Rockledge (Laguna Beach, California)

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2529 South Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651

Villa Rockledge is an oceanfront 8,000 square foot residence w/ 12 bedrooms, 11 baths plus four guest villas and private parking for twelve cars. The estate is sited high above 120 feet of private beach.

Built from 1918-23 by Frank A. Miller & designed by Arthur Benton, the famed developers of the Mission Inn in Riverside.

As the movie industry emerged, the growing coastal resort and art colony of Laguna Beach became a getaway playground. An invitation to Villa Rockledge was a highly coveted prize. Hollywood luminaries like Clifton Webb, Robert Mitchum and Errol Flynn basked on its private beach. Bette Davis met her future husband William Grant Sherry on the mystical estate.

The compound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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