Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart’s 1930s-bilt bachelor pad is on the market. But don’t expect it to stay standing.
The star of It’s a Wonderful Life, Harvey and Mr Smith Goes to Washington shared the home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles with fellow actors Burgess Meredith and Johnny Swope for most of the 40s, leaving in 1949, when he married Gloria Hatrick McLean.
According to Curbed LA, the listing details – or lack of them – and price suggest the house is destined for demolition.
It has four bedrooms, four bathrooms, two reception rooms and an attached a two car garage over 429sqm. Unlike properties surrounding it, it doesn’t have a pool. It does have several Rear Windows.
The listing price is US$7.75 million (NZ$11.6m).
While the home could certainly do with some updating – according to the listing, this is the first time it’s come on the market in 60 years – it has tonnes of early Mid-century/Hollywood regency charm, including a panelled sitting room, a built in fireplace surround in American Birch and Birch floors throughout.
In 1998 the home Stewart moved to after Brentwood and shared with Hatrick McClean for 50 years was torn down just a year after the actor died.
The Beverly Hills Journal lamented the home’s destruction at the time, quoting neighbour and singing star Rosemary Clooney: “If only we’d known [it was being pulled down]. We’d have taken a brick or something.”
