A European-styled Craftsman mansion located on a prestigious perch at the top of the Hollywood Hills is considered as America’s largest Craftsman home. Named Artemesia, the home is now on the market priced at $9.995 million.

The house is measured at 13,290 square feet with eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and six Batchelder tile fireplaces. The property consists of three structures including the main house, carriage house, gatehouse, and fireplace pavilion. It also boasts of six terraces, fish pond patio, the kitchen patio, and the carriage house patio.

Artemesia, America’s largest historic Craftsman mansion is listed by Ernie Carswell of Ernie Carswell and Partners.

This is a look at the property from the vantage of the wide driveway that leads to the house. You can see here that the house is surrounded with foliage of tall trees and shrubs. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

This spacious room has various sitting areas surrounding the music area with a large grand piano and a set of bongos. These are complemented by the dark hardwood flooring and the thick pillars. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

The spacious family room has two sets of light beige sofas on a patterned area rug that matches the patterns of the ceiling. These are then complemented by the large fireplace embedded into the wall with a dark wooden tone. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

This living room has a beige sofa set surrounding a wooden coffee table on a beige area rug. These are then topped with a ceiling adorned by stained glass panels. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com. — This living room has a beige sofa set surrounding a cushioned coffee table on a beige area rug. These are then topped with a ceiling adorned by stained glass panels. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

A few steps from the living room is this informal dining area with a round wooden dining table. This angle also shows more of the ceiling that is adorned with panels of stained glass skylights. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

This is a look at one of the terraces with red brick flooring tiles and pairs of cushioned chairs under a wooden cathedral ceiling with exposed beams and pendant lights. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

This is an aerial view of the house showcasing the dark tones of the house complemented by the surrounding landscape of tall trees and shrubs. Image courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.

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Artemesia, a European-styled Craftsman mansion, is accurately touted as “art you can live in.” After painstaking 25-year restoration by its owner, Leonard Fenton, nothing was neglected, nor was any part of the home rerouted from the original design. Located on a prestigious perch at the top of the Hollywood Hills, the mansion overlooks a wide panorama of city, valley, ocean, and hills. Nestled in almost two acres of a secluded forest, the quiet and tranquility belie its location behind its long gated drive with A-list neighbors close by such as Brad and Jolie just a couple houses down the street.

When the home was originally built in 1913 by Frederick Engstrum, it was built with ecological systems that seem “new” and are expensive today. Some of these early 1900’s innovations were a rainwater collection system that supplied the bathroom showers, a greywater system recycled into the garden, and a tankless water heater that fired only when in use. Who knew that this new fangled money-saver was in use over a hundred years ago?

Engstrum installed a new electric intercom and central vacuuming system and then topped everything off with a fabulous Murray Harris organ – the second-largest residential pipe organ existing in the country today. In addition to restoring almost everything that Engstrum did in the original construction, the current owner has discreetly added network wiring and updated mechanical systems.

The Craftsman home has huge public rooms that can accommodate 500 guests and still have plenty of space and cozy private rooms for family. Overall there are three structures on the property including the main house, carriage house, gatehouse, and fireplace pavilion. Also six terraces including the upper terrace, the ballroom terrace, the sleeping porches with their own Murphy beds, the fish pond patio, the kitchen patio, and the carriage house patio.

Indoors are 13,290 square feet with eight bedrooms including two master suites, seven baths, and six Batchelder tile fireplaces. Fenton was so particular about the restoration that he brought in museum restoration artists to replicate the exact paint color and pattern for tile restoration on one of the fireplaces. For more information.

America’s largest historic Craftsman mansion with the second-largest residential pipe organ. Originally listed at $11.995 million in 2012, the property has been relisted for $9.995 million.

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