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Villa Rockledge that was built in 1918 by Frank Miller in Laguna Beach is now on the market. This beautiful estate is restored and fully updated for modern living is priced at $27 million.
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The historic Laguna Beach mansion is also called Mariona in a Mediterranean-style with stucco, stone, red-tile roofs and massive ceiling beams all opening to the vast ocean views.
It is measured at 8,065 square feet of living space with twelve bedrooms, eleven bathrooms, four villas, two attached guest rooms, hidden gardens and vine-covered walls, courtyards, pathways and the serene private cove beach with a tide pool.
Co-listing agents of Villa Rockledge are Azita Sadeghi of Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Laguna Beach and Josh and Matthew Altman of The Altman Brothers in Beverly Hills.
This is the metal plate that marks Villa Rockledge or Mariona as a registered historic place. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is one of the great rooms of the mansion with a tall wooden cathedral ceiling that has exposed wooden beams and a loft on the far side overlooking the living room. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This living room has beautiful wooden walls and ceiling that has large wooden beams to match the wooden dining set beside the living room both over a large patterned area rug. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a closer look at the living room in the great room with a large beige couch paired with a wood-top coffee table under a charming round chandelier. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This gorgeous living room has a large colorful patterned area rug over the hardwood flooring. The rug gives a nice background for the earthy tones of the sofa, arm chair, beige walls amd wooden cathedral ceiling with exposed wooden beams. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This living room has a brown and earthy tone to its sofa that matches well with the wooden ceiling and warmed by a stone fireplace on the corner beside the TV across from the sofa. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
Beside the living room of this great room is a charming and intimate dining area with a beautiful view of the ocean through a wide set of glass windows with a lovely design to its frame to pair with the wooden ceiling. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is a closer look at the simple dining are with a wooden round table surrounded by wooden chairs brightened by the rows of glass windows. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This informal dining area has a round glass-top dining table surrounded by various chairs topped with a small and simple pendant light with a wide open view of the ocean through sliding windows. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This dining room has a more formal vibe to its long wooden dining table that matches with the wooden ceiling that has large exposed wooden beams. This room also has tall sliding wooden windows that open to the ocean view. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This formal dining area has a charming dark wooden dining table adorned with a table runner in the middle with a flower centerpiece. The charming slat-back wooden dining chairs are a perfect match with the dark wooden frames of the sliding windows. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This charming kitchen has its stovetop housed by the kitchen island counter topped with a tall ceiling with an indoor balcony at the next level. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
The kitchen’s bright arched ceiling and beige walls are complemented by the dark wooden cabinetry of the kitchen island and those lining the walls that houses the oven an the sink on the far wall beneath the windows. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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The various wooden casbinetry of the kitchen is adorned with elegant carvings and designs that augments the beauty of the shaker cabinets and drawers. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
The bedroom has a traditional large bed that matches the tone of the large beige patterned area rug that covers most of the dark hardwood flooring to match the dark wooden ceiling with exposed beams. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This other bedroom has a wooden sleigh bed that complements the beige hues of the flooring and walls adorned with various wall-mounted artworks and a row of bright windows that let in an abundance of natural lighting. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This lovely side of the house faces the ocean with a covered balcony bordered with thick wooden railing and posts supporting the wooden ceiling with exposed beams that go well with the earthy walls and stone flooring. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
On the other end of the large balcony is a couple of cushioned woven wicker arm chairs facing the scenic view for a relaxing sight-seeing position. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This gorgeous garden has a stone walkway running in the middle of various flowering shrubs and tall trees leading to a stone arch. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This garden has a bird bath in the middle of the small triangle grassy plot. This leads to an arched entryway back to the interiors of the house. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
The lovely garden filled with shrubs and creeping vines are adorned with decorative stones, tall trees and a bird bath in the middle of the forked stone walkway. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This side of the house has a narrow stone walkway with one side walled by the cliff side and the other by the house exterior complemented by potted plants. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the wonderful and scenic ocean view afforded by the walkway at the side of the house with a foreground of the house structures contrasting the deep blue of the ocean with earthy clay tiles. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
At the side of the house facing the ocean s a walkway bordered with wooden and wrought iron railings leading down to the lower levels. This area has a beautiful background of the ocean in the distance. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This aerial view of the mansion shows the jaw-dropping rock cliff on which it is built on supporting the whole mansion that stands out with its earthy tones and large windows maximizing the ocean views. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
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This aerial view of the house from the vantage of the ocean shows the elevation of the house in proximity to the private beach at the bottom. This view also lets you appreciate the gorgeous exteriors of the house that stands out on its rock cliff. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
This is the beautiful and scenic ocean view of the mansion complemented by rocks and an earthy brown sand beach. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
The beachfront of the property has charming rock cliffs, and formations that augment the beauty of the scenic ocean view. Images courtesy of Toptenrealestatedeals.com.
One of Southern California’s most historic properties, Villa Rockledge, originally known as Mariona, was built in 1918 by Frank Miller, the developer of the Mission Inn in Riverside as a wedding gift to his second wife, Marion, for whom it was originally named. He brought his architect to Laguna Beach when it was first being developed and had him design a home along the order and style of the Mission Inn on a cliff overlooking its own 120-foot private beach and the Pacific.
During its early days, a number of Hollywood stars spent time at the home including Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Errol Flynn and Bette Davis, who met her third husband, William Grant Sherry, there in the mid 1940s.
In 1973, after years of neglect, new owners bought the property and began painstakingly restoring Mariona to its former elegance, later changing the name to Villa Rockledge. In 1984, it was added to the National Registry of Historic Places by the State of California and the U.S. National Park Service.
The home has breathtaking panoramic views from practically every room including some closets and bathrooms. One of the former owners, Roger Jones, is a noted author and historian and has published a number of works about the history of the home and the Laguna Beach area.
With an overall total of 12 bedrooms and 11 baths, the estate is comprised of the main house with five bedrooms, four villas and two attached guest rooms encompassing 8,065 square feet of living space spread over a half acre.
Designed in the Mediterranean style, the buildings have old-world feel through the use of stucco, stone, red-tile roofs and massive ceiling beams all opening to the vast ocean views. Lushly planted hidden gardens and vine-covered walls, courtyards and pathways create a magical invitation to explore the grounds with steps leading down to a private cove beach with a tide pool.
Villa Rockledge, Laguna Beach trophy beach estate, is on the market fully restored with updated technology, priced at $27 million. Co-listing agents are Azita Sadeghi of Douglas Elliman Real Estate in Laguna Beach and Josh and Matthew Altman of The Altman Brothers in Beverly Hills.
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