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Movie Houses: Psycho

Posted on June 12, 2023

There are few movies where a single building can create the atmosphere required to set the scene for an entire film.  Some that do: the isolated Timberline Lodge in Oregon (standing in as the Overlook Hotel in 1980’s The Shining); the large Dutch Colonial house at 112 Ocean Avenue (1979’s The Amityville Horror), and the J Paul Getty home used as Gloria Swanson’s decaying renaissance mansion on Sunset Boulevard (1950).   When properly presented and with the right creative team, a building can become the movie’s centerpiece, setting the stage on which the actors perform.  The...

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For Sale / Movie Houses: The Houses of “THE AMITYVILLE HORROR” (1979):  108 Ocean Ave., Amityville, N.Y

Posted on May 29, 2023

Those of you who know me, or at least those who have read any of my posts, you know I loves me a good old creepy house – put that house on the water and normally I’m sold.  But even I have my limits – those limits would be personified by this one.  The Amityville Horror house in Long Island.   Even if you’re not a believer in the occult – this is the home where the very real 23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. who at 3:15 am on November 13, 1974, shot...

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Movie Houses: Following The Draw of The Tuscan Sun

Posted on April 27, 2023

I  might be alone on this one, but it seems that whenever/wherever I travel, I find myself fantasizing about what it would be like to live in these idealic worlds, far from the everyday stresses of home.  Be it lakefront cottage communities near my home, oceanfront Nova Scotian fishing villages, Palm Springs desert view mid century moderns, Palapas in Puerto Vallarta or historical European towns.  (Not so much Florida these days though due to their whack a doodle politics of late – shame though as I used to enjoy Fort...

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Movie Houses: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), Cameron Frye’s House

Posted on April 18, 2023

There are very few people out there who do not recall that pivotal moment in the John Hughes film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off when Ferris’s friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) knocks his father’s cherished Ferrari off its jack sending it crashing through a glass wall and into the ravine below.   The house used as Cameron’s family home in the movie is known as The Rose House and Pavilion, a 5,300 sq. ft home, located at 370 Beech Street in the woods of Highland Park, just north of Chicago.  The house was designed and built...

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Movie Houses: Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Bruce Wayne’s Residence

Posted on April 17, 2023

I need to be very honest in sharing the fact that Super Hero Movies are more my colleague Nick Maylor’s thing than mine. The Superhero movies I have seen I have enjoyed, especially when dark deco styled metropolis sets are involved, or in seeing how historic Wayne Manor is depicted.  My younger self is fascinated by the idea of this scenario, where a historic setting is easily adapted into the ultimate clubhouse in which a man of means can fulfill his ultimate fantasy life with caves, toys, and secret passages....

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Movie Houses: Mid Century Modern Houses in Movies

Posted on April 17, 2023

Mid-Century Modern (MCM) is an architectural design and decorating style based upon clean lines, clear expanses of glass, open sight lines, a blurring of interior and exterior spaces and a complete lack of clutter.  The style was developed and made popular by architects of the time, including Frank Lloyd Wright (Falling Water, Pennsylvania), Philip Johnson (Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut), and I.M. Pei (John Hancock Tower, Chicago) from the mid-1940’s to the mid-1970s.  The style was initially popular in southern US locations (LA, Palm Springs, Miami) but spread to some...

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Movie Houses: John Lautner Architect Modern Houses in Movies

Posted on April 17, 2023

It is hard to write a piece on Mid-Century Architecture without acknowledging the work of Architect John Edward Lautner (16 July 1911 – 24 October 1994), an American architect who studied under Frank Lloyd Wright. Lautner opened his own architectural practice in California in 1938. I include him here as it is a testament to his design talent when you realize just how many of his houses have been featured in major movies. Here I will focus on just 5 of the many of his residential consignments which have been...

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