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Old Money
Date | Owner | Name | Place | Size | Notes | |
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1902 | Hellman-Ehrman Mansion | Pine Lodge | Sugar Pine Point | 11,703 sf | ||
1914 | R. Stanley Dollar | Wychwood | Carnelian Bay | Purchased from Lora Knight in 1927 | ||
1920's* | Tasker Oddie | Summertide | Crystal Bay | * purchased by Howard Hughes in 1950 | ||
1929 | Lora Knight | Vikingsholm | Emerald Bay | |||
1938 | Henry J. Kaiser | Fleur Du Lac | Homewood | The original Estate consisted of 17 large homes, small cottages, servants' quarters, a yacht club and boat house. The Estate was created as an exclusive hideaway for Kaiser and the heads of the other five companies who joined forces to build the Hoover Dam project. See Fleur du Lac History. | Listed for $19.5M in 2015
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1930's | George Whittell | Thunderbird Lodge | Incline Village | |||
Baldwin Beach & Tallac Historic Site (Baldwin, Pope & Heller Estates) | ||||||
1899 | Lucky Baldwin | Tallac Hotel | South Lake Tahoe | Listed at $20 M in 1913. It burned in 1914 His daughter Anita Baldwin built her estate there in the 1920's |
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1924 | George Pope | Vatican Lodge | South Lake Tahoe | |||
1924 | Walter S. Heller | Valhalla | South Lake Tahoe | |||
New Money | ||||||
Zephyr Cove Where Big Money Comes to Play - WSJ |
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1963 | William F. Harrah | Villa Harrah | Zephyr Cove | 20,000 sf | Casino owner - On the market by 2nd owner for $25.7 M in 2019 | |
1984 | Larry and Camille Ruvo | Shakespeare Ranch | Glenbrook | 133 acres/td> | Los Vegas wholesale liquor and wine business, Co-founder Keep Memory Alive | |
1993 | Steve Wynn | Old Forge | Incline Village | 12,661 sf | Casino owner - Sold in 1998 2 | |
1993 | Michale Milken | Incline Village | Junk bond dealer and philanthropist | |||
1994 | Stuart Yount | Crystal Point | Crystal Bay | 16,232 | CEO of Fortifiber For sale for $75M in 2017 |
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2004 | George Schmitt | Sierra Sunset | Zepher Cove | 16,703 sf | Tellecoomunications Executive 31 acres, 15 heated stall barn. On the market in 2016 for $59M |
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Doug Clifford | Incline Village | Creedence Clearwater Revival - Sold in 1996 | ||||
Larry Ellison | Glenbrook | 9,242 sf | Oracle CEO - Listed for sale $28.5M | |||
2018 | Larry Ellison | Incline Village | 4 homes 18,000 sf | $58M construction cost | ||
2019 | Mark Zuckerberg | Carousel, Brushwood | Timberland/Sunnyside | 9 acres | Total of $59 M for both estates. |
Others:
McKinney Lodge 4250 West Lake Blvd., Homewood 2021 $31,000
Built on the historic Topol Estate (YouTube)
next to Fleur de Lac.
New 6 beds, 7 baths, 8,106 sq. ft., tennis court, swimming pool
Zillow
2500 W. Lake Boulevard - $44,000,000 estate near Sunnyside - 3.3 acres, 12,225 sf
YouTube
The Nation's Most Avid Trophy-Home Buyer? - Larry Ellison |
Larry Ellison Lists Lake Tahoe Mansion For $28.5M - Curbed
Mark Zuckerberg 'secretly' purchased a Tahoe estate for $59 million, report says - SFGate
Listed for Sale: Doug Clifford, drummer for Creedence Clearwater Revival, who had a home in Incline Village, quotes the local joke: "The billionaires are forcing the millionaires out." 2016 Hughes estate, Crystal Bay $19M Larry Elllison, Glenbrook $28M Ellison has built 4 homes on property in Incline Village Steve Winn's old place, Incline Village $45M Crystal Point $75M Villa Harrah $25MA 2011 WSJ article "The Nation's Most Avid Trophy-Home Buyer? - Larry Ellison" says, "Records show Mr. Ellison has spent $102 million in the last several years buying property, both on and off the market, to assemble three different parcels.
In a 2019 WSJ article
Other famous people current and former residents:
Entertainers: Charles Bronson, Cher, Natalie Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minelli, Wayne Newton and the Captain and Tennile.
Business: Del Yocam [Apple] (Tahoma), Ray Dolby [Dolby noise reduction] (Tahoma), George Schmitt [Telecommunications] (Zephyr Cove), Bill Hewlett [HP] (West Shore) Charles McClatchy [Publishing] (West Shore).
Joel Horowitz, co-founder of the Tommy Hilfiger fashion empire sold for $48 M.
Football players Robert Gallery, offensive lineman for the Raiders and Joe Staley offensive lineman for the 49ers have places near Homewood.
Sheryl Sandberg, former Google exec and former COO of Facebook, has an estate on the Southeast shore.
Movies:
Indian Love Call, starring Jeanette McDonald, was the first movie to be filmed at Lake Tahoe in the 1920's
The Godfather Part 2, starring Al Pacino
The Bodyguard, filmed at Fallen Leaf Lake, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston.
Tahoe in the movies: In Oscar fashion, learn about films that feature the basin | TahoeDailyTribune.com
Resorts and Hotels:
Tahoe Tavern - Tahoe City
Grand Central Hotel - Tahoe City
Links:
Sunnyside-Homewood-Tahoma Real Estate
Lake Tahoe Breaks Records With New Mansion Listings Including A $75 Million Estate, 2017
Lake Tahoe home for sale for $47 M at Zephyr Cove part of Bonanza history | The Sacramento Bee
HISTORICAL SITES, MUSEUMS and TOURS - Go Tahoe North
The historic mansions of Lake Tahoe | Travel | stltoday.com
Tahoe Country Old Time Tahoe featuring history of the Lake Tahoe region
Celebrity and Famous Homes Near Lake Tahoe | Celebrity Home Pictures | HGTV
For $19.5M, Own Howard Hughes' Former Lake Tahoe Estate - Curbed
Tallac Historic Site (Valhalla, Baldwin, Pope)
Megawealthy Buyers Home In On Mountain Town in Nevada - WSJ
Homewood Real Estate - Homewood CA Homes For Sale | Zillow