Talk:Chartwell Mansion

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More development about this very significant topic is needed, especially given its recent actual or pending sale at highest price ever for a California house. User:DocWatson42, User:Cbl62, you are two editors i recall/noticed developed the comparable Spelling Mansion article in the past, could you possibly take a look at this one too? --Doncram (talk) 18:05, 12 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Doncram: While I did some work on the article on The Manor, it was to my recollection more in the way of cleanup than development/expansion, which is not my specialty. :-/ —DocWatson42 (talk) 08:19, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Source Information

If no one takes the handoff, I will assist in incorporating the following information into the article upon return from scheduled travel:

Pacific Coast Architecture Database (PCAD) Entry "Atkinson, Lynn S., Jr., and Bernice Stephens, House, Bel-Air, Los Angeles, CA"

http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/6262/ Excellent primary source information.

MeTV "'The Beverly Hillbillies' mansion featured a 150-foot waterfall and an underground elevator" https://www.metv.com/stories/the-beverly-hillbillies-mansion-featured-a-150-foot-waterfall-and-underground-elevator

Contains info: "Kirkeby rented out his home to The Beverly Hillbillies production for $500 per day. The house had previously been used in Jerry Lewis' Cinderfella. Years after the Clampetts went off the air, the rotund rappers the Fat Boys turned up in the mansion in their comedy Disorderlies. It can also be seen in Sylvester Stallone's arm wrestling epic, Over the Top."

LA Times "Fighting Child Abuse ‘Inside the Gates’ of Bel-Air Estate" https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-29-vw-19785-story.html

Includes primary source information: "... Said Carla Kirkeby, “My father and Mr. Atkinson were friends. My father made a loan to Mr. Atkinson to finance the house, and he couldn’t pay it back, so my father took back the house. Also, his wife was too ill to move in. He loved the house; it was his dream house, and it’s sort of a sad story.” She says Atkinson eventually “committed suicide by jumping off the top of Park La Brea Towers.” Now, she adds, “It’s time to sell. I will miss it. We loved this house.”

"The Kirkebys (he died in the La Guardia air crash in the 1960s; she died six months ago) are the only family ever to live in the house. Carla’s son, Bret Duffy, a senior at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will have his 21st birthday party there Saturday. About 200 of his friends will converge in the ballroom for a final blast. “He wants it black-tie,” said his mother."

Curbed Los Angeles "Beverly Hillbillies House Builder's Strange Smog Suicide" https://la.curbed.com/2011/11/2/10428394/the-strange-smog-suicide-of-the-beverly-hillbillies-house-builder

Includes information: "Lynn Atkinson was an engineer and public works contractor who retired in his thirties and built Bel Air's most expensive Depression-era house, at 750 Bel Air Rd. It had a ballroom with an orchestra stage, a pipe organ, six bedroom suites, a 150 foot manmade waterfall, a landing pad for autogyros, gold-plated doorknobs and hinges, and an elevator that ran seventy-five feet below the house to tunnels leading to the pool and landing pad. But he never moved in and his family only ever used the house for parties." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.33.126.24 (talk) 19:58, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

More info possible?

I've seen documentaries on the mansion that claim it was demolished, and the mansion now there isn't the original one. Was the interior of the mansion used in "The Beverly Hillbillies"? Also something about the man who built it died just before "The Beverly Hillbillies" used it, and his wife allowed the show to use it for the money the show paid to maintain the mansion. 98.164.81.209 (talk) 17:39, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]