If it gets its $100 million asking price, an iconic ten-bedroom mansion at the top of Little Nell Ski Run on Aspen Mountain will set the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the coveted locality Now best known as an elite ski destination, the town of Aspen has a rich and colorful history. Founded as a mining camp during the Colorado Silver Boom of the 1880s, it was reborn as a resort town in the 1950s. Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson was a longtime resident, though his bid to become sheriff under the “Freak Power” banner was unsuccessful. John Denver wrote two songs ..read more

Listing agent is Marlena Maidhof at ACME Real Estate  |  Photography by Neue Focus If these walls could talk! A 1930’s townhome built for Warner Bros to house their young starlets including Greta Garbo, Marlene Deitrich and Marilyn Monroe is for sale at $899,000.   In Old Hollywood, the movie studios kept a close eye on their young talent and often put them up in homes and apartments that the studios owned and supervised. In their star system, the studios controlled much of their actors’ lives, even where they could live. In one of the most famous cases, Joe Schenck, th ..read more

The listing is held by Crosby Doe of Crosby Doe Associates | Photos courtesy Crosby Doe America’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, designed over 1,000 structures and pioneered the Prairie School of architecture. Marked by flat roofs with overhanging eaves, windows grouped in bands and horizontal lines meant to evoke the vast, flat expanses of America’s native prairie landscape, Wright believed in designing in harmony with nature – a philosophy he called organic architecture. The Prairie style was Wright’s attempt to create a uniquely American design. It was most popula ..read more

Listing agents: Daria Greenbaum, Steve Sawaii of Compass | Ernie Carswell of Douglas Eliman Photos by Virtually Here The Castle, one of L.A.’s most historic homes, has gone on the market at $9.888 million. Built in the 1920s with almost two acres of gardens and views from downtown to the ocean, the home, known locally as “The Castle,” was designed by architect A.F. Leicht. A long list of celebrity owners includes Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, actor John Philip Law, John Getty from the J. Paul Getty oil fortune, and tenants such as Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground ..read more