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Old Posted Jan 20, 2017, 2:19 AM
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I had no idea t2. Seems so silly now.



"Case of the Missing Playhouse"



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"Mrs. Leonard Horwin, wife of former Beverly Hills mayor, stands outside the children's playhouse at Greystone Estate.
Note the roofing design and a birdhouse at the top right, on the roof. Photo dated: May 14, 1965."
-caption from the L.A. Times.

We have visited Greystone Manor several times on NLA (it's the site of a murder-suicide!), but I don't recall seeing this storybook playhouse.

here's some info on the original grounds.


-Does anyone know where on the grounds the playhouse was located?
...and whether or not it was eventually moved to a different location--
I hope it wasn't destroyed.





Here are the ground in 1933.


https://books.google.com/books?id=gw...ed%20of&f=true

Anyone see the playhouse?






Here are a couple construction photographs I believe I posted in the early days of the thread. I thought they'd be interesting to see again.


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Greystone today.


http://www.beverlyhills.org/explorin...itinghoursmap/

hmmm....maybe the playhouse is still there & I just don't know it.
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A Quick Rehash of the Murder.


Doheny murder-suicide post (with numerous missing photographs )
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...postcount=8454

Murder scene

http://www.crimemagazine.com/vintage...gedy-greystone

That's 'Ned' on the floor and his chauffeur (some say his lover) on the floor in the other room.

They were both caught up in the Teapot Dome Scandal.

"Father Doheny then dispatched his son, Edward 'Ned' Doheny, Jr. and Doheny Jr.'s employee and close friend, Hugh Theodore Plunkett, to deliver the bribe.
The two men went to the brokerage house of Blair and Company withdrew one hundred thousand dollars in cash from Ned's account wrapped the money in paper
and put it in a little black bag and took it to Interior Secretary Albert Fall in his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington."


http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=5636

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