Harold Lloyd Estate (Greenacres)

A prop bomb took Harold Lloyd's right thumb and index finger in 1919. He wore a prosthetic glove afterward and kept doing his own stunts in it, including hanging off the clock face in Safety Last four years later. He built this in the late 1920s and stayed until he died in 1971: forty-four rooms, a nine-acre golf course, a canoe run. He left it to the public as a film museum. The neighbours objected to the buses; it was auctioned in 1975 and subdivided. The grounds are gated and nothing cast marks them.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Campo de Cahuenga — 5.1 mi
  The treaty that ended the fighting in California was signed on this ground, and the building it was signed in is now under the boulevard.
• Los Encinos State Historic Park — 6.5 mi
  A spring that never stopped running, the village it fed for thousands of years, and the rancho that took the ground away.
• Santa Monica Pier — 6.8 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Chavez Ravine — 11 mi
  Three Mexican American neighborhoods cleared for public housing that was never built, then traded to a ballclub.

More markers nearby

• Portolá Trail Campsite (2) — 3.4 mi
• Serra Springs — 3.5 mi
• Hancock Park-La Brea — 4.4 mi
• Campo de Cahuenga — 5.1 mi