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Table of Contents

Intro x Map x History: The Architect x Photographic Estate Walk-Through x History: The Original Owners x Before & After: Furnished vs. Unfurnished x History: 1926 Pacific Coast Architect Feature x Features Fireplaces & Bathrooms List x

Special Features List x Floorplans x

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Introduction

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escribed in 1925 as “A Spanish Palace by the Sea,” Villa Eden Del Mar has long been considered one of the most renowned homes on the Monterey Coast and a treasured landmark in Pebble Beach.

Famed architect, George Washington Smith designed the home in the style of Southern Spain. An aristocratic and sophisticated work of art, Villa Eden Del Mar has a wide range of international origins, traditions and influences.

Along the world-famous 17 Mile Drive, an imposing, sharply scalloped wall protects the private entry to an inviting central courtyard, fountain and gardens. This grand courtyard is framed by classical columns forming rhythmic arcades.

of the Pacific and rugged coastline. This home exhibits meticulous craftsmanship in its custom laid marble tiled floors, carved wooden ceilings and massive stucco walls within which the likes of artists, celebrities, business tycoons and international royalty have been entertained.

This impressive 2.8-acre oceanfront compound includes four distinct structures: the main house, which is a masterpiece to behold, with 15,418 sq ft of living area; an oceanfront Lyceum with 3,651 sq ft; a 2BR/2BA penthouse guest apartment with 1,806 sq ft; and a separate 2BR/1BA caretaker’s cottage with 976 sq ft.

Perhaps above all else, Villa Eden Del Mar boasts its majestic and incomparable setting. This dramatically picturesque The majestic entry to main house leads to the sumptuous location enables the architecture to be strikingly effective living room and unparalleled views of the Pacific and the without pretension. From various rooms and terraces, one vast horizon beyond. The rich interior boasts high, carved sees everywhere titanic, tumbled granite boulders, worn wooden ceilings, an imposing fireplace and a spacious yet and aged by the surf. And out of this coastline grow ageless warm ambiance. With its elegant cut marble flooring and giant Cypress trees glistening in blackish green. The beauty Renaissance feel, the Terrace Room is surrounded by floor- of this setting is magical. to-ceiling windows offering breathtaking 180-degree views

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The Original Architect “Among twentieth century practitioners of Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, one architect, George Washington Smith transcended the rest.” - Harris Allen, A.I.A

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eorge Washington Smith is legendary as the “Father of Spanish Revival Architecture in California.” His name derived from his birth date on February 22, 1876. A brilliant and talented man, he studied architecture at Harvard, made a small fortune in New York, lived and painted in Paris, traveled extensively throughout Europe and finally settled in Santa Barbara. There he became the most renowned architect of early California residences, mostly in Santa Barbara and Montecito. But here in Pebble Beach, Smith designed three of our most famous and renowned landmarks: The Cypress Point Club Lodge; the (Byzantine) Crocker Mansion and Villa Eden Del Mar. While best known and revered for his residential architecture, George Washington Smith also designed in Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara City Hall Plaza; the Daily News Building; the Lobero Theater; the Santa Barbara Chapel and Crematorium; the Montecito Country Club; and the Hope Ranch.

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George Washington Smith, image Wikipedia

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Map

work in progress

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The Original Owners

Maud Bowers Bourn Vincent and her husband Arthur Rose Vincent, image Muckross House Research Library

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Maud Bowers Bourn Vincent and Arthur Rose Vincent

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illiam Bourn, born in San Francisco and classically educated at Cambridge University, was the owner of the famous Empire Mine in Grass Valley, California, reputed to be one of the largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California and it was said to have produced 5.8 million ounces of gold during California’s great gold rush from 1850-1956.

Of the many wealthy families who moved from San Francisco to the Peninsula after the great earthquake in 1906, one of the most prominent was William Bourn and his wife, Agnes. The Bourns enlisted renowned architect, Willis Polk, to design and build a 36,000-square-foot Georgian residence, with 43 rooms and 17 fireplaces on their 700-acre country estate in Woodside on the shore of Crystal Springs Lake. They named it Filoli, which, to the Bourns, FI-LO-LI stood for Fight, Love, Live. To fight for a just cause; to love your fellow man; to live a good life was a credo that Bourn believed in.

Bourn often took his family to Europe and while on an Atlantic crossing in 1906, his daughter and only child, Maud, met Arthur Rose Vincent of Summerhill, Cloonlara in County Clare, Ireland. Arthur was an assistant judge for the British Foreign Office. Maud and Arthur Rose Vincent were married March 30, 1910 at St. Matthew Episcopal Church in San Mateo, a grand event covered worldwide.

As a wedding gift to the newlyweds, Bourn purchased Muckross House and its surrounding 11,000 acres on the Lakes of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. The Bourns were frequent visitors to Muckross and became enamored with the beautiful Irish country setting.

In 1924, as a gift for his daughter, Maud, Bourn had a Spanish Revival style mansion designed by the famous architect, George Washington Smith, and built overlooking the ocean and the crashing waves along the rugged shore in Pebble Beach on the 17-Mile Drive.

“Asilo de L’Estrella” was the original name given to the house and it later became Villa Eden Del Mar, as it remains today. Smith is famous for his work in Santa Barbara and Montecito where he designed several wellknown Spanish Revival style buildings.

On February 12, 1929, following an Atlantic crossing en route to California to visit her father, Maud Vincent died of pneumonia. In 1932, the Bourns and their son-inlaw, Arthur Vincent, presented Muckross House and the surrounding 11,000 acres of land to the Irish Nation as a memorial to Maud Bourn Vincent. The estate became the first national park in Ireland. Visited by thousands of tourists each year, the house and surrounding gardens are known as the Bourn-Vincent Memorial Park and the estate is known as the Killarney National Park.

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Before & After

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he following pages showcase a variety of rooms throughout the estate and their transformation after sending furnishings to auction.

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Fireplaces & Bathrooms List 1/2 Baths - 10 Total

Bathtub stand alone - 3

• cottage • green bathroom off living room • service bathroom off laundry • above den, near office access door • upstairs media room near wet bar • Jack’s study • Lyceum • penthouse • office • outside under house storage room

• Blue bedroom bath • Jack’s bathroom • green room bath

Shower Stall - 3 • ocean view room • flower bedroom • cottage

Bathtub with shower overhead - 2 • Chinese bedroom • peach suite (with jets)

Dedicated shower stall - 4 • Blue bedroom bath • Jack’s bathroom • green room • cottage

Toilets - 18 • cottage 2 • penthouse 2 • office 1 • under house storage room 1 • service bath off laundry 1 • green bath off living room 1 • blue bedroom 1 • Jack’s bathroom 1 • peach suite 1 • Lyceum 1 • Chinese bedroom 1 • media room 1 • ocean view suite 1 • green room 1 • flower room 1 • Jack’s study 1

Total Bathrooms - 18

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Fireplaces - 8 • living room • kitchen eating area • dining room • terrace room off den • office off blue bedroom • blue bedroom • peach suite • ocean view bedroom

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Special Features List All items on this list are included in the sale of the estate.

Some of these items include their value as appraised by Sotheby’s experts. These values are for information purposes only, as all these items are included in the purchase price.

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Floor Plans Lower Level

Gallery 17 X 12

Office

Main Living Area - 11116sf

Laundry

Office

Garage

Upper Level - 3820sf Lower Level - 482sf Bedroom

Closet

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Courtyard

DW

Lounge 14 X 13

Total - 15418sf

38 X 18

Storage

Foyer

DW

Closet

Office - 399sf Main Garage - 322sf

Closet

Kitchen 20 X 15

Elev

Closet

Garden Room 22 X 14

Master Bedroom 24 X 18

Mechanical Room

Closet

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Dining Room

Living Room

27 X 20

Sitting Room

50 X 28

Elev

Terrace

Deck Library

Elev

Terrace Room

Library Lower Level

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Upper Level

Closet

Closet Bedroom

Breezeway

16 X 13

Bedroom 19 X 18 Closet

Bedroom 15 X 11

Closet

Elev

Family Room 29 X 22

Bedroom 21 X 18

Main Living Area - 11116sf Upper Level - 3820sf Lower Level - 482sf Total - 15418sf

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Guest Apartment

Bedroom

Bedroom

Garage

Caretaker's Quarters - 976sf Caretaker Garage - 751sf Closet

Bedroom

Bedroom

Caretaker's Quarters

Closet Living Room

Laundry

Deck

Living Room

Guest Apartment - 1806sf

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Lyceum - 3651sf Equip Stg

Lyceum

Lounge

Lyceum

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