Garbutt House is a 20-room mansion in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles built from 1926 to 1928 as the residence of Frank A. Garbutt. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

GARBUTT, Frank Alderman (1869-1947) [#SS 546-22-5837], Illinois-born entrepreneur, short-story-writer, race-car driver and athlete, who engaged in the printing, oil, real estate, building and movie businesses.

Dec 20, 2013 · Frank A. Garbutt was a boxer, automobilist, duck hunter, pioneer yachtsman and aviator; he was a man whose code of honor eventually turned him into a concrete man, unable to bend with the changing times.

Oct 23, 2023 · Early Hollywood tycoon Frank Garbutt made an unusual choice in constructing his home out of concrete.

Jan 24, 2025 · Perhaps the most striking is the gargantuan Garbutt House, a hulking citadel built in the 1920s by and for wealthy capitalist, Frank Garbutt. Located as it is within a gated community, most Silver Lakers have never been granted access to it.

Perhaps the most striking is the gargantuan Garbutt House, a hulking citadel built in the 1920s by and for wealthy capitalist, Frank Garbutt. Located as it is within a gated community, most Silver Lakers have never been granted access to it.

Jul 8, 1996 · Frank A. Garbutt’s building projects still have high profile, but none is higher, literally, than his house on a Silver Lake hilltop, visible from miles away. Like a citadel, it was intended to...

It was built by Frank A. Garbutt, a movie pioneer, inventor, industrialist, and “one of the most prominent citizens of Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th Century” according to the Los Angeles Times. In 1923, Garbutt acquired the 37-acre hilltop site overlooking the Silver Lake Reservoir with views of the Pacific Ocean, the Santa ...

Garbutt House is a 20-room mansion in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles built from 1926 to 1928 as the residence of Frank A. Garbutt. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Here's a quick history via The Eastsider: But decades before Charney moved, the nearly 12,000-square foot home served as the home for the family of industrialist Frank Garbutt, who built the...