Brad Pitt Drops $40 Million on Carmel’s Historic D.L. James House
In what’s believed to be the most ever paid for a home in the area, Brad Pitt has shelled out a whopping $40 million for a century-old estate in California’s unincorporated Carmel Highlands community. The house comes with a seriously impressive pedigree: it was built by famed architect Charles Sumner Greene, of Pasadena-based Greene and Greene, known for pioneering the American Arts and Crafts movement.
The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the off-market deal, noted that the landmark Carmel property bears little resemblance to many of Greene and Greene’s most famous works, including the Gamble House. Built for wealthy Kansas City businessman D.L. James, the clifftop home took five years to complete, and renovations continued for decades afterward; the Monterey County Weekly once wrote that the place looked like Greene “couldn’t decide between a grand Spanish Mission home and a stone cottage.”
