Silent Film Actor Norm Kerry owned a home of historical significance and recently his home was listed for sale and even made the local LA periodicals. Norm Kerry was more than a silent film actor he was also a fan about architecture and this home clearly shows.
In 1909, L.A. based architects Greene & Greene designed and built a craftsman style home for L.A. Packard Car Dealer Earle C. Anthony. Mr. Anthony was a forward-thinking achiever who brought numerous innovative ideas from the automotive field to L.A. Also, he was acknowledged as the first person to drive a car and he was noted for helping the Hollywood elite by providing cars and support to movie studios. This was all done to garner free publicity that helped promote his dealership on a large scale.
In late 1922, because of a massive property boom with more people moving to the area where he lived Earle Anthony decided to demolish the house and put apartments on the land. In 1923, the fate of the house was saved by silent Film star Norm Kerry who fell in love with this uniquely styled home. He engaged the original architects, and the home was dismantled and moved to its current location of Beverly Hills and is known as the Anthony-Kerry House. The house’s size is 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms total 4565 square feet of living space. The home features an oversized living room with fireplace, formal dining room, kitchen, office/library, sleeping porch, clinker-brick garden walls, detached garage with living quarters above, swimming pool, mature landscaping.
In 2013, this house was designated as a local Beverly Hills historical landmark and is the only house designed by Greene & Greene left and this is because of greedy property developers who go and buy up historical homes in order to tear them down and build modern structures inorder to flip them for a higher price. In recent years, there has been an ongoing battle between Hollywood Heritage and property/business developers and trying to save history versus losing them.
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