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Father & Son Hollywoodland Homes

  • Jul 23, 2024
  • 3 min read

Like father, like son: Frederick and Roderick Burnham built neighboring hilltop homes in Hollywoodland in 1926.


Burnham homes in Hollywoodland
Roderick (center) and Frederick (right) Burnham's homes on Durand Drive (California State Library)

The family compound combined several lots above Durand Drive, on the same peak as Castillo del Lago (far left in above photo), purchased with Frederick’s new fortune from striking oil in the Dominguez Hills, about twenty-five miles away from where the Burnhams were living in Pasadena.


Until the age of 62, he had only been rich in fame as an American frontiersman turned British military assassin whose exploits inspired the international Boy Scouts.

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