A columne𒉰d sanctuary overlooking the San Francisco Bay is seeking its next owner.
Hidden in🐬 the hills of Berkeley, California, this dramatic Roman-style mansion is known as the Temple of Wings, and has been owned since 1994 by the billionaire oi🧸l heir Gordon Getty and his late wife, Ann.
“Although it is time to move on, the Temple of Wings will always represent a quiet place where beaut🎀y has time to rest before blooming,” Gordon, 90, whose father was Getty Oil Company founder J. Paul Getty, told the , which first reported the $5 million listing.
Following Ann’s 2020 death, Gordon has been selling much of the landmarked compound’s contents, and “Without the collection in the home, the h🍌ome seemed ready for a new generation to take over,” a representative for Gordon told the outlet.
Completed in 1914 (and rebuilt in 1924 following a fire), the home — which is located in the La Loma Park neighborhood — was designed f꧟or the attorney Charles C. Boynton and his wife, the dance teacher Florence Treadwell Boynton. A friend of Isadora Duncan and a supporter of the “open-air motherhood” movement. Florence’s passion for dance and the outdoors significantly inspi🌟red the design of the estate.
(In additiꦫon to being called the Temple of Wings, it is also known as the Boynton House, according to .)
It featur🌸es three bedrooms, four bathrooms, eight balconies♊, a library, a den and two entertaining spaces.
In all there are just under 4,000 square feet of interior living space — as well as the defining semi-circular outdoor pavilion with its 16 Corinthian columns, south and east gardens, sweeping views of San Francisco and a three-car driveway. It’s all set on a 16,560-square-foot lot.
The home is divided into a north and a south wing, with nine glass sliding doors and a pair of double French doors throughout ✅to allow for an indoor-outdoor flow.
Joel Goodrich of Coldwell Banker Realty is listing the property with Adrienne꧅ Krumins and Anian Tunney of the Grubb Co.
