Inside the towering iron gates of Green Acres, a Beverly Hills estate built in the nineteen-twenties by the silent-film actor Harold Lloyd, a narrow road climbs through eight acres of lawns and gardens to a mansion modelled on the Villa Palmieri, the Florentine palazzo where Boccaccio set the . . . (Subscription required.)
via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/08/121008fa_fact_bruck