Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: Neff, Wallace, Architect (firm); Edwin Wallace Neff (architect)
Dates: constructed 1926
Neff designed this house for the silent film actor and director, Fred Niblo (born Frederick Liedtke, 01/06/1874–11/11/1948), who retired from a long show business career in 1933. Niblo directed a number of silent-era blockbusters, including the first version of Ben Hur (1925), and also became a powerful figure in Hollywood, becoming one of the original organizers of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Katherine Hepburn rented a house on the eight-acre Niblo Estate in the 1930s; the industrialist, Howard Hughes, shared the house with Ms. Hepburn occasionally;
PCAD id: 1998