Features: Great room, formal dining room, game room, theater room, wood-paneled library, barrel-ceilinged bar, wine cellar and tasting room, exercise room, elevator, beamed ceilings, four fireplaces, loggia, patio, courtyard, fountains, swimming pool, spa, ocean and Santa Catalina Island views.
They have carried election pledges, Turkish delight, overdue library books and barrels of oil.
The house's rooms proved far more inviting than its exterior, especially the library, a magnificent barrel-vaulted space dominated by an arched lunette (by Francis Eginton) painted in imitation of Raphael's Vatican fresco "The School of Athens".
Christopher Foyle remembers his grandfather perusing leather-bound books in Beeleigh's 40-foot-long, two-story barrel-vaulted library, a space that had served as the dormitory for the Augustinian monks between the 13th century, when it was added, and 1536, when Henry VIII broke with Rome and closed the monasteries.
Features include a walnut coffered ceiling in the library, a gold-leaf barrel-vaulted ceiling in the home theater and a brick ceiling in the well-appointed kitchen.
Instead, the library replicates the footprint of the barrel-ceiling ballroom where Kennedy gave his victory speech, with murals by one of this city's renowned artists, Judith Baca, depicting scenes from his life.
"We all have had experiences of working at cafes where the laptops just took over, and it started to feel more like a library," said Jodi Geren, head of operations for Four Barrel.
There are buildings for classrooms, a library and a camp store ("Abercrombie & Fitch meets Cracker Barrel").
The magnificent block-through view from Broadway to West End, framed by the coffered ceilings of the barrel-vaulted passageways, is reminiscent of some great Florentine library or palace complex.
As part of a general study into the impact of quaternary structure on enzyme function, a library of 31 point mutations were engineered at the dimer dimer interface of the homotetrameric 8-barrel protein, N-acetylneuraminate lyase (NAL, EC 4.1.3.3).
Call it barrel-aged barrel strength.
