But the hills also have some of the most desired real estate in L.A. There's tremendous pressure to build new housing projects on undeveloped land and to tear down smaller homes to build mega-mansion compounds.
When Dr. Cline and his wife, Tasha, offered a visitor a ride-around tour, they drove through a mansion-filled compound called Stratford Hills.
Trust us, there's no way to hit all forty mansions and compounds in only 6 hours.
Firefighters responding to an automatic alarm at one of the two mansions at the compound found a warren of televisions and computers charting financial markets around the world.
Skylands, Seal Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Me. 1925 stone mansion on 63-acre compound.
In raids on December 21st, U.S. soldiers captured several Iranians, including two men staying across from Talabani's mansion, in Hakim's compound.
The Kochs lived in a stone mansion on a large compound across from Wichita's country club; in the summer, the boys could hear their friends splashing in the pool, but they were not allowed to join them.
Not only that, the 10,000-square-foot mansion sits on a compound that also has a house for his mother.
The Kuklachyovs are now some of the best-known children's entertainers in the country, and Yury lives in a four-story mansion in an elite cottage compound that once held the country houses of the Soviet leadership, with a bust of himself in the window, Sobesednik newspaper found during a visit.
I went to see Ghani earlier this summer at the governor's mansion in Peshawar, inside a lovely compound built by the British at the height of their imperial power.
