Nice house, huh? According top the real estate listing, the home at 2475 Glendower Place in Los Feliz, California, has five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and a ballroom on the third floor. But this house comes with a history and has been vacant for 60 years, since the murder in 1959.
The property was sold in a probate action a year later to Emily and Julian Enriquez, but the couple never moved in.7Instead, they used the expansive estate as a glorified storage facility, periodically dropping off their stuff over the decades. The Enriquezes also never moved any of the Perelson furnishings out. They supposedly even kept the Perelson’s Christmas tree and unopened presents. The property became a twisted time capsule that attracted urban legends and lookie-loos.
When Emily Enriquez passed in 1994, her son, Rudy, inherited the home. Like his parents, he never moved in and did not maintain the mansion.7 In 2009, he told the Los Angeles Times, “I don’t know that I want to live there or even stay there.”7
For more than fifty years the Enriquez family allowed the “Murder Mansion” to decay, rarely even making repairs. The lawn turned brown, weeds swallowed the terraced gardens, the driveway asphalt remained cracked, and broken windows were not fixed.7 Neighbors eventually took it upon themselves to help maintain the ramshackle house, going so far as to paint the street-level garage and clean the front yard.7 The city eventually intervened, requiring Rudy to make repairs on the rundown property.7
What makes a $3 million property in Los Angeles so cursed that no one wanted to live there? Read what happened to the Perelson family, the last residents of the "Murder Mansion," at Strange Remains. -via Strange Company
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