El Fureidis ( Arabic for "Little Paradise") is a historic estate built in 1906 on in

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. Originally called the James Waldron Gillespie Estate or Gillespie Palace after its original owner, the Spanish Baroque & Neo-Mudéjar architecture is one of only five houses designed by the American architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. The estate appeared in numerous hand-colored picture post cards from Santa Barbara during the 1900s–1950s highlighting Montecito's estates, the classical Persian gardens and Goodhue's unique architecture.

Movie location

El Fureidis is most famous for being the source of rare palm trees now found in Disneyland's Adventureland and

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ride. It was also used in the main outside location shots for Tony Montana's Coral Gables mansion in the 1983 film '' Scarface''. The El Fureidis estate was last on the market in 2006 for $37,500,000. It has been reported that Sergey Grishin the "Scarface Oligarch" is the current owner of the estate since 2019.

Official tour

In 2014, a
interactive tour of El Fureidis
was built for potential buyers to tour the estate remotely. A slide show, of images of the property, sketches, and interior can be foun

References

Notes {{Reflist Houses in Santa Barbara County, California Gardens in California Montecito, California Bertram Goodhue buildings Mediterranean Revival architecture in California