Spreckels mansion

This mansion was built in 1912 by sugar magnate Adolph B. Spreckels for his wife, Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, and is therefore known as the "Sugar Cube".
To build it the Spreckels had to remove a number of pre-existing Victorians, eight of whom Alma had moved elsewhere to preserve their beauty.

It is now owned by famous romance novelist Danielle Steel, who is responsible for the atrocious bushes in front.
She used to write in a closet-sized office in her bedroom, but is rumored to have purchased a smaller house nearby that she used as a quiet writing location for years before moving to Paris.

This building appeared as club "Chez Joey" in “Pal Joey” (1957) with Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Kim Novak. It was also seen in The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950), The Sniper (1952), In Love and War (1958), Susan Slade (1961), and Eye of the Cat (1969).