LA real estate
fromLos Angeles Times
35 years agoMysterious Mansion Merely Facade : Estate: Many details about the home and life of Helen Morgenthaler remain hidden. But the structure clearly was a mix of the wildly eccentric and the surprisingly ordinary.
A San Marino mansion's grand Mediterranean facade concealed a deteriorating two-story house with structural problems, revealing decades of local fascination with eccentric owner Helen Morgenthaler's mysterious estate.