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# Dressing the Annenberg beach house
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/dressing-annenberg/
- Published: 2008-06-10T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T19:53:06.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

The future community beach house at 415 Pacific Coast Highway will soon get some new furnishings if the council approves an $88,500 contract with Perkins+Will.

The firm is being recommended to furnish both the interior and exterior of the Annenberg Community Beach House.

Once the home of Hollywood starlet Marion Davies, a gift from newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst during the 1930s, the five-acre property is currently being rehabilitated into a public beach club.

The 100-room mansion was sold in 1945 and operated as a luxury hotel until the late 1950s, after which the mansion was demolished and the rest of the property was used as a private beach club calls “Sand and Sea Club.” City Hall opened the facility as a public beach club until it was put out of commission following the 1994 Northridge Earthquake.

The Annenberg Foundation in 2004 awarded a $27.5 million grant for the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 10, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/061008.pdf?ref=smdp.com)