Zane Grey’s Catalina Island Home!

Zane Grey’s Catalina Island Home!

Zane Grey's Catalina Island Home!

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A prolific writer in themes of the Old West, Zane Grey's life was filled with diversified interests starting with a love of baseball for which he received a college scholarship, and later breaking records in salt water fishing in many parts of the world. The first person to popularize deep sea sport fishing, he promoted the sport on Long Key in Florida, in Australia, New Zealand, and later in Tahiti. Hounded by emotional highs and lows in a lifelong struggle, today he would probably have been diagnosed as bipolar. Writing soothed his demons and write he did. He was the highest paid and most prolific writer of his time. Is it any wonder that such a super achiever yearned for a quiet getaway, and most particularly with easy access to good fishing waters as his life shifted from desert to ocean? Often devastated by critics of his novels, we wonder if the shift in interest priorities wasn't to find fulfillment in an area not open to criticism.

The sprawling Pueblo-style estate he built in 1926 on Catalina overlooking Avalon harbor is considered the prime building spot on the island and it commands the best views. He lived here from the time it was completed until he died in 1939. The penthouse, built later, is said to have the most expansive views of the Pacific and has never been rented out as have the B&B rooms below. Though Zane Grey lived in the entire pueblo, today it is known as the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel and has had the same owners for more than fifty years.

The Zane Grey Pueblo, a fortress suspended between the light blue sky and the deep blue ocean. Price just reduced one million dollars to $8,899,000.

Source: www.loopnet.com