Zane Grey’s Catalina Island Estate!

Zane Grey’s Catalina Island Estate!

Zane Grey's Catalina Island Estate!
A prolific writer in themes of the old West, Zane Grey's life was filled with diversified interests starting with a love of baseball through which scholarship he entered college and eventually 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 also the highest paid and most prolific writer of his time, breaking records in that niche as well.

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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 on Catalina overlooking Avaloa harbor is considered the prime building spot on the island and it commands the best views. The penthouse is said to have the most expansive views of the Pacific and has never been rented out as have the B&B rooms below. Referred to today as the Zane Grey Pueblo Hotel, we can't imagine a more interesting place to stay for total relaxation.

For those looking for a B&B to own or for investors with more sophisticated ideas for the property, this location is truly outstanding as well as historic. Price now reduced by $5m.

Source: www.loopnet.com