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(clockwise from top) Guests originally arrived via this
driveway; a 1928 photo of the front entry of the house,
featuring the grand stairs where the family's eldest
daughter, Lucy, held her wedding; a modern photo of the
Card Room; and a 1928 photo of the Card Room, showing
the original marble fountain and painted murals.
A R C H I T E C T | D E S I G N | B U I L D
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efore the name "Doheny" denoted the upper crust of Los Angeles, it
signified the ambition of one man: Edward Laurence Doheny (the source
for the character Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood and a real-life
player in the Teapot Dome scandal). The native Midwesterner landed in L.A.
from a considerably smaller town in Wisconsin with a prospector's spirit. But
when Doheny's initial hope for gold turned to thoughts of oil, he and his friend
Charles A. Canfield became the first to strike the slick in Los Angeles in 1892.
Though fortune favored Doheny in the oil fields, it did not smile upon his first
marriage to Carrie Louella Wilkins, which ended in divorce but did produce an
heir, Edward "Ned" Doheny.
Greystone Mansion & Gardens: The Doheny Estate
