I've danced in the FILOLI ballroom where there is a mural of Muckross House. I also toured Muckross House in Ireland, and the Empire Mine state park. All wonderful places to visit.

The acres of gardens are the highlight for me! 🌷the rose garden in the spring time 🤩

We are from Ohio, but my daughter and family live in Calif. They go yearly to filoli to visit santa!! Last year we were able to be there at Christmas, toured the home and watched our grandbaby talk to santa. What a magnificent estate

Filoli is a stunning estate!!! Blake Carrington did very well!!! Happy New Year!! 🥳🎉🎈

Filoli is an amazing place. After tje ballroom was restored in 2018, they hosted a huge 1920's themed dinner party and dance. It was so much fun. The dinner was created using foods grown on the estate. Best to to visit is in late April and May.

Filoli is one of California’s most beautiful mansions… well worth a trip. The roses in the spring and summer are so fantastic to see and smell. A great gift to the people of California… been there many times. Always a joy!

I lived about 10 miles from Filoli for decades and was a member supporting the house. I loved going there during each season but especially during Christmas. The gardens are spectacular but especially in the spring and early summer. The mansion is really beautiful but I'm more drawn to the gardens. The Loma Prieta earthquake (Oct. 17, 1989) did little damage to the mansion, fortunately. The Loma Prieta earthquake was a M7 magnitude and was felt all the way to San Diego to the south (about 500 miles) and all the way east to western Nevada (about 300 miles). So hopefully, the next time San Andreas decides to move, it will not damage Filoli! I'm enjoying your series and especially the history you've been providing on the homes. Thanks for your work on these vids.

Wasn’t this the home were the ‘80s soap opera Dynasty was filmed?

Love Love Love this place. My family took me there for my birthday! It was all dressed up for Christmas! So Beautiful. If you go, go early and enjoy the whole day.

I have been to many functions at Filoli, the murals in the ball room are of his property in Ireland, and the library has wooden panels that can cover the bookshelves and I think also a bar. The gardens are some of the finest on the west coast.

Heaven Can Wait the movie filmed in 1978 was filmed there.

Filoli has been used for many movies: "The Wedding Planner" "Heaven Can Wait" "Dying Young" "Joy Luck Club" and many others. And, of course, "Dynasty."

I lived in Woodside while in school in the 70s and didn't even know it was open to the public. Only now did I learn this but probably won't be able to get to CA for a while. Would love to visit this amazing estate.

This is a very elegant home. The gardens are superb Thank you for showing the amazing home. So sad that it is built on a very long fault line .

The TV show Antiques Roadshow filmed three episodes at Filoli last summer. The first show airs tomorrow night.

What? You mean the Carrington mansion really isn't in Denver! This was the house used for the opening credits on Dynasty. I did not know that this sat atop the fault line. Excellent start of 2023.

Great video! I did some copper flashing on the small roof over the front door years ago. When I was still an apprentice

I have visited Muckross House in Ireland and I had no idea of its American connections. It is a beautiful place and definitely meant to be visited in the fall.

A lovely house museum beautifully managed.

Aside from "Dynasty", Filoli was used in "Heaven Can Wait" with Warren Beatty (1977-1978?), as well as "An Inconvenient Woman" (1991).

This is the second house you featured that I've had the pleasure to visit. The gardens and home are very beautiful and if you're ever in the area, I would encourage you to visit. Another time Filoli was used in a movie, an outdoor scene of George of the Jungle.

I've been to Filoli twice and it's always a pleasure. The grounds and gardens are just as spectacular as the house. I wish they'd open the 2nd floor for tours as right now only the first floor is open to the public. Either way, it's a beautiful estate and well worth visiting.

Willis Polk was a gifted architect. He did not attend architectural schools, he received training through apprenticeships to Beaux-Arts trained architects in New York and Kansas City. His drawings were beautiful. He produced memorable designs at an early age. He was quite opinionated, and it cost him some significant commissions early in his career. We can thank Bourne, who stuck with him for at least a few of what remains. Polk designed a country house for Bourne near Nevada City, CA, so he could be near his mine. Filoli is elegant.

A beautiful estate and memorable gardens in a wonderful location! I highly recommend a visit to this hidden gem in San Mateo County.

Magnificent! Especially with 16 acres of manicured gardens!

One of my favorite homes so far!!

Fault line or not, this has been standing for over a century. Every time I see this magnificent mansion, I think of The Original Dynasty series! It will always be “ The Carrington mansion”. It’s no wonder why Alexis Colby wanted this beautiful estate! lol

Absolutely stunning home and especially the gardens and orchards! A very great pity about Maud dying of pneumonia, leaving her parents totally bereft. But I do have concerns regarding the structural integrity of the house, should a very strong earthquake happen in this particular area. I advise all people to enjoy the house while it is still possible to do so.

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I used to live just down the road from Filoli - such a marvelous place to visit!!!

Beautiful home! Love the California stories! I’m from Orange County and to my knowledge there aren’t really any gilded age estates here 😢

I'm not usually a fan of Georgian architecture, but this is a lovely house. :)

Huge, but well proportioned.

The Dynasty House!!!!

The interior staircase was used in the movie The Game with Michael Douglas. He plays a billionaire investment banker and Sean Penn plays his younger, wilder, brother. They make it out that Filoli is his home and they show him coming down that huge staircase in the morning with his briefcase. The rest of the house in the movie is clearly NOT Filoli. They also used the front elevation for where he parks his car to go inside the house.....

A landscape architect friend of mine in NYC has just been hired to do some design work on the grounds - I’ve never been but it’ll be interesting to hear his experience working on such a famous and beautiful estate.

Looks so much like the home used on the TV show "Dynasty"

Really great. Thank you!

Tragic about their daughter! Beautiful homes! Thank you Ken best wishes in The New Year!

The Carrington Mansion and Estate!

Thanks for another great video.

Looks like a very beautiful house and would like to see it's more practical rooms (kitchen and bathrooms) the grounds that were shown are absolutely beautiful. I'm surprised the home is still in such good shape or even standing considering what it's built on.

This was also used in the mini series. An inconvenient woman as the LA mansion called Clouds.

I have enjoyed every house you have shown

Bonsoir et merci pour les sous titres

*cue in dynasty’s theme song* 🎵🎶

its the exterior for the Dynasty mansion isnt it?

You forgot to mention that FILOLI was used in the 1970s TV Show Dynasty. The first season filming was done entirely on the Estate until sound stages were built in Los Angeles.

I've been to greystone it's incredible. 🐀💯

You confuse the names of the rooms. The huge room facing the entrance was never called "Central room", it was always "The reception room". And there is also no "Music room" at Filoli. It was and is always called "The drawing room".

It would take a very large earthquake to destroy the building. There are quakes on the fault every day at various locations, and the threat of massive destruction (like California falling into the ocean) is exaggeration. Was the building retrofitted for quakes when it was restored in 2018?

"A house divided cannot sell"

That looks like the house from DYNASTY, the great 80’s night time soap opera. Do you know?

There have already been some pretty serious earthquakes involving that fault line and house hasn't had any real issues. Unless the epicenter is directly under it, it should be fine. I don't think it's going anywhere.

Sadly it’s probably a matter of time before it’s destroyed. I’m not sure what the common knowledge of the fault was in those days.

Dynasty didn’t get a mention?

i've been to filoli numerous times and don't believe it is anywhere close to being 54,000 sf. that would make it the largest home in america wouldn't it?

Generational Wealth is why we have most of the problems today

The Pacific Tectonic Plate is moving north the North American Tectonic Plate is moving south at the San Andreas Fault Line. The extreme pressure of these two tectonic plates. Keeps building up and building up. When these two tectonic plates finally have a massive slip against each other. There is going to be an Earthquake within the next 50 years that will be between a magnitude 8 and 9 on the Richter Scale. A Magnitude 9 Earthquake is extremely destructive and devastating to all infrastructure.A magnitude 9 earthquake at the San Andres Fault line. Will cause all the Skyscrapers in San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge in to come tumbling down. No matter how much Earthquake protection they’ve. The loss of infrastructure will be astronomical and Millions of people will die. This area of California will be permanently abandoned when the big one happens. Why Millions of People choose to live in areas subject to Earthquakes and has Active Volcanoes is really STUPID!

Why would they need 650 acres to build one house ?

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My Aunt and Uncle lived in Woodside for years, beautiful area. This family also had a house in the Grass Valley CA too they lived in before this house