Riven Rock is a residential subdivision in the unincorporated area of Montecito, California (near Santa Barbara, California ). The Riven Rock subdivision is located on the former Riven Rock Estate .
The Riven Rock Estate was owned by the McCormick family , who purchased the 84 acre property in 1896 and in 1898 built a large two-story Mission Revival home on the premises. The estate's name came from an oak tree near the main gate, which was growing out of and had split a large boulder.[1] It was where Stanley McCormick, the youngest child of Cyrus Hall McCormick and Nancy Fowler McCormick , and husband of Katharine McCormick , was confined for much of his life as he suffered from schizophrenia .[2]
After the 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake the main house was demolished. Subsequent to Stanley McCormick's death in 1947, the estate was subdivided and sold to create many smaller landholdings.[3]
Stanely McCormick's life was the basis of T.C. Boyle 's 1998 novel Riven Rock .[4]
In 2020, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex , after deciding to withdraw from royal family duties , purchased the French Provencal "Chateau of Riven Rock", which is located on the grounds of the old Riven Rock Estate. The seven-acre, 18,671-square-foot residence was purchased from the Russian oligarch Sergey Grishin for $14.6 million.[5] [6]
References [ edit ]
^ Redmon, Michael (21 December 2016). "Montecito's Riven Rock: Fabled Estate Housed Stanley McCormick" . Santa Barbara Independent . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Murphy, Lawrence R. (June 1969). "Stanley R. McCormick: The Youngest Reaper". California Historical Society Quarterly . 38 (2): 113-123 (11 pages). doi :10.2307/25154348 . JSTOR 25154348 .
^ "Lockwood de Forest: Stanley McCormick estate (Montecito, Calif.)" . www.adc-exhibits.museum.ucsb.edu/ . Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
^ Dennis Rodkin (2 April 1998). "The Exceedingly Strange Case of the McCormick Sex Machine" . Chicago Reader . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
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Speegle, Trey (August 22, 2020). "So, Meghan & Harry Bought Their Fancy $14 Million Montecito Mansion From a Shady Russian Billionaire..?" . worldofwonder.net . The WOW Report. Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
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Leiterg, Neal J. (June 12, 2015). "Home of the Day: A grand chateau in Montecito for $34.5 million" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved March 11, 2021 .
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