Kiss guitarist to sell Palms Place penthouse
Historical Sierra Vista Ranchos lists estates
This month sees a little bit of rock and roll and a splash of Las Vegas history go on the market. First, Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley is selling his Palms Place penthouse.
According to Gavin Ernstone of Simply Vegas, the rock legend paid $3.3 million for it in 2008. Like many Southern Nevadans Stanley lost his real estate bet. It’s listed for $1.8 million. The 3,200-square-foot high-rise on the 58th floor features two master suites and a private hot tub. A LITTLE LAS VEGAS HISTORY
Lion’s Gate in the historical Sierra Vista Ranchos, a horse-friendly master-planned community in the southeast valley off Tomiyasu Lane, was listed this summer for $3. 3 million.
The community started in the 1930s as a riding club. The French country style house at 3000 Loma Vista Ave. includes a guest house that was once the stable’s caretakers’ quarters.
Community residents say legend has it that Clark Gable and Carole Lombard secretly met there while in town.
Investors converted the stables into a planned community in the early 1960s, and many of the casino executives and celebrities for the next few decades called it home.
The 1930s guest house has been refurbished, yet still has the low ceilings reminiscent of that era. It is connected to the main house by a hallway.
The main two-story house was rebuilt in 2001. It has seven bedrooms, seven baths, six fireplaces, eight garages and a pool and outdoor kitchen.
The estate is on 1.5 acres near the entrance of the community and next to the barn. It has a gated entrance and an access road in the back. ANOTHER SIERRA VISTA RANCHOS PROPERTY
Las Vegas casino executive Phillip Griffith has listed his pueblo-revival-style residence in Sierra Vista Ranchos.
The home at 6951 Mira Vista St. has an asking price of $2.2 million. Local architect, Richard Luke stayed true to the Southwestern style of architecture with materials and design when he created it in 1992. It has custom ironwork, beamed ceilings with corbels and latillas, vigas, handmade saltillo tile floors, hand-carved interior doors and four fireplaces.
The nearly 8,000-square-foot, two story house has five bedrooms, seven baths and four-car garage with workshop area sits on nearly one acre.
The cowboy spirit is apparent in the theater room where the seats are covered in fabric with a black-and-white cowhide pattern. The nearyby bathroom carries out the theme with painted tiles.
The home’s main floor holds its kitchen, formal living room, family room that features a kiva fireplace and a billiard room, a temperature-controlled 1,000-bottle wine cellar and a gym. Up a heavy hardwood staircase is the master suite that has a large private balcony. This floor also has an office with its own balcony that has views of the nearby Sunset Park.
Outside in the backyard is a large patio with seating, pool and spa, sunken fire pit with seating, and outdoor kitchen. The property also has a sports/ basketball court with lighting, tortoise habitat, two saguaro cactuses and desert landscaping at the entrance and a treehouse left over from the Griffith children’s younger days.
Listing agent Kristen Routh Silberman with Synergy, Sotherby’s International Realty calls it The Hummingbird House because of the birds’ nests on the property.
Routh Siberman is representing the seller in both Sierra Vista Ranchos homes. A LITTLE ABOUT MR.TOMIYASU
Japanese-born Yonema “Bill” Tomiyasu was a farmer in the area in 1914. If he were alive today he might be amazed at the high-wealth residents living in what was once his family ranch.
As a teenager Tomiyasu emigrated to the U.S. in 1898. He moved from San Bernardino to Las Vegas in 1917. He was one of the first Asians to settle in that area.
He raised vegetables and fruit to feed the Hoover Dam workers in the 1920s. He later grew landscape plants in the area.
Today, residents say their gardeners love the soil in the community because “it can grow anything.” Some residents event talk of finding wild tomato plants in their yards.
Perhaps, Mr. Tomiyasu, who grew up poor and was famous for saying he wanted to become affluent enough to eat six eggs a day, and did in his lifetime, is still growing a bit of his own brand of affluence in what he once called home.