OJ Simpson's Home - 360 N. Rockingham Avenue, Brentwood.
We all know the house... When OJ
led police on a horribly slow chase down the I-405 in LA he wound up here...
His Brentwood home. Although the house was knocked down in 1998, this is
the site where OJ finally surrendered to the police.
360 N. Rockingham Avenue,
Brentwood. The $5 million Tudor mansion of O.J. Simpson, where he and Nicole
were married, where he was arrested for her murder on June 17, 1994 (following
the Bronco freeway chase), and where he lived after being found "not
guilty" in the trial. Simpson's house became an unusual tourist attraction
in the months following the tragic events. He was forced to sell the home after
losing a civil lawsuit. In July of 1998, the new owner of the estate bulldozed
the home and all of the other buildings on the property. (The property is
located north of Sunset Blvd, at the southeast corner of Rockingham &
Ashford)
The Tudor revival architecture of
the 20th century first manifested itself in domestic architecture beginning in
the United
Kingdom in the mid to late 19th century based on a revival of
aspects of Tudor style.
It later became an influence in some other countries, especially the British
colonies.
The emphasis was on the simple,
rustic, and the less impressive aspects of Tudor architecture, imitating in
this way medieval
cottages or country houses. Though the
style follows these more modest characteristics, items such as steeply pitched roofs, half-timbering often
infilled with herringbone
brickwork, tall mullioned windows, high chimneys, jettied (overhanging)
first floors above pillared porches,
dormer windows supported
by consoles, and even at
times thatched
roofs, gave Tudor revival its more striking effects.
The amazing thing about the current
address and house that is located there now is that the homeowners have
essentially done the same thing that the owners of the Carpenters house did.
The residence is covered in plants. The house is almost invisible to see. My
Dad and I drove by the location but the only thing that we saw were a bunch of
oddly placed bushes, trees and plants.
John Morrison
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