You should purchase the house Francis Ford Coppola wrote ‘The Godfather’ for $6.75M

A Bay Space residence vendor is searching for a suggestion he can’t refuse.

A 3-residence property in Mill Valley, a metropolis about 13 miles north of San Francisco, that was the longtime residence of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has hit the marketplace for $6.75 million. 

Coppola purchased the house in 1970, in response to a 1981 article within the Mill Valley Document. He bought it in 1984, property data present. 

It was from the property’s cottage, often known as the Nest, that Coppola wrote the screenplay for “The Godfather,” based mostly on Mario Puzo’s 1969 novel, in response to the vendor, Joel Rosenberg. 

That’s not the top of residence’s Hollywood legacy. 

The carriage home above the storage was the place “Star Wars” director George Lucas and his then-wife, Marcia, labored throughout the Nineteen Seventies, Rosenberg mentioned. 

“George and Marcia Lucas didn’t personal this property, however they did in depth movie work right here,” Rosenberg mentioned.

---

Obtain The California Publish App, observe us on social, and subscribe to our newsletters

“George labored on and accomplished ‘THX 1138,’ his breakthrough movie right here with help from Marcia and [Academy award-winning editor and director] Walter Murch.”

It’s additionally the place Lucas edited his 1973 hit “American Graffiti.” 

The legendary filmmakers are shut buddies, who in 1969 based the movie manufacturing firm American Zoetrope.

Their studio produced the “The Godfather,” “THX 1138” and “American Graffiti,” together with the opposite installments of the Godfather franchise, “Apocalypse Now,” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” 

The property’s most important residence spans greater than 3,100 sq. toes and blends historic character with refined fashionable dwelling, in response to the itemizing with Carey Condy of Compass, who introduced the house to the market final week. 

It’s fitted with partitions of home windows, redwood millwork and wood-burning fire alongside a fantastic room, a chef’s kitchen, and a major suite with a cathedral ceiling, a customized dressing room and a balcony with views of the encompassing redwoods. 

Exterior, the grounds have fruit bushes, vegetable backyard beds, a bluestone terrace and a birch tree believed to be among the many largest in Marin County, in response to the itemizing. 

“It has been an inspirational place to reside,” mentioned Rosenberg, who continued the house’s artistic legacy by internet hosting the Mill Valley Movie Competition and welcoming visiting administrators and actors to remain on the property within the cottage and carriage home. 

“It does encourage creativity, be it within the backyard which is consistently evolving, within the chef’s kitchen the place native and European cooks have come to prepare dinner and train or sitting outdoors and making watercolor work,” Rosenberg mentioned. “It has nice bones, nice historical past, traditions and reminiscences.”

Coppola owns a legacy winery not far off, in Northern California’s Napa Valley. Coppola and his late spouse, Eleanor, bought Inglenook vineyard in Rutherford in 1975 and have spent 50 years restoring the property.