The Dean Martin House
601 Mountain Drive
Act One — c.1955 → 1972
Dean Martin's dream ranch
In the mid-1950s Dean and Jeanne Martin bought the parcel for a modest $120,000 and expanded its wood-and-fieldstone ranch from about 5,000 square feet to roughly 12,000 — with a swimming pool, a tennis court, and room for a houseful of children. His son Ricci later recalled that the family thought of it "more as a ranch house" than a mansion.
Martin lived here from roughly 1955 to 1972, through the peak of his fame. Born Dino Crocetti in Steubenville, Ohio, the singer, actor and comedian known as "the King of Cool" was a Rat Pack fixture alongside Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. — equally at home on a Las Vegas stage and a movie set.
His biggest years unfolded while he held this address. In 1964 his recording of "Everybody Loves Somebody" hit No. 1, famously knocking the Beatles off the top of the chart, and from 1965 he hosted NBC's hugely popular The Dean Martin Show, which ran for nine seasons.
By the measure of his fame the house stayed almost understated — built to gather friends, not to impress from the street. He finally moved out in 1972, around the end of his marriage to Jeanne, closing nearly two decades on Mountain Drive.
1989 — The land changes hands
Commercial-real-estate developer Guilford Glazer — the man behind the Del Amo Fashion Center, one of the country's largest malls — acquired the parcel for $6.5 million and cleared it. Dean Martin's wood-and-fieldstone home came down, leaving only the address.
Act Two — 1989 → 1995
Magnitude, in concrete and teak
Glazer commissioned California architect Fred Briggs, and together they built a bespoke museum-grade residence — completed around 1995 — that traded intimacy for scale.
The finished house runs to roughly 27,500 square feet of board-formed concrete and imported teak: a two-story glass atrium, a ballroom, ponds and multi-level waterfalls, and entertaining space rated to host a thousand guests.
- Atrium
- Two-story glass
- Joinery
- Imported teak
- Indoor
- Pool + ballroom
- Outdoor
- 98-ft pool
- Water
- Ponds & falls
- Capacity
- ~1,000 guests
- Layout
- 6 bed · 8.5 bath
- Built
- c.1995
The Glazer Estate today — roughly 1.6 acres in the Beverly Hills Estate section, the long pool aimed at the city below.
The new register of arrival
Perfect for Car Reveal Events
The house Dean Martin once filled with friends now sets a stage for a louder glamour — black tie on the lawn, a car beneath the lights, the moment photographed before it has even begun.
This scene is a stylized, AI-generated illustration — an impression of the estate's contemporary persona, not a record of a real event.
