December 31, 2007
Where in the world is…..? Celebrity #2: Kiefer Sutherland, who owns a converted ironworks foundry/warehouse in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake district that he now uses as a recording studio (downstairs) and his home (upstairs)
Today’s installment of ‘Where in the world is…..?’ centers around the home of currently jailed actor Kiefer Sutherland, whose residence loyal reader Rob Bander recently queried us on during our recent first installment of ‘Where in the world is…..?‘, which provided details on Kim Kardashian’s housing situation.
As we’re learning, it’s not exactly a secret to many where Kiefer’s home is, since the gate of his home, at 1019 N. Madison Avenue in Silver Lake, was reported by the Ottawa (Canada) Citizen on April 9, 2007 to be a ‘message board’ for Salvadoran and Ukrainian street gangs in his neighborhood. And multiple articles about Sutherland (try googling a few, using ‘Kiefer Sutherland’ and ‘Silver Lake’) describe his unusual decision to live in a tougher area than many of his celebrity compatriots.
So what is Kiefer’s house? It turns out that he lives in a converted ironworks foundry/warehouse in Silver Lake. In 2002, Sutherland paid just $700,000 through his Dave T. Douglas (also sometimes spelled Doglas) Trust to buy the 14,400-square-foot building, which was built in 1928.
Since buying the building, Sutherland has converted its downstairs to a recording studio, known as IronWorks Music, which he co-owns with singer Jude Cole. Upstairs are Kiefer’s living quarters.
Interestingly, Kiefer seldom has ever appeared in celebrity real estate gossip columns, either in print or online. The one time that his real-estate doings did pop up in one such column was in early 2000, when he listed and then sold his 813-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley for about $3.6 million, according to the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon’s column at that time. Public records confirm the sale, showing that on January 31, 2000, Sutherland’s Dave T. Doglas Trust sold two separate parcels — one 314.08-acre pasture at 8335 Foxen Canyon Road in Santa Maria, Calif. and one 503.94-acre pasture at 7951 Foxen Canyon Road in Santa Maria (so they actually total just over 818 acres) — to the same buyer for an undisclosed amount.
Records show that the divorced Sutherland owns two other Los Angeles-area properties as well: an 1,801-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Sherman Oaks area that that same trust purchased in early 2004 for $610,000, and a 2,467-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Toluca Lake area that that same trust purchased in mid-2006 for $1,025,000, according to public records. Kiefer isn’t believed to live in either of those homes, though, and it’s more likely, in fact, that his ex-wife, Kelly Winn, occupies one of those houses.
Filed under Celebrity Homes, Hollywood Stars by Bob Goldsborough
Comments on Where in the world is…..? Celebrity #2: Kiefer Sutherland, who owns a converted ironworks foundry/warehouse in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake district that he now uses as a recording studio (downstairs) and his home (upstairs) »
It’s on N. Madison Ave. between Willow Brook Ave. & Santa Monica Blvd.
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/40301/
A sincere thank you! You came up with this so easy. Ok, I really don’t know if it was easy, but it was super quick and I can not explain how much it is appreciated.
My web searches didn’t pull anything after many, many times and hours. I never did put Silver Lake so maybe that is why? I am happy that you mentioned that he doesn’t pop up much, now I don’t feel so bad. I really did try my hardest before making those requests.
This was very cool to read. I really enjoyed it!!!!!
Thanks a million and have a super new year!!!
Here are a couple of requests for a future “Where in the world is…” installlment. What are Reese Witherspoon & Janet Jackson’s current real estate holdings? I have searched this site and the RealEstalker and some other general searches and can only come up with some former residence information listed over at The Movieland DIrectory site. So, since there isn’t much written anywhere about the specifics of their current digs, where are Reese & Janet currently residing these days?
I agree with tlp333’s requests. Janet is an especially good candidate, I haven’t heard anything about where she owns property. And I am still hoping to hear about Jennifer Connelly/Paul Bettany’s holdings as well (I mentioned them last time this came up) especially their new property in the ski resort town of Stowe, Vermont. No one reported on it! I am dying to know about their house b/c in her Vogue interview it sounded gorgeous.
According to Google maps there is no upstaris to that building at the address listed. go to “http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GZHZ_enUS223US223&q=1019+N+Madison+Ave,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90029,+USA&um=1&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title” to see for your self.
Dawn is correct. It’s more accurate to say that the Ironworks studio is in the front of the building and that Kiefer’s living quarters are in the back.
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[...] listing of his loft, which is at 1019 N. Madison Avenue in Silver Lake. We profiled Sutherland’s home in our December 31, 2007 edition of our popular “Where in the world is?” [...]
[...] listing of his loft, which is at 1019 N. Madison Avenue in Silver Lake. We profiled Sutherland’s home in our December 31, 2007 edition of our popular “Where in the world is?” [...]