A Lake Tahoe mansion owned by one of the original members of The Beach Boys is up for sale, and there’s definitely some good vibes there.
Beach Boys co-founder Mike Love and his wife Jacqueline are planning to put their 20,000-square-foot property on the market for $43 million, according to a report in the Reno Gazette Journal, part of the USA TODAY Network.
Love has owned the home on the northeast side of Lake Tahoe, about 115 miles northeast of Sacramento, Calif., for more than 40 years.
Here’s what you need to know about this home and the rock ‘n’ roll royalty who designed it.
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The property became a home and creative escape for Love, an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame who wrote the lyrics to some of music’s most enduring anthems, including “Good Vibrations,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “Kokomo” and “California Girls.”
The mansion once included a fully integrated recording studio. The space has since been transformed into a space with stunning views of the Tahoe region, while maintaining an ideal acoustic environment for music production.
The interior also reflects Love’s spiritual identity, who practices meditation. The design is based on Eastern philosophy and features a hand-carved Ganesha statue and a hand-painted sky dome ceiling. The main entrance, which Love commissioned from a South Indian temple craftsman, was also blessed by the temple’s priests.
At the base of the home’s spiral staircase is an indoor koi pond.
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The mansion sits on 2.5 acres, according to the Washoe County Assessor’s Office. To prevent future development, the Love family also placed six acres around the property in a conservation area.
Other amenities include a professional chef’s kitchen, private cinema, wine cellar and tasting room, gym, meeting room, cedar sauna, and steam room. There are also several gathering spaces within the building.
The home has 10 bedrooms, including a primary suite that opens directly onto a private deck overlooking the lake. There are 12 full bathrooms and 3 half bathrooms.
The home is currently the fourth most expensive actively listed residential property in Lake Tahoe, according to Homes.com.
The record for the highest home sale in Lake Tahoe was $125 million, set earlier this year for a home in Incline Village. The house was one of two properties purchased by a mysterious buyer with ties to a Silicon Valley venture capital firm.
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Love co-founded the iconic Southern California rock group the Beach Boys in 1961 with his cousins Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, and childhood friend Al Jardine.
Brian Wilson was primarily credited as the band’s innovative musical force, having written the band’s most ambitious record, Pet Sounds, at a time when the Beatles were redefining pop music through their unique experiments with Rubber Soul.
But as their profile grew, Wilson retreated deep into the studio, avoiding the spotlight on tours and interviews.
As lead singer, Love quickly became the group’s de facto face, melding them around a distinctive seaside sound and aesthetic, and propelling them to sunny stardom that would bring California surf culture to audiences around the world.
