Sean Hayes lists Hancock Park home for almost $9 million
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Sean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," must have gotten word that the housing slump hasn't hurt sales in the upper tiers of the market. He has listed his Hancock Park home at close to $9 million, according to area real estate agents.
The house, built in 1930, has four bedrooms and five bathrooms in 5,700 square feet. The gated, English Country-style home also has an English garden, manicured grounds and an outdoor fireplace -- great for alfresco dining.
There is a living room with bay windows, a formal dining room with walnut floors and crown moldings, and a cook's kitchen with a butler's pantry, family room/media room and library/study overlooking the pool.
The master bedroom suite has a fireplace and French windows. The master bathroom has white marble floors and a Juliet balcony. There are two other en suite bedrooms, a separate guesthouse and an office.
Hayes, 37, appeared in the recent comedy-drama "The Bucket List," in which Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman portray two men dying of cancer who meet when sharing a hospital room.
In "Will & Grace," he played a gay friend of lawyer Will Truman, a role performed by Eric McCormack. Debra Messing played interior decorator Grace Adler, Will's roommate, and Megan Mullally played Karen Walker, a tipsy socialite.
Each of the costars won an Emmy (Mullally won two), and the show won 16 Emmys during its 1998-2006 run.
Maya outpost in Rancho Mirage
Six months ago, Stan Jolley, a movie art director, a TV producer-director and one of the original designers of Disneyland, took working at home to a new level.
That's when he purchased and started a major restoration -- now nearing completion -- of a Maya-themed home in Rancho Mirage.
Jolley bought the 22,000-square-foot house for $7.7 million, according to public records. He estimates he has spent about $1.25 million on the interior and exterior, plus $2.25 million on furnishings.
The six-bedroom, nine-bathroom house sits on 7 acres at the top of the gated community of Thunderbird Heights. It is the highest-elevation home in Rancho Mirage.
"Some of the residents don't even know this property is here," Jolley said, attributing the privacy to a winding, cypress-lined, half-mile drive.
The house was built and designed in the early '70s by Modernist Howard Lapham for socialite-sportswoman Maxine Cook. An admirer of Frank Lloyd Wright, Lapham focused on blending ancient Maya and modern design
