House of the Year — on the shore of Lake Tahoe
By Stefanos Chen, Wall Street Journal
You could say that Zari Mansouri’s Lake Tahoe home has views to die for.
“The colors from the West Shore are just so spectacular,” she says about the vistas from her roughly 4,100-square-foot Lake Tahoe condo — the same golden hues in Fredo Corleone’s fatal scene in “The Godfather: Part II.”
Zari Mansouri outside her Homewood are house. Photo/Jason Henry/Wall Street Journal
That scene, in which Fredo, played by the late John Cazale, takes a one-way fishing trip after betraying the family, was filmed in what is now known as Fleur du Lac Estates, a 22-unit condominium development near Homewood. Originally built in the 1930s by industrialist Henry Kaiser, who was instrumental in the creation of the Hoover Dam, the 15-acre compound was converted in the early 1980s into this gated luxury development.
The property won over WSJ.com readers: Mansouri’s home received the most votes, 88,957, out of the 897,478 votes cast in the 2013 U.S. House of the Year contest. Mansouri’s home is on the market for $6.499 million; the other homes in the poll were also on the market at one point during 2013.