Famous aviator Howard Hughes former log cabin style home up on Lake Tahoe in Crystal Bay, Nevada for $19.5 million, according to real estate blog Curbed.
The gorgeous home was built in 1934 in the style of a log cabin, the 2,518-square-foot main house has five bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms.
There is also a 1,343-square foot guesthouse with two bedrooms and two baths that was built in 1940, according to Karen Bruno of Chase International who has the listing.
The property is being sold by Chase International, and it remains very much as it was when Hughes owned it. The property has only changed hands once - Bruce James, former Public Printer of the U.S., and his wife Nora purchased it in 1995 and have made very few changes to the home since then.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the property sits on the Nevada side of the lake in Crystal Bay, near tony Incline Village where property owners include Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison.
Howard Hughes bought the house in the 1950s, Bruno told the WSJ.
"It's an old original log cabin, it's not the big, brand new mansion that we often see in multimillion dollar properties," she says. "The current owners kept the original charm while making it comfortable with their upgrades." Those upgrades included redoing the kitchen and bathrooms.
Howard Hughes, who died in 1976, was an business magnate, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, film maker and philanthropist. He was one of the wealthiest people in the world. His life story was portrayed in the 2004 biopic movie "The Aviator" starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Hughes and directed by Martin Scorsese.
