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English: The Apartment is located in the Granville Towers, which was originally an apartment building named The Voltaire, it was built in 1930 in the French Revival style by architect Leland Bryant, who also designed one of my favorite hotels in Southern California - The Sunset Tower Hotel - on Sunset Boulevard. The 7-story, 40-unit property was a celebrity magnet from the very beginning and such stars as Ann Sothern, Jack Lord, Arthur Treacher, Janet Gaynor, and Rock Hudson called the place home. Marilyn Monroe even stayed there for a brief while after her divorce from Joe DiMaggio in 1954. The rumor of the building is that she lived in the unit 61 that is the unit I designed and lived in. In the 1980s, the property was transformed into a luxury hotel at which point it was renamed The Granville. A few years later it was transformed yet again, this time into an upscale condominium building, and Hollywood luminaries once again began calling the place home