Home Sweet Home

Bing Crosby owned a vast amount of real estate during his lifetime, including several homes that served as primary residences and many vacation homes. Bing bought and sold homes like brokers buy and sell stocks. Here is a list of his primary residences beginning in 1933 followed by a list of vacation homes where Bing often stayed.

Primary Residences:

Toluca Lake home #1 1933-36
4326 Forman Ave, North Hollywood, CA 91602
Near Toluca Lake and Lakeside Golf Course
With the arrival of Bing and Dixie's first child they decided to build a home at the corner of Forman and Toluca Lake avenues. It's a 5,000-square-foot English Tudor.


Toluca Lake home #2 1936-43
10500 Camarillo Street, North Hollywood, CA
Colonial Villa near Toluca Lake and 5 miles from Lakeside Golf Club
Now with 3 children and more to come the Crosbys buy a 20 room home that includes 7 bathrooms. A fire from Christmas tree lights burned the home to the ground in January 1943 while Bing was golfing.

Holmby Hills 1944-64
594 South Mapleton Drive, Los Angeles CA
Built in 1932 next to Los Angeles Country Club
17 room Georgian Colonial home
Bing sold the home in 1963 without consulting his wife. The home was demolished in 1988 after it was purchased by TV producer Aaron Spelling.


Hillsborough #1 (1964-65)
101 Robin Road, Hillsborough, CA
Hillsborough is located between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Bing had just finished a round of golf in Hillsborough in 1963 when he was approached by the original owners and invited to tour the home. Bing agreed to buy it without consulting his wife, who preferred to remain in Los Angeles. When Kathryn toured the home she was aghast. Bing promised her that their stay would be brief.


Hillsborough #2 (1965-77)
1200 Jackling Drive, Hillsborough, CA
11-bedroom, 10-full bathroom, and five-half bathroom
Bing and Kathryn toured the home Oct. 1, 1964. Kathryn insisted that Bing buy it. He did, although they couldn't move in until late 1965. Following Bing's death Kathryn continued to occupy the home part-time. Following her death reportedly at this home in 2024, the family sold the home for $25 million.


Vacation / Getaway Homes:

• Rancho Santa Fe (north of San Diego and near Del Marr race track)
• Rising River Ranch in Northern California 1958-77. Sold to Clint Eastwood 1978.
• Cattle ranch in Elko, Nevada (1944-1958)
Hayden Lake Idaho, at least 2 homes. The last one was a 3,000 square-foot log house built in 1955 about 40 miles east of Spokane. Later owned by Bing's son, Phillip.
• Pebble Beach Golf Course near 13th hole, Monterey County, CA (Built for Crosby in 1948.)
Rancho Las Cruces (1960-77), Baja California, Mexico
• San Isidro Country Club in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Bing's Greater Palm Springs Area Homes:

(Greater Palm Springs includes 9 cities, one of which is named "Palm Springs.")
• 1011 East El Alameda, Palm Springs
Thunderbird Country Club, 70375 Calico Road, Rancho Mirage
(Rancho Mirage has been misrepresented as location of the JFK-Marilyn Monroe tryst.)
Silver Spur Ranch, 49400 Della Robbia Lane, Palm Desert
(Bing's isolated Palm Desert home -- now part of Ironwood Country Club -- is where President Kennedy twice stayed. Mrs. Crosby confirmed this in her book "My Life with Bing" (p205). Streets near the Silver Spur home are labeled "Crosby Lane" and "JFK Trail.")


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