The Lockridge mansion 2100 Park lane, district of Montecito, Santa Barbara

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Neighbor of the Capwell mansion, the Lockridge mansion appears much less sumptuous to us than her direct competitor. We have only a few details on its style or its architecture, because in fact we only know a sight on what could be the windows of the living room (surrounded by some ivy), with, in the foreground, the swimming-pool.

Then comes the entrance, lined with greenery.

We enter the mansion by a glass door, which will be replaced by a full door after having been destroyed during the earthquake of November 1984.

A hallway gives access onto the right when entering to the cellar, on the left to the staircase towards the first floor. 

Opposite the entrance, we can access the living-room.

The Lockridges' living room is a vast room with white sofas face to face.

The walls are painted in pink, but they will very quickly be repainted in blue not to confuse this living room with the Capwell mansion.

Right on the left of the room, in withdrawal, is Lionel's desk. It is where Dominic will come to hide the evidence of the death of Channing Junior.

Behind the sofa, some wide white windows let glimpse the garden.

On the left of the fireplace where family photos are exposed, some shelves serve as mini-bar. A secret safe is also hidden inside. On the right, a door allows to reach the kitchen, however never seen on the screens.

At the beginning of 1987, we discover a new room situated also at the ground floor : it is a second living room. This latter is used as a sports room by Warren. Few scenes will be shot there.

As from the first episodes, of the mansion, we discover Augusta's bedroom (which welcomed Joe, then Lionel). It is a room (that we know far away from Minx's bedroom), decorated in what can be defined as the pure Augusta Lockridge style : the walls are in cream and red colors, on a side table are posed many bottles of perfume, the sheets of the bed are black and white.

Close to the bed, a door allows to access to the bathroom. We remind the bath of champagne at Augusta and Lionel's New Year's Eve.

Always on the second floor, can be found among others Laken's bedroom, with its walls in pastel colors and decorated with posters.

Minx's bedroom appears as from 1985 and will be the subject of Augusta's searches to find the secrets that it holds about Channing Capwell Junior and Brick Wallace.

From the entrance of the mansion, we can reach the cellar by a wooden staircase. From there, a hidden exit allows to join a tunnel, which connects the Lockridge mansion to the Capwell mansion.

In rare occasions will be shown to us the stables of the villa, looking to be mistaken to those belonging to the Capwells.

At the beginning of the show, the Lockridges counted as employee only one chauffeur named of Ambrose. Then, there was Joe Perkins, as a handyman, then a new list of chauffeurs: Brick Wallace, Janice Harrison.

In 1988, after the complete desertion of the various Lockridge family members, the house is transformed into a Bed & Breakfast by Gina. It will moreover know only one customer, Bunny Tagliatti. It is at The Wheel of Fortune that Gina wins the furnitures which will allow her to fill the mansion.

The villa is completely destroyed in 1990 by a fire, caused by the jealous Laura Asher. At her return in town, Minx Lockridge buys the ground back and makes build a new villa. She takes advantage of it to invite there her daughter that she has just found, Cassandra Benedict, and so to build gradually with her links until then difficult to establish. The inside of the new villa has not the charm and the peculiarity of the previous one. The cream-colored walls and the rich and golden decoration do not allow to distinguish these places of another villa of rich millionaires in Santa Barbara or somewhere else. These sets will moreover be little used, the main part of the action taking place in the new guesthouse.

It is Lionel who, the first one, occupies the guesthouse, settled next to the villa on the Lockridge property. He so enjoys a certain intimacy and an autonomy towards Minx, at least until he is joined at the beginning of 1992 by Gina Capwell. This latter has just given birth in Lionel's presence and imposes herself upon him as his personal assistant, coming to settle down with her baby, Channing Capwell III. Of modest size, the guesthouse contains a main room which serves as lounge and at least two bedrooms, which can be reached by a door immediately to the right by entering.

Of the new Lockridge villa, we know first of all only Cassandra's bedroom, which adjoins Warren's, her nephew and former lover.

Then comes Minx's, where she cultivates healing plants in a small greenhouse.

Finally, a third bedroom appears on screen when, in the year 1992, Lionel and Gina go as a couple and come to settle down in the villa. The bedroom contains its own bathroom, accessible by a door to the right of the bed.

It is Lily Blake, Gina's daughter, who comes to occupy the guesthouse after their departure.

Read also : The fire of the Lockridge villa

The rest of the property is shown to us only very briefly during the first episodes, with the fence in barbed wires which separates it from the Capwell property. Another part of the property, always on the border between the Capwell lands and the Lockridge lands will be exploited when Lionel and Jane will find fragments of dinosaurs skeletons and when Minx, at her comeback in Santa Barbara in 1990, will talk about the water spring with rejuvenating virtues that she discovered there : the Capridge water...