Piru Mansion

It was built by Piru's founder, David C. Cook, a wealthy publisher of Sunday School tracts and supplies from Illinois, who had wanted to establish a "Second Garden of Eden,"[1] specifying, tradition says, the planting of Biblical apricots, dates, figs, grapes, olives, and pomegranates.

The mansion and the surrounding land, Piru Fruit Rancho, was purchased by Hugh Warring, of Buckhorn Ranch, and his wife, Orie J., in 1912.

The Warring family owned the Piru Mansion for a total of 56 years, from 1912 until it was sold to the Newhalls in 1968, making them the longest-running owners of the original historical home.

[4][5] Piru Mansion was used as the home of Ellis Wyatt in Atlas Shrugged: Part I, the first segment in a three-part movie adaptation of the novel by Ayn Rand.

Some of the noteworthy personalities who have acted in productions shot at the Piru Mansion include: Shelley Winters, June Allyson, Buddy Ebsen, Ricardo Montalbán,Kim Darby, Robert Duvall, Patty Duke, James Garner, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Jones, John Larroquette, David Duchovny, Shannen Doherty, William Demarest,Alyssa Milano, Joey Graceffa, Shane Dawson, Eva Gutowski, GloZell Green, Lele Pons and many more.