Murphy Ranch
Abandoned ranch in Los Angeles
About
Murphy Ranch is an abandoned ranch in Rustic Canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, built in the 1930s by Winona and Norman Stevens. A long-running urban legend claims the ranch was built to serve as a Nazi enclave.
From 1950-1965, the property was owned by the Huntington Hartford Foundation, which operated it as an artists' retreat.
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