In the sunny city of Pasadena, just north of Los Angeles, stands a distinctive home known as the House of Deefenbach. The home was built in 1943 by Harrison Deefenbach and designed by the famed architect Joshua Almondo. Deefenbach was a mogul who produced some of the most important movies of his time. When he moved into the home, he was forty-two years old and at the height of his Hollywood powers. He had some of the most important movie stars, writers, and directors under contract, but because of the power he held over the stars, many of them despised him.

In 1955, Gregory Gilbert, a wealthy stock investor, hired architect Harris Jefferies to design a home that would stand out even in a city as amazing as Manhattan. Jefferies began his career working under Frank Lloyd Wright in his Wisconsin studio known as Taliesin. However, after one year, Wright could no longer tolerate Jefferies’ arrogance and sent him packing. Undeterred, Jefferies opened his own studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico and soon attracted a number of people interested in having him design their buildings. Jefferies completed Gregory Gilberts’s home in December of 1955 to much acclaim. To this day it is still known as the House of Gilbert.

In a quiet suburb of Chicago, there stands an idiosyncratic house known as the House of LaMach. Designed by the niche architect Holly West who was best known for one thing: designing and building homes that were almost impossible to sell once they came on the market. The house, at the end of a cul-de-sac on Maple Avenue, is home to the LaMach family: Arthur, the husband and father to two young sons, Randal and Guy; Elizabeth, the wife, mother, and founder of LaMach Dating AI LLC, a company that became a leader in AI dating technology.

Nestled in the lush greenery northwest of London, stands a grand manor known as The House of Pembrooke. This magnificent estate was owned by a man named Alfred Wilson Pembrooke, who built the home in 1921 when he had attained the age of thirty. Hitting that age unexpectedly sparked a sadness in Alfred that he knew he had to conquer – he was lonely and desperately needed a life partner. And he wasn’t lonely for a lack of trying. For many years he dated obsessively but those dates never turned into anything meaningful.