A Turret estate, Tudor style in Laguna Beach is on the market for $ 16.5 million.
Known as The Sea Castle, this property in front of the sea of the 1930s has a main house and two rooms of guests, offering a total of seven rooms and seven bathrooms in 5,756 square feet. The records show Lona Ingwerson, remembered in Laguna Beach Independent as an requested international speaker, practitioner of Christian Sciences and “The presentation of the Band of Community Concerts of Laguna Beach at the Arts Festival and in other places in April 1999.
She died in July 2024 at 90.
When Ingwerson bought the property, he had already been expanded and redesigned from his previous 4,400 square feet by the previous owner Terry Hamilton in 1985.
“It was the only hut in the price range I could pay in the front of the ocean,” Hamilton told Orange County Registry in 1988. “No one really paid him more, caught in the old house and how bad it was.”
The remodeling was inspired by Hamilton’s trip through Europe, studying architecture there.
“I just got on the workers who were restoring Casas Viejas, asking about the participants of the construction that I could bring to my architect and contractor,” he told The Registry.
With its entrance of torreta coated with stone, roof with patones of waves and windows with diamond panels, the main house has a large room with a wooden lined roof, a two -story curved fireplace and stone floors. French doors open to a terrace. A dining room also shares the space.
The kitchen has wooden cabinets with inlays, vintage range, breakfast of breakfast and bedroom.
Uploading the floating staircase, the main suite has a living room, corner fireplace, law bar, dual bathrooms and a dressing room. It opens to a private cover with a sea view.
There is a laundry room, an ocean -oriented family room and a large office or loft style area.
The suite next to the attached pool has a private entrance.
Inside, there is a living room, fireplace and sleeping area with a private bathroom.
The land around the house include multiple terraces, a pool and spa with a black background, and a road or travel on the beach of funicular-to thousand steps below.
A contemporary coastal -style guest house with three bedrooms, vision courtyards of the ocean and oceanic vision built in 1994 is part of the race house. It has garage parking for three cars and a large motor court for additional parking outside the street.
The listing agent is Victoria Strombom de Surterre Properties.

