Hayvenhurst

Hayvenhurst is a 2-acre (0.81 ha) compound in the Encino neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley in California, United States. It became the home of the Jackson family, including Michael Jackson, who perfected the Moonwalk and recorded demos for the albums Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad there. The compound was purchased by Jackson's father Joe in May 1971 for $140,000 (equivalent to $1.1 million in 2025) after the first commercial successes of the Jackson 5. The estate is on Hayvenhurst Avenue, in Encino, in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley. Its centerpiece is a 5-bedroom, 7-bathroom, 10,476-square-foot (973.3 m2)-building. It also includes three small stores that resemble a candy store, a puppet shop, and an ice cream shop. Additions to the property in the 1980s include a 6-foot (1.8 m) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs diorama, a movie theater, and a koi pond. "Hayvenhurst" was also the name of an earlier palatial estate located in West Hollywood, constructed in 1907 by W. H. Hay, the subdeveloper of Crescent Heights and the eponym of Hayvenhurst Avenue.