Actor Lorne Greene’s Bonanza house. Built in E Mesa, AZ.

It was Ben Cartwright's ranch, a huge spread on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, an empire carved out of the mythical West as the setting for the TV show "Bonanza" that played in millions of American living rooms for 14 seasons.
But in truth, there was no such house. The exterior was a mock-up, the interior just a series of stage sets.

There was no such house, that is, until Greene — the Canadian-born actor who played Cartwright — built one to launch a new subdivision that was then east of a little city whose future seemed as limitless as the Western sky.