Orange home of late 'Hour of Power' televangelist Robert H. Schuller for sale at $1.89 million

The Orange Country Register/March 2, 2016

By Marilyn Kalfus

The longtime home of "Hour of Power" televangelist Robert H. Schuller, set in a lush, park-like setting in Orange, is on the market at $1.89 million.

Tucked behind a gated driveway, the property includes "a jaw-dropping library modeled after an Oxford hall" that's "presidential in size," according to the listing.

Schuller bought the acreage of what would become Hewes Park Estates in 1972. It originally was a park designed by the Pasadena architect who designed Busch Gardens, said agent Phillip Schaefer of Seven Gables Real Estate.

Built in 1952 and later expanded, the 4,387-square-foot house has three bedrooms, four fireplaces, intricate mill-work and custom built-ins.

Grounds include towering, 100-year-old trees and three Koi ponds, two with waterfalls, plus a swimming pool and spa.

Schuller retired in 2010. He died in April 2015 at 88.

His relatively modest, single-story ranch house is in striking contrast to the soaring Crystal Cathedral he built in Garden Grove in 1980.

Schuller's Sunday morning "Hour of Power" television show was broadcast from the landmark glass cathedral across the world, and boasted more than 20 million viewers during its heyday.

But amid family squabbling, the church filed for bankruptcy in 2010.

In 2012, the cathedral, designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, was sold to the Roman Catholic Church, which renamed it Christ Cathedral.

The same year, the Rev. Robert A. Schuller, Schuller's son and former senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, announced that he would short sell his four-bedroom home in south Laguna Beach's Three Arch Bay for less than the $1.66 million he owed on two mortgages.

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