In Tahoe City, Calif., the 6.2 acre property includes more than 400 feet of frontage on Lake Tahoe and a 5,322-square-foot main house.PHOTO: PHOTO-TECTURE

A waterfront estate on the west shore of Lake Tahoe is asking $45 million.

For many years, the estate was the setting for the League to Save Lake Tahoe’s annual Oscar de la Renta fashion show lunch, an event widely considered to be the social event of the summer season at Tahoe and which often attracts as many as 600 guests. Among the party goers in recent years have been former Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, entrepreneur Trevor Traina and Oscar de la Renta executive vice-president Eliza Bolen. More recently it has been taking place at a property in Incline Village.

The property dates back to the 1920s, when then-owner Stewart Edward White named the estate Brushwood after Rudyard Kipling’s ‘The Brushwood Boy.’ PHOTO: PHOTO-TECTURE

 

In Tahoe City, Calif., the 6.2 acre property includes more than 400 feet of lake frontage and a private dock with a boat lift. The 5,322-square-foot main house has six bedrooms, five full baths and two half baths. The 2,293-square-foot guesthouse has two bedrooms and 2½ baths. The estate also has a hot tub with views of the lake.

“It’s a classic old Tahoe-style home,” said listing agent Bill Dietz of Tahoe Luxury Properties. The grounds are designed for entertaining, he added.

The seller is San Francisco philanthropist Tamara Fritz, who bought the house in 1996, according to public records.