Thank you Bob for the informative reply. You are correct that the house has been bought and sold at least three/four times over the years. I seem to remember a contractor as the original purchaser. The entire main level needed renovation and since he was in the business could do it at a reasonable cost.

The modest and exposed home (absent grand curb appeal) that Jim had commissioned is a far cry from entertainers property of today. Secure and private enclosures for today's artists is a necessary reality.

I have read a lot of Hank Snow's life, someone who lived just down the road from Jim. Hank's home (Rainbow Ranch) was even more close to the road and Hank would find people standing on his driveway or even in his back yard to view the barn. Metal security fencing and gates had to be installed in later years. Even worse, as you pointed out, bus tours were unbearable.

There is an interesting interview by Lucille Ball who demanded bus tours stop on her street, in her area of Hollywood. She said people would literally rip tulips out of her flower garden to have as a souvenir. She was successful with the partition, and rightfully so.

I did a bit more checking on the Bomb shelter. It apparently was added at Jim's request in 1962. The Cuban Missile Crises was the deciding factor.