D.L. James House around 1920. Photo: Greene and Greene Collection, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Actor Brad Pitt has paid $40 million for a roughly century-old home on a bluff in the Carmel Highlands along California’s central coast, according to public records and people familiar with the deal.

Known as the D.L. James House, the property dates to around 1918 and was designed by Charles Sumner Greene, a prominent early 20th-century architect known for championing the American Arts and Crafts movement, according to The Gamble House, an organization dedicated to the work of Greene & Greene, the architecture firm headed by Mr. Greene and his brother Henry Mather Greene...

The Wall Street Journal: Brad Pitt Pays $40 Million for Circa-1918 Coastal California Home