All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Shirley Temple was just three years old when she made her first film. Born in 1928, the curly-haired cutie was launched into stardom with the release of the Fox studios feature film Stand Up and Cheer! in 1934. From 1935 to 1938, Temple was the biggest box office draw in the world, filling more seats in theaters than leading man Clark Gable and bona fide superstars like Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo. Earnings from the tiny tots films even pulled Fox out of financial distress and made them competitive with other large studios. At the time, the Great Depression wore heavily on Americans, and Shirley Temples effervescence, wit, and perpetually bright demeanor seemed to give the country hope amid dark days. Her impact on the nation was acknowledged by President Franklin D. Roosevelt: During this Depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that for just 15 cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles.While she was celebrated all the world over, Temples family worked to ensure she had as normal a home life as possible by switching abodes to accommodate the star as she grew up in the spotlight. Read on for a look inside the spots Shirley Temple called home.Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images1/15Temples first homeAhead of her breakout performance in Stand Up and Cheer!, Temple lived in a Spanish-style Santa Monica bungalow, at 948 24th Street, that her parents had purchased a year before the future superstar was born. Built in 1926, the 2,000-square-foot home had a two-car garage, a red-tiled roof crawling with bright bougainvillea, a large backyard by the ocean, and the jungle gym Temple plays on in this 1933 photo.Photo: Screen Archives/Getty Images2/15Fan mailIts said that Temple began receiving over 4,000 letters a week in 1934 following the release of Bright Eyes, the film in which she performed one of her most popular songs, On the Good Ship Lollipop. The barrage of fan mail and gifts became commonplace for the child star and space for their storage was partly why the Temples upgraded dwellings twice. First, they decamped to a bigger Santa Monica home, then to their three-acre property at 227 North Rockingham Avenue in Brentwood, where Temple spent most of her childhood. Among the actors most unique fan gifts: a baby kangaroo all the way from Australia, a Shetland pony from the chairman of the board of 20th Century Fox Studio, and a well-appointed playhouse from the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, which featured a modernist flat roof, French doors, and walls of glass block and concrete. The playhouse remains on the property to this day.Photo: Archive Photos/Getty Images3/15Childs playThe actor, pictured here at home in 1943, received hundreds of dolls from admirers worldwide. Her parents built a two-story Tudor-style bungalow a few hundred feet from their main house in Brentwood exclusively for the young star to stash fan gifts and entertain visiting friends. According to Anne Edwards, author of Shirley Temple: American Princess, the interior of the playhouse looked like a department store display window the week before Christmas. It hosted a theater, a soda fountain room, a kitchen, and a bowling alley.Photo: Screen Archives/Getty Images4/15A typical teenagerTemple spent the years between 1939 and 1945 enrolled at the prestigious Westlake School for Girls (now Harvard-Westlake School) in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. The entertainers box office appeal began to wane in her adolescence, but she thrived in her offscreen life experiencing school as a normal teenager. Temple was quite popular and excelled in the sciences. She was also a member of the schools glee club and clandestinely wrote her school newspapers gossip column. This 1944 picture shows the teen in repose on her living room couch the year before her Westlake graduation.Photo: Earl Theisen/Getty Images5/15The baby grand pianoOne of Temples most treasured possessions was the baby grand piano pictured here, gifted to her in 1939 by Theodore G. Steinway of the legendary Steinway piano-making dynasty. The Chippendale-encased instrument featured a sweet message from Steinway himself: I hope dear Shirley that you will like this piano as much as the Steinways like you! And thats a lot! The piano remained in Temples possession until it was auctioned off by her children the year after her death. Its much harder to say goodbye to something like the baby grand piano, the stars son, Charles Black Jr, told the Guardian. Thats been around the house since our earliest memories. We all learned to play on that.Photo: Screen Archives/Getty Images6/15Refined tasteTemples eye for craftsmanship was evident from a young age, and she held onto the decorative items she cherished throughout the many moves of her lifetime. There are pieces in the house that traveled through her life with her, Temples eldest daughter, Susan, told the press after her mothers death. The exquisite pair of cut-glass candlestick lustres gracing her baby grand piano in this 1944 snapshot stayed with the star until her death. The base, body, and holder of each are crafted completely from faceted glass.Photo: Earl Theisen/Getty Images7/15Famous furry friendTemple was an animal lover and owned three ponies: Little Carnation, Spunky, and Roanie. The trio resided in the stables of the familys Brentwood estate. Temple also had a Scottish terrier, a cocker spaniel, and a miniature Chinese Pekingese, the latter of which was initially her costar; the pup played Temples pet in the 1936 film Stowaway and was named Ching-Ching after her character in the flick. She and the dog, her favorite, are seeing relaxing at home in this 1944 image.Photo: Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images8/15Wedding bells ring at the Brentwood estateAfter tying the knot at the Wilshire Methodist Church when she was 17 years old, Temple and her new groom, army sergeant and actor John Agar Jr., headed to the expansive backyard of Temples Brentwood family dwelling to celebrate the nuptials with 500 guests. The rambling French Normandy-style home, complete with central turret and combined stucco and stone walls, was custom-built by the Temples in 1936. The property boasted a 5,000-square-foot main residence, a badminton court, a stable for Temples ponies, a shallow swimming pool, a mini roller coaster, a merry-go-round, the glass-brick playhouse, and Temples two-story cottage.Photo: Screen Archives/Getty Images9/15Temples go-to pattern and paletteOn the heels of their wedding celebration, the newlyweds posed for a photograph in their marital home, which the teenager decorated with her favorite colors and motifs. She loved fabrics with color and prints, Susan, Temples eldest child, once shared with the press. She could look at a fabric and visualize it in a room for a house that hadnt even been completed yet. It was just a gift she had, a real affinity with color. Her preferred patterns featured flowers and large leaves in rich oranges and greens.Photo: Hulton Archive/Getty Images10/15Play cottage turned family homeFor the four years Temple and Agar were married, Temples former play cottage served as the couples marital home, though the structure had to be reconfigured to accommodate the Agars. The theater was transformed into an expansive living room, Temples prized soda fountain room was converted into the primary suite, the kitchens footprint grew, and the former bowling alley became their dining room. The child star parted ways with the residence after her split from Agar and sold it to her parents.Photo: Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images11/15Homemaking in AthertonBy 1950, Temple had moved on to her second marriage to blue-blooded businessman Charles Alden Black. At the time of this photo in December 1957, the pair had settled into their Northern California home with their children. The house was located in Atherton, which was described as an upper-middle-class suburb of San Francisco by biographer Ann Edwards in 2017. (It is currently the wealthiest zip code in America.) The family lived in a custom-built redwood ranch, designed in the Japanese modern style sometimes referred to as Pacific style. Temple, who reportedly became a licensed interior decorator in 1954, wove east Asian motifs throughout the home, such as the lamp stand on the end table pictured here behind Black. The homes detached guesthouse was a round, shingle-roofed wooden structure with glass doors that opened up to a raised patio.Photo: Gerald Smith/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images12/15Polka-inspired decorShirley Temple was an avid collector with a surprising affinity for polka music (or at least its ephemera). This 1957 photograph shows the former child actor gesturing toward a framed collection of vintage polka sheet music covers used to decorate one of the hallways in her Atherton home. The distinctive piece of wall decor was sold at auction in 2016, two years after her death.Photo: Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images13/15Family timeWhen she married Charles Black in 1950, Temple also publicly announced her retirement from making movies. The former box office star dedicated most of the following decade to caring for her husband and three children, Susan, Charles, and Lori. As a mother, she was devoted and generous, although she could be a little bit stern if we didnt behave, Susan told the press after her mothers death. Family was a really, really important part of her life. She was all about her children and her husband.Photo: Herb Ball/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images14/15Room to growThe familys home, which was situated on about one acre of land, offered Temples children lots of space to play. The expansive outdoor area was filled with mature trees, flower and vegetable gardens, and a jungle gym complete with a swing.Photo: Gerald Smith/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images15/15An off-screen careerIn 1958, Temple made her television debut on NBC as the hostess, narrator, and sometimes-actor on a live anthology series of fairy-tale adaptations called Shirley Temples Storybook, which ran for two seasons. This photo shows The Littlest Rebel star in her Atherton home office the summer before the shows debut. Ten years later, Henry Kissinger appointed Temple as a delegate to the 24th United Nations General Assembly, jump-starting her career as diplomat. I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat here, the former child star said after her appointment as US ambassador to Ghana in 1974. My only problems have been with Americans who, in the beginning, refused to believe I had grown up since my movies.