"Postmodern" House With Recording Studio in Nichols Canyon Asking $1.5 Million
Right out of the gate, the listing description for this Nichols Canyon abode mentions that it contains a recording studio "where the 5th most successful song in the world was recorded," but coyly withholds any further identifying information, which, frankly, makes it a little difficult to pay attention to the sentences that follow, but let us soldier on. Sited on a 7,636-square-foot lot a couple blocks north of Hollywood Boulevard, the two-story house also features four bedrooms, two and a half baths, a balcony deck, a heated swimming pool, and a koi pond. Now that we've got that out of the way, we can once again focus on the mystery song. What could it be? "Smooth," by Santana with Rob Thomas? LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem"? "Un-Break My Heart"? "Call Me Maybe"? Okay, listing, we give up -- what is it?!?!
Idyllic Brentwood Park Compound With John Byers Cottage Asks $11.25 Million
Open House: Sunday Jan 16 between 1 - 4 PM
167 South Rockingham Ave, Brentwood
Price: $11,250,000
Beds, Baths: 5 BR, 5.25 BA
Floor Area: 4,310 sq. ft.
Per the Listing: "Incredible opportunity to acquire one of the finest properties in all of Los Angeles. Poised on the west rim of the exclusive Brentwood Park, the legendary Anawalt estate offers a magical & enchanting setting unlike anything else in town. Enjoy approximately 30,000sqft of land on coveted S. Rockingham Ave with sensational views of the canyon reaching the Pacific blue. Walking distance to the Brentwood Country Mart, this one-of-a-kind retreat offers both a 1960s grand Craftsman standing as the perfect canvas for redesigning your modern day dream home as well as an ideally situated lot perfect for developing a brand new masterpiece. Dream-worthy parklike grounds create a romantic ambiance leading to a storybook garden house designed by renowned architect John Byers. A once in a lifetime opportunity on one of the most exclusive streets in LA, this Brentwood Park estate will move and inspire you."
Beds, Baths: 5 BR, 5.25 BA
Floor Area: 4,310 sq. ft.
Per the Listing: "Incredible opportunity to acquire one of the finest properties in all of Los Angeles. Poised on the west rim of the exclusive Brentwood Park, the legendary Anawalt estate offers a magical & enchanting setting unlike anything else in town. Enjoy approximately 30,000sqft of land on coveted S. Rockingham Ave with sensational views of the canyon reaching the Pacific blue. Walking distance to the Brentwood Country Mart, this one-of-a-kind retreat offers both a 1960s grand Craftsman standing as the perfect canvas for redesigning your modern day dream home as well as an ideally situated lot perfect for developing a brand new masterpiece. Dream-worthy parklike grounds create a romantic ambiance leading to a storybook garden house designed by renowned architect John Byers. A once in a lifetime opportunity on one of the most exclusive streets in LA, this Brentwood Park estate will move and inspire you."
Formerly home to Richard and Patricia Anawalt, this idyllic slice of heaven is on the market for the first time since 1965. If the name "Anawalt" doesn't ring a bell, here's a primer courtesy of Realtor.com: "Richard led the family business, Anawalt Lumber, for decades. Patricia, an anthropologist who studied worldwide ethnographic clothing and founded the Center for the Study of Regional Dress at UCLA's Fowler Museum, took over her husband's role at the company when he died in 2000. She died in October."
1910 Craftsman in Country Club Park Asking $1.03 Million
Open House: Saturday Jan 16 between 1 - 4 PM
1214 3rd Ave, Country Club Park/Arlington Heights
Price: $1,029,000
Beds, Baths: 4 BR, 3 BA
Floor Area: 3,714 sq. ft.
Per the Listing: "Inverstment [sic] opportunity. location location location. very well maintained huge house. buyer verify all permit. historic preservation overlay zones (HPOZ). a lot of original fixture and beautiful interior / check picture. the house is alive as 1920, House is not built as this style anymore."
Beds, Baths: 4 BR, 3 BA
Floor Area: 3,714 sq. ft.
Per the Listing: "Inverstment [sic] opportunity. location location location. very well maintained huge house. buyer verify all permit. historic preservation overlay zones (HPOZ). a lot of original fixture and beautiful interior / check picture. the house is alive as 1920, House is not built as this style anymore."
Well, this old gal—which, ahem, was actually built in 1910, not 1920—certainly seems to have had a bit of a whirlwind year. According to public records, it last traded hands just six months ago for $840,000. Less than a week later, it was flung back onto the market with the very specific asking price of $1.091 million, which got trimmed down to $999,000 on October 24. A few weeks later, it went pending, only to be relisted almost immediately, then went pending again, then relisted/priceupped, and so on, which brings us to today. We wish we could tell you more about the house—maybe (hint hint!) the listing agent will be a bit more forthcoming with photos and information in its next go-round?
Handsome Mid-Century Mod in Laurel Canyon By a Neutra Protege is Still Looking Pretty Good
You probably haven't heard of architect Don Polsky, but you probably know his influences: according to this listing, he was a protege of Richard Neutra, and you can certainly see that in this 1958 house in Laurel Canyon. Today the carpets looks a little grody, but the bones are all good: floor-to-ceiling windows, a wraparound balcony, plus a seriously badass tile wall and vintage kitchen appliances. The house also comes with three bedrooms and two bathrooms, which includes a separate mother-in-law suite, a downstairs "office or bedroom" overlooking the backyard. The listing strongly suggests messing with the place, noting that it's "ready for your remodel" and "perfect for the Buyer looking for a classic home to personalize," but it really doesn't need much more than a freshening. Asking price is $1.299 million.
52 Buildings to See Near The Times's Places to Go, Part 1
Clockwise from top left: St Mark's Cathedral in Korcula, Croatia; New City Hall in Toronto, Canada; Louvre Abu Dhabi; Twisting Tower in Malmo, Sweden;Renzo Piano's work in Malta; the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, DC.
Few things provide as strong and reliable a dose of wanderlust as the New York Times's annual 52 Places to Go feature. In addition to offering hope to those slogging through the dead of winter and fueling the fantasy that you may somehow accrue enough vacation days, business trips, and unexpected financial windfalls to afford to take a fabulous vacation every week of the year, it also offers incredible photos of pristine landscapes and urban scenery from across the globe. While there's little additional inspiration required after seeing this compendium of dream vacations (outside direct links to discount flights), we went through the list and added our own suggestions for architectural marvels and historic buildings worth adding to the itinerary. Consider our list of sights as an addition, or additional realistic background on which to project your travel fantasies.
Where Will All Those Los Angeles Rams Players Live in LA?
The St. Louis Rams are moving to Los Angeles! And that means a "53-man roster, plus coaches, assistant coaches … 100-plus people looking for homes" before the season starts in the fall, a local real estate agent tells the LA Times. And that means a real estate bonanza. Sort of. Even though high-end brokerage The Agency is staffing up to accommodate all those pro athletes, they're far more likely to rent, seeing as how the average NFL career only lasts about three years, and commissions on rentals are nothing compared to what these guys make on multi-million-dollar buying and selling. (Plus the average house in LA costs roughly three times the average house in St. Louis.)
10 Stereoscopic Photos of Turn-of-the-Century Los Angeles
Our Lady of the Angels Church (La Placita, now at Olvera Street) in 1875. All images via the New York Public Library Digital Collection.
The New York Public Library's Digital Collections hold hundreds of thousands of images, but these 10 from Los Angeles are fascinating not only because of the time period they capture (the city in the late Nineteenth and possibly early Twentieth Century), but also in their eye-catching format. Stereoscopic photography uses two photos, side by side, of the same scene and a special photo viewer to create an image with depth for the beholder. Between 1850 and about 1910, a stereoscopic viewer was a fairly common household item, and so photos like the following could be enjoyed by pretty much anyone of that time. Now it's a little harder to see the depth (unless there's a spare stereoscope hanging around), but the images still have incredible value as postcards from a bygone era in Los Angeles's history.
Huge Porter Ranch Gas Leak is Probably a Lot More Carcinogenic Than SoCal Gas Will Admit
Since late October 2015, a terrifying amount of methane has been leaking from a well in the Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon facility, not far from the San Fernando Valley community of Porter Ranch. Though the short-term effects of the chemical added to the methane to make it smell like old eggs (so leaks can be more easily detected) have been blamed for all the nausea and headaches that locals have been experiencing, the gas company and public health officials have said that no one needs to worry about long-term health effects. But now it's been revealed that the leak has also introduced more of the cancer-causing chemical benzene into the air than the gas company has previously said—possibly enough to cause problems in the long run, says CBS LA.
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Attempts to Plug the Enormous Porter Ranch Methane Leak Have Made Things Way Worse
So there is an enormous gas leak at the Southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon storage site near the San Fernando Valley community of Porter Ranch that has gone unplugged for nearly three months now. In the first month alone, it accounted for a quarter of all of California's methane emissions and by now has spewed about 84 thousand metric tons of the global warmer. Residents have gotten headaches and nausea. Thousands have been relocated. SoCal Gas says the leak won't be stopped for months. Every attempt to fix the problem so far has caused more problems. And apparently it can still get way, way worse. There could be a blowout, in which case "highly flammable gas would vent directly up through the well, known as SS25, rather than dissipating as it does now via the subsurface leak and underground channels," according to the LA Times. How likely is that? It's now "a significant concern after a seventh attempt to plug the well created more precarious conditions at the site." (Seventh.)
Map: A Castle in Every State in the USA
The United States of America is not typically thought of as a land of castles, and with good reason—the uniting of the American states coincided, not coincidentally, with the beginning of the end of the era in which kings and queens ruled over everything, holing up in huge fortified houses so that the peasants and/or invading barbarians couldn't kill them.
But in a way, that's too bad, because the USA is a land of excess, and there's nothing more excessive than a castle. And there are somecastles in this country—maybe more than you'd expect—which range from (mostly) vanity projects, to mini golf courses, to even a few places that originally served some military purpose. In fact, we found a castle in every state in the USA.
Take a Lovely Video Journey Into Joshua Tree in Darkest Night
California artist Eric Merrell has spent years trekking into Southern California deserts to paint landscapes by the moonlight for his Nocturnes series. Merrell finds his inspiration when dusk begins to take hold of the desert—he says that "When night falls in the desert it becomes almost an entirely different world. It's hard to tell where the facts end and the fiction begins." A new documentary short by Alec Ernest (in the Los Angeles Review of Books) allows viewers to tag along on one of these painting expeditions as he give us an insight into the moonlit world of Joshua Tree National Park. The result is a stunning glimpse of the park's natural beauty, in a setting not often filmed.
Trendy LA Neuehouse Coworking Hub Opens in Former CBS HQ
Photos by Emily Andrews, courtesy of NeueHouse LA
The glamour of the entertainment industry and the tidy forms of Modernist architecture converged at the 1938 CBS headquarters on Los Angeles's Sunset Boulevard, designed by architect William Lescaze. The Swiss-born Lescaze, commissioned to create a new kind of workplace typology—the broadcast facility—applied the hallmarks of the International Style to the building's graphic exterior: right angles, pilotis, and an all-white paint job. On the inside, though, he applied the softer touches of Streamline Moderne, the stylistic compromise between his Old World austerity and Hollywood's obsession with Art Deco—whimsical porthole windows and glass bricks; sinuous curves instead of sharp corners; grooves on the horizontal surfaces.
How Droughty is Los Angeles Still After Last Week's Big Rains?
Last week's monster rains flooded streets and drowned carsthroughout Los Angeles, but this week's higher temperatures and sunny skies serve as a reminder that one watery week doesn't erase the years of hardcore drought that have dragged on in SoCal and all of California. The record-breaking rains are a reason to be excited, certainly, but "Although this is a favorable start to the year, there are still 3-4 more critical months that will determine how much rain/snow will fall and accumulate during the wet season," David Miskus, a meteorologist with the Climate Prediction Center and Drought Specialist, tells the state's Office of Emergency Services.
What Will Carson Do With Its Reject NFL Stadium Site?
All this land is cleared and ready to develop
Just like at the Super Bowl, when two cities are battling it out for a football franchise, one ends up the victor and the other comes up empty-handed. Except that in the case of the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, which has just lost out to Inglewood and the Rams on the opportunity to bring an NFL franchise back to Los Angeles, they do have one thing to show for their shattered dreams: 157 acres of prime, freeway-adjacent real estate that was all ready to house a world class football stadium. Carson City Manager Ken Farfsing calls the now-former stadium site "one of the last swaths of land for development in the Los Angeles area and very lucrative property." According to the LA Times, Carson may have lost the battle, but ultimately won the war, walking away with a pricey piece of newly cleaned up land to develop at will.
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