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Update: Emmy-winning composer Lee Holdridge, whose four decades of credits include such early work as collaborating on the score of the 1973 movie “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” has sold his Beverly Hills home for $2,175,000. The English Tudor-style house, built in 1926, retains much of its ‘20s ambience with a turret-like brick entry, a circular stairway […]

Beginnings Built between 1902 and 1910, the Craftsman-style homes of Harvard Heights owe their grandeur to a land covenant that stipulated that houses built within the tract cost at least $2,500. The city’s best architects flocked to the area to build elegant homes for upscale residents. The naming of streets after universities such as Harvard,

Like the prince hacking through the brambles to rescue Sleeping Beauty, a modern bulldozer sliced through dense brush and oaks to reach a stone castle in Sunland-Tujunga. Now the fancifully feudal-style home called Weatherwolde stands exposed to the controversy raging around it. While community activists fight to save the 77-year-old building and give it landmark

This Pasadena home was a water tower when it was built in 1891 to match the adjacent, still standing, Grace Mansion. They were designed for William Stanton, a cousin to Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton and his wife, Ellen, spotted the site for their mansion and its water tower in 1890

The blocks of historically significant but virtually empty office buildings in downtown Los Angeles’ historic core have the potential to be converted into housing for at least 5,000 people, according to an architectural survey to be released today. The survey commissioned by the Los Angeles Conservancy is intended to fuel a growing interest among property

In the late 1950s, Jeanne and Roy Parker drove to the Los Angeles neighborhood of Westside Village from their Inglewood apartment to look at one of only two homes listed for sale in the newspaper that weekend. Jeanne Parker, a retired commercial property manager, recalls that the graceful curve of leafy Greenfield Avenue had won

All 85 lots of the first phase of San Luis Country Club Estates, a four-phase residential development of Rossi King Enterprises surrounding the San Luis Obispo Golf & Country Club, were sold out within two weeks of opening at prices from $69,000 to $95,000. Source link