Author name: Kayla Maynard

Newport Beach, one of Southern California’s most affluent cities, is about to transform an industrial area near John Wayne Airport into a distinctly urban community of homes and shops. Uptown Newport Village will replace a pair of aging industrial buildings on 25 acres near the airport with a walkable neighborhood of shops, restaurants, parks and […]

Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon has sold Libbey Ranch in Ojai for $4,983,500. Designed by architect Wallace Neff, who became known for developing the “California” style of home, Witherspoon’s ranch was originally built in 1923 as stables for glassware titan Edward Libbey. Details include turrets, original stonework and arched windows and alcoves. The two-story main house

Behind the gates of bucolic Rolling Hills, where multimillion-dollar homes stretch out on roomy spreads, sits a house that is unusual even by mansion standards. In keeping with rules that homes in the equestrian enclave be single-story, the early California Spanish-inspired residence is one level — at least, above ground. Unseen are five subterranean stories

They call it the monster mansion. With giant spider webs and a skeleton frame loosely covered with black tarp like sagging skin, this Redondo Beach home blends right in at Halloween. But as residents on this quiet residential street can attest, the home doesn’t transform after the holiday. They’ve watched it take shape, and then

Closing shortly after co-star Kevin McHale’s nearby home purchase, “Glee’s” Lea Michele has bought a bungalow in Hollywood for $1.4 million. The one-story house, built in 1920, sits behind tall hedges and has a gated driveway. The updated bungalow features French doors, an office, attic space, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. An outdoor dining pavilion

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

Described as Classic California Tudor, this Altadena house was bought about five years ago and painstakingly restored by photographer Michael La Riche and recording-industry designer Tim Neuman. The commute to La Riche’s studio in West Hollywood became too time-consuming, so he and Neuman put the home on the market. About this house: Built in 1928