{"id":144807,"date":"2025-09-09T19:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T19:42:09","slug":"a-1960s-l-a-home-with-epic-views-across-the-san-fernando-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144807\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1960s L.A. Home With Epic Views Across the San Fernando Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the early 1960s, a comedian named Thomas Young commissioned architect William E. Mader, then just in his mid-30s, to design a modestly sized modern home in the Studio City<\/a> area of Los Angeles<\/a>, on a steep slope along a sleepy, serpentine street just off famed Mulholland Drive with epic views over a huge swathe of the San Fernando Valley.<\/p>\n

\n\tMader, a USC graduate who in 1965 became the principal architect for the Irvine Company, a prolific real estate<\/a> developer responsible for residential and retail projects across California\u2019s Orange County, completed the project in 1962. And, though it has had updates over the ensuing decades, the two-story hillside home looks today much as it did 60-odd years ago.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThough the carport has since been enclosed, the house looks much as it did when it was built in 1962.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe 2,405-square-foot home, priced at $2.095 million, is one of 14 midcentury homes that comprise the Eureka Summit Residential Historic District, a subdivision within the Wrightwood Estates development in the foothills that rise to the south of Studio City. Vintage marketing materials touted the neighborhood\u2019s homes as light-filled and the opposite of ordinary, according to listings<\/a> held by Robert Moore and Veronika Sznajder, both with Crosby Doe Associates.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Thomas house sits close to the street and, with minimal fenestration besides a huge bank of Mondrian-style frosted windows alongside the front door, is oriented to take advantage of its high mountainside perch. Just inside, nearly full-height walls of glass wrap around the great room, making for a truly cinematic view that stretches all the way from Universal City to the Santa Susana Mountains to Woodland Hills.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBreaking up the scenic vista is the original rough-cut stone fireplace with a cantilevered raised hearth. Glass sliders in both the living and dining areas open to a deck that spans the full width of the house, while the open-plan kitchen sports grey ceramic tile counters, stainless steel cabinetry, and modern appliances.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tThe small entry is dressed up with a bright blue door and a Mondrian-esque bank of frosted windows.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarc Walker<\/p>\n

\n\tA full bath on the main floor means a spacious home office is easily pressed into use as a bedroom. Downstairs, flanking a common hall, are two bedrooms and two bathrooms, the primary bath with dual sinks and a walk-in shower, and the guest bath with a sunken tub with dreamy views over the valley.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere in Studio City, Vanessa Hudgens\u2019s former digs<\/a> are now priced at $3.9 million after first popping up at $4.4 million; singer Leona Lewis has dropped the price of her home by $400,000 since it was first listed at $4 million<\/a> earlier this year; and a 20,000-square-foot mansion built on the site of the late Jeopardy host Alex Trebek\u2019s longtime home was recently listed at $42 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tClick here<\/a> for more photos of the midcentury home in Studio City.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMarc Walker<\/p>\n

\tAuthors<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"Mark<\/p>\n

\n\t\tMark David\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Mark David got his start writing about real estate with the saucy cult-favorite blog The Real Estalker, on which he obsessively tracked the secretive world of celebrity property transactions. A much\u2026<\/p>\n

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