A Spanish Colonial-style mansion tucked within the hills of Los Feliz simply hit the marketplace for $21.5 million. If it will get its value, it might be among the many neighborhood’s priciest gross sales ever.
It’s owned by Lydia Hearst, great-granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and her husband, actor-comedian Chris Hardwick.
Gross sales north of $20 million are usually reserved for the tony enclaves west of the 101 Freeway — Beverly Hills, Bel-Air, Brentwood — however there’s a precedent for blockbuster offers in Los Feliz. Hearst and Hardwick set the neighborhood value file after they purchased the house a decade in the past for $11 million, and that file has been topped by a number of gross sales, together with ones involving Angelina Jolie, who purchased the famed DeMille property for $24.5 million in 2017, and Brad Pitt, who offered his Craftsman compound two years in the past for $39 million.
Named the Victor Rossetti Residence after the banker it was constructed for within the Twenties, the home was designed by Paul R. Williams, the prolific, trailblazing architect whose architectural imprint could be seen throughout Southern California, together with the Beverly Hills Lodge and the futuristic Theme Constructing at LAX.
Designed by Paul R. Williams, the primary home options ornate ironwork, stained-glass home windows and colourful tile.
(Rodeo Realty)
Right here, Williams deployed coffered ceilings, decorative ironwork, stained-glass home windows and colourful tile throughout two tales and practically 9,000 sq. toes. Along with 10 bedrooms and 11.5 bogs, there’s a wood-paneled library, wine cellar, pub and hidden bookshelf door that results in the decrease degree.
Outdoors, the one-acre grounds boast a backyard, koi pond, citrus grove, swimming pool, pool home and guesthouse.
Sharon Hills of Rodeo Realty holds the itemizing.
Over time, the Hearst clan has laid declare to a few of California’s most spectacular estates. Along with the Hearst Fort, William Randolph Hearst’s grand showplace in San Simeon, the writer additionally owned a Beverly Hills mansion often called the Hearst Property, in addition to a 100-room compound on the sand in Santa Monica, which is now often called the Annenberg Neighborhood Seashore Home.
