A century-old mansion built by municipal architects in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles is up for sale asking $9.95 million.
The classic Spanish Colonial home on South Rimpau Avenue was built in 1925 by the son and father duo behind architecture firm Weston & Weston for themselves. The Westons primarily built municipal and commercial buildings—some with cultural landmark designations—including public libraries and a bank, and they brought that expertise to their home.
“They used steel posts and beams in the foundation,” said listing agent Brent Watson of the Beverly Hills Estates, who plans to list the home alongside colleague Marco Salari this week. “It was built like a commercial-style property.”
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That’s not to say it looks like an institutional building—but that it has the scale stateliness of something designed to inspire a feeling of grandeur. The six-bedroom home spans 6,675 square feet on a half-acre lot and features large paneled windows, stenciled oak ceilings, a walk-in safe in the basement and a large beamed-ceilinged veranda on the second floor overlooking the stone-paved yard and pool deck.
The architects weren’t the most notable people to have lived at the house.
Past residents include prodigal guitarist John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, according to information from the Beverly Hills Estates. Public records indicate he lived there in the 2000s. It also served as the Colombian consulate for many years, according to the brokerage.
One of the home’s more striking features is a red-tiled hallway with overlapping coved ceilings that runs the length of the home. On one side, arched French doors lead to the stone patio, while the other branches off into main common spaces.
“The gallery hall with the double-height windows and French doors going out, that’s a pretty particularly spectacular hallway,” said Watson. “All rooms open to it.”
In addition to the main home, there is a two-story building with a three-car garage on the first floor and a full two-bedroom apartment on the second, which includes its own kitchen and laundry room.
The sellers purchased the property in 2001 for $3.1 million and have maintained many original finishes ever since. That includes the tiled hallway, stenciled oak ceilings in the dining room, clerestory windows in the kitchen that flip open and all the doors. The sellers could not immediately be reached for comment.
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The Hancock Park neighborhood is a residential enclave dating to the 1920s, known for its large estates and stately Tudor and Spanish Revival mansions, the characters of which have been carefully preserved.
“People who live there want the authentic; they don’t like all the shiny new finishes,” said Watson.