Hancock Park
Reality star Kat Von D buys massive Hancock Park mansion
The LA Ink star has purchased an 11-bedroom home featured in Cheaper by the Dozen. The palatial house was built by San Fernando Valley land baron Isaac Newton Van Nuys and was moved to the neighborhood in 1915.
What $2,250 rents you in LA right now
For this price, apartments thankfully include more than one bathroom. Some even have in-unit laundry and parking. But which is the best?
Ed Hardy designer’s home is surprisingly not terrible
This Spanish-style home in Hancock Park is one of five LA-area homes owned by the late Christian Audigier, known for popularizing the Ed Hardy and Von Dutch clothing brands. Somewhat unexpectedly, the 1924 home actually looks kind of pleasant.
You may have missed your chance to buy this jaw-dropping Greek Revival
Escrow is expected to close in three weeks on this stunner, a Wallace Neff-designed estate with a steep, curving staircase; intricate moldings; and grand foyer outfitted with a huge crystal chandelier. One of the bathrooms has a pink marble sink.
Elegant 1920s Spanish Revival with vegetable garden, hen house asks $4.7M
On nearly half an acre, the six-bedroom, seven-bath home mixes vintage charm with fancy modern upgrades. It's also got a guest house. Asking price is $4.679 million. Or, rent it for $14,000 per month.
Lavish Neoclassical mansion by Wallace Neff asking $6M
Built in 1960 for Ralph J. Chandler, nephew of Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler, the 8,000-square-foot residence's design was influenced by the Garden Pavilion of Versailles and the Petit Trianon
Hancock Park home built by Hancock
According to the listing, this six-bedroom home was constructed by George Allan Hancock in 1924. That's around the same time he subdivided the prominent neighborhood that is now named after him. Last sold in 1977, it looks to be in need of an update.
Hancock Park home once owned by a Malaysian sultan
This regal estate features grand archways and paintings on the living room ceiling. Property records show it was once owned by a Malaysian sultan who ruled the country as its monarch for five years. The house is asking $4.998 million.
David Arquette’s Windsor Square home up for grabs
The actor appears to be parting with the impressive O'Melveny House after purchasing it in 2014. Originally constructed in 1908, the seven-bedroom mansion was actually pulled two miles by horse to its present location.
Estate of Warner Bros. Co-Founder Asking $5.575M
The Hancock Park house dates back to the 1920s and sits on over half an acre of land. The seven-bedroom Georgian Colonial has a fancy entryway and a stunning staircase.
Condo For Sale in Hancock Park's Famed Il Borghese
The one-bedroom, one-bath unit in the elegant 1920s Mediterranean-style courtyard complex features original hardwood floors, crown moldings, period tile, and decorative fireplace. It's listed at $550,000, and HOA fees total $334 per month.
Dreamy Streamline Moderne Apartment is up for Rent
Now up for grabs is a one-bedroom apartment in Hancock Park's landmark Mauretania complex, designed by Milton Black in 1934. The top-floor unit features hardwood floors, crown moldings, a private deck, vintage tile, and two circular dining areas.
Fly Up Close to Some of LA's Coolest Rooftop Neon
This lovely drone video tours the signs of Westlake, Koreatown, and Hancock Park.
1930s French Manor in Hancock Park Asks $6 Million
The elegant half-acre estate was designed by master architect Stiles O. Clements for art collectors Lucius and Mildred Green.
Osbournes Pick Up Hancock Park House on the Sly
Sharon and Ozzy paid about $12 million for the 1930s Spanish Colonial.
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas's Decadent Mansion Becomes Most Expensive Ever in Hancock Park
Divorcing celebrity couple Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas have just sold their lavish, 1.55-acre spread in Hancock Park to an as-yet-unconfirmed buyer for $15.947 million, making it the most expensive sale ever in Hancock Park. Originally...
Manny Pacquiao Selling Hancock Park McMansion for $2.7M
Boxing star/Philippine congressman Manny Pacquiao has been distracting himself with real estate deals since before his much-anticipated, deeply disappointing title fight with Floyd Mayweather early last month, buying a Beverly Hills mansion...
The Story of the El Royale, the Most Glamorous Apartment Building in LA
Los Angeles has always been a city of strivers and social climbers. In the 1920s, this proclivity for luxury and respectability manifested in an unprecedented construction boom. The boom transformed the city from a Wild West outpost of small...
The Five Most #Droughtshamingest Neighborhoods in LA
@UCLA watering the pavement at 12:00 #droughtshaming @uclasustainability @UCLAgc pic.twitter.com/X9ihMYfWLQ— Matthew Reiser (@MatthewReiser) May 31, 2015 Social media may offer some tantalizing opportunities for people to photograph and...
Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas's Elaborate Hancock Park Estate Asks $16M
Soon-to-be-divorced couple Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas have put their 15,000-square-foot, 13-bedroom estate in Hancock Park up for sale. The Wall Street Journal reports that the palatial, Italian-Revival-style house is designed by Gordon...
Vintage 1930s Apartment in Hancock Park Renting for $1,600
Fresh from Craigslist, we find a compact unit in a Mediterranean-inspired complex that has a strong vintage charm about it. The unit comes with hardwood floors, high ceilings (so those built-in kitchen cupboards go all the way up), a decorative...
Bullock's Founder's 1906 Windsor Square Tudor Asking $4.9MM
The listing for this high-brow house isn't kidding when it calls the place "stately." Designed in 1906 by Sumner Hunt and Wesley Eager (architects of the Southwest Museum and the Wilshire Ebell), the estate was home to the founder of the...
Cornerspotted: El Royale Apartments at Rosewood and Rossmore Avenues
It's a challenge to identify this building without having its iconic sign in the frame, but two readers were able to do it. Three cheers for Ferryboi and Mudflapslim, who both correctly guessed that we're looking at the El Royale Apartments in...
Pretty French Regency Apt. in Hancock Park Renting for $2,500
Popping up on Craigslist today with a come-hither gleam is a tres charmant apartment in a well-preserved 1930 French Regency Revival-style complex on the northwest border of Hancock Park. Per the ad, the unit up for grabs has two "huge" bedrooms,...
Luxury Condos Will Just Never Please Windsor Village NIMBYs
Sixty Windsor Village residents stormed City Hall on Tuesday to appeal the approval of a 32-unit condo/apartment conversion on Lucerne Boulevard. They lost, reports Larchmont Buzz. The Central Planning Commission approved the development, called M...
12 Surf/Boogie/Skateboards Designed By Architects and Artists
For the A +D Museum's fundraiser last week, called Celebrate: Groundswell, big names in architecture and design—Arquitectonica, Richard Meier & Partners, Neil Denari, David Hertz, and many more—created custom surfboards, skateboards, and boogie...
Beach Blockers on Notice, LACMA Blobs Across Wilshire
[One Santa Fe in Downtown's Arts District is now leasing up. Check out the floorplans.] This Week's Top Stories: A plan is in the early stages to put a bike path in the LA River channel, connecting Griffith Park to Long Beach. The State is...
Inside the Newly-Reopened Excavations at the La Brea Tar Pits
Today there's LACMA, the Page Museum, and soon the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, but once upon a time the first and only museum in Hancock Park (the Miracle Mile park, not the neighborhood) was the Observation Pit, built in 1952 over a fossil...
Peter Zumthor's New Design For LACMA Winds Above Wilshire
Starchitect Peter Zumthor released plans last summer for a complete redesign of the LACMA campus, with a huge tar-pit-inspired building oozing through the site and overhanging the La Brea Tar Pits themselves. But that made scientists nervous (the...
Tenant-For-Life Hancock Park House Was Also a Drug Den
What seemed at first to be just a story about an eccentric gentleman selling a house has turned out to be a tale with nefarious layers of drugs, squatters, and "frequent yard sales." This 1920 Mediterranean in high-end Hancock Park looked a little...
Park Mile Fretting Over Plan For 48 Little Houses on Wilshire
Much of Hancock Park and the surrounding area, including Park Mile, is frozen in amber, safe from most future development aside from single-family houses (part of the reason a Crenshaw Boulevard station was axed from the Purple Line extension down...
New Bakery on La Brea, JGold's Top Restos, LA's Best Craft Beer
MIRACLE MILE: La Boulange, the San Francisco bakery purchased by Starbucks, opens an LA outpost next month on La Brea. You can get not only maple scones at the sit-down restaurant, but also sandwiches, salads, dinner, and drinks. ALL OVER: P...