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Basak Cakici

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$ 2,895,000

Est. payment | -/mo

4 Beds

4 Baths

3,144 SqFt

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$ 2,895,000

Est. payment | -/mo

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4 Beds

4 Baths

3,144 SqFt

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Tue May 12, 11:00am - 2:00pm

Key Details

Property Type Single Family Home

Sub Type Single Family Residence

Listing Status Active

Purchase Type For Sale

Square Footage 3,144 sqft

Price per Sqft $920

MLS Listing ID CL26828983

Bedrooms 4

Full Baths 4

HOA Y/N No

Year Built 1964

Lot Size 0.378 Acres

Acres 0.3776

Property Sub-Type Single Family Residence

Property Description

Architect William R. Stephenson --1964. There is a particular kind of house that resists the market's churn -- one that has never been flipped, never been staged for someone else's taste, never been touched without genuine consideration. This is one of those houses. Designed by William Stephenson -- who came up through Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin fellowship before building a distinguished independent practice in Los Angeles -- the residence sits within Encino's Royal Oaks, on a quiet cul-de-sac in the hills, where it has belonged to a single family since the year it was completed. Stephenson's portfolio included the Pacific Palisades home commissioned by Ronald and Nancy Reagan, work that speaks to both his standing and his sensibility: architecture that serves life without announcing itself at every turn. The house announces its intentions from the moment you step inside. The entryway is anchored in warm wood paneling -- walnut-toned, rich without being heavy -- that sets a tone carried throughout the home in built-in cabinetry and millwork that could only have been designed and installed in the early 1960s, when craftsmen still built things to last generations. There is a cohesion to these elements that no renovation could replicate. They weren't selected from a catalog. They were made for this house. The hall offers one of the home's more quietly charming originals: a cedar-lined closet, fragrant and intact, built expressly for the lady of the house. It is the sort of detail that speaks volumes about how this home was lived in -- deliberately, graciously, and with a certain style that belongs to another era entirely. Like so much here, it has never been touched because it never needed to be. That same era gave the home its bar -- an original wet bar, intact and fully functional, of the kind that once defined a certain mode of California living and has since become nearly impossible to find in original condition. It is, in the truest sense, irreplaceable. Four bedrooms, four bathrooms. Generous glazing that draws the hillside in. Living spaces that give way to the outdoors in the unhurried way that Southern California architecture, at its best, always intended. Elevated enough for layered views and genuine privacy; close enough to the city that none of that has to be sacrificed. What sixty years of single-family ownership actually means, in practice, is this: the decisions made here were made by people who lived with the consequences. Updates were intr

Location

State CA

County Los Angeles

Zoning LARE15

Interior

Interior Features Family Room, Workshop, Breakfast Nook

Heating Forced Air, Natural Gas

Cooling Ceiling Fan(s), Central Air

Flooring Carpet, Wood

Fireplaces Type Decorative

Fireplace Yes

Appliance Dishwasher, Microwave, Refrigerator

Laundry Dryer, Laundry Room, Washer, Inside

Exterior

Exterior Feature Front Yard, Other

Pool None

View Y/N true

View Canyon, City Lights, Mountain(s)

Total Parking Spaces 2

Private Pool false

Building

Lot Description Irregular Lot, Other

Story 1

Foundation Raised, Concrete Perimeter

Architectural Style Mid Century Modern

Level or Stories One Story

New Construction No

Others

Tax ID 2285017016

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Listed by William Baker • The Agency

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Realtor & Architect | License ID: DRE# 02035715

+1(510) 684-3939

16045 Royal Mount Drive Encino (los Angeles), CA 91436

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