The extensively updated single-story residence in Long Beach, built in 1951 for a local dentist, has an abundance of original architectural details.
, one of the acknowledged masters of innovative midcentury architecture, is known to architecture and design aficionados around the world for the many fabulous and flamboyant homes he designed in some of L.A.’s most coveted areas. There’s the spaceship-like Chemosphere in the Hollywood Hills, the multi-story Wolff Residence just above the Sunset Strip, and the Sheats-Goldstein Residence that cantilevers over a steep hillside in the Beverly Crest neighborhood above Beverly Hills.
The residence, designed and built in 1951, is known as the Alexander House after its original owners, local dentist George Alexander and his wife Grace. The home stayed in the Alexander family until 2018, and tax records show it last changed hands just over a year ago for a bit more than $3 million.
The modestly proportioned and extensively updated home, measuring almost 2,900 square feet with four bedrooms and four bathrooms spread over one floor, sits on almost one-third of an acre in the established Park Estates neighborhood, along a curving street lined with trees and tidily maintained homes of various styles, some of which were designed by other illustrious architects, includingMidcentury hallmarks include post-and-beam construction with interesting angles held in check by taut...
Carefully positioned cutouts in the roof bring light and air to the covered dining and lounging terrace at the back of the house, while a tall perimeter wall and mature plantings provide a sense of seclusion. The professionally landscaped yard was also designed for entertaining.
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