Architect Roy Selden Price in Laurel Canyon

This five-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath traditional was designed by Roy Selden Price, whom David Gebhard and Robert Winter's "An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles" calls "one of the most gifted of Los Angeles Period Revival architects of the 1920s." If the Movieland Directory can be believed, it was also the home of Laurence Olivier when he first arrived in Hollywood. According to its listing, the 4,800-square-foot property boasts a guest apartment, library, screening room, outdoor kitchen, garden, and open mezzanine office "perfect for the labor of today's creative class." Price tag for this Price? $2,595,000.--Pauline O'Connor
· 8856 Appian Way, Los Angeles, CA