A Los Feliz Craftsman owned by former Misfit Glenn Danzig has hit the market asking $1.2 million.
The house is famously in need of TLC. Built in 1907, it’s advertised as “awaiting your imagination and creative talents.” On the plus side, the listings says the house still has some original features, and behind the street-facing Craftsman, there’s a two-bedroom detached rear unit.
Though Danzig hasn’t lived in the house for years, it has been a pilgrimage site for fans of the musician for decades. Visitors who stopped by the house likely saw some interesting sights: Danzig apparently kept a large pile of bricks on the front lawn for several years, and he was once caught on Google Street View wearing all black and washing his black Jaguar in the driveway.
Danzig purchased the home in 1989, in the heyday of his eponymous band Danzig, and paid about $275,000. He was living here during the Northridge Earthquake in January 1994, and told MTV News that the home suffered some damage because of the event.
In a video walk-through of the house, the singer-songwriter tells the music news show that the house rocked three inches off its foundation and that shaking knocked down some of the stained glass windows. (The pile of bricks in his front yard was said to be the remains of a chimney felled by the earthquake.)
An October 1994 profile of the musician in the Los Angeles Times described the house as “a cross between the Addams Family mansion and the House of Usher.”
In the early 2000s, Danzig moved to Cheviot Hills where he bought a house once owned by Lucille Ball.
His old Los Feliz house is listed for $1.199 million.
- 4544 Franklin Avenue [Sotheby’s International Realty]
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