This sunny 1930s home sits above the street in the hilly Mount Angelus district of Highland Park.
Situated on a lush, 7,965-square-foot lot, the house is fronted by trees and tall hedges. Alongside the home is a large wooden deck and an adjoining pergola overlooking a terraced garden.
Inside, the 1,364-square-foot home has two bedrooms and one and a half bathrooms. The living room, framed around an elegant fireplace, has coved ceilings and hardwood floors. Tall casement windows fill the space with natural light. The adjacent dining room looks out on a covered balcony with views across the neighboring hills.
The house retains plenty of vintage features, but has a few recent updates. The roomy kitchen is equipped with stone countertops, newer cabinetry, and stainless steel appliances. The master bathroom, on the other hand, still boasts some classic seafoam tile.
Located at 201 Wayland Street, the house is listed for $890,000.
Comments
An investor will have this house back on the market by this Fall…. For a price tag of more than $1 Million.
By H. Helmholtz on 03.10.20 10:40am
I believe that, nice house as is, but with the right updates could be a knockout. Good price, I like the way it sits way up on it’s lot and street
By mrjim1 on 03.10.20 11:08am
mrjim – to paraphrase a comment you made on another house maybe a week ago, this is just another (ho-hum) million dollar LA starter house. Sitting high on the lot is a plus, granted, but that big front hard is just an expensive maintenance sinkhole that doesn’t get used (or maybe even seen from the front porch). But I too love LA.
By kcp1 on 03.10.20 8:57pm
This just seems nicer then that house. The large semi-private hilltop lot makes a big difference to me. The commanding view of the surrounding neighborhood just gives it a slight edge over the usual ho-hum million dollar LA house. I’m surprised that it doesn’t have one of those underground front garages so common in this type of house
By mrjim1 on 03.10.20 9:14pm
FYI, since you misuse it daily…
(From the Internet)
Then is mainly an adverb, often used to situate actions in time. For example, you wake up in the morning and then have breakfast. It’s also used in if … then constructions such as, "If you wake late, then you might have to skip breakfast." It also works as a noun meaning that time (e.g., "I wanted breakfast, but then was not a good time") and as an adjective meaning at that time (e.g., "My then boyfriend was not an early riser").
Than is a conjunction used mainly in making comparisons—e.g., "My breakfast is better than yours"; "I make breakfast differently than you do."
By Necco on 03.11.20 1:28pm
Very charming, but for such a large lot it’s a shame that so much is wasted in the front, making the usable yard not that big, and what you have is overlooked.
By EastsiderOfTruth on 03.10.20 11:10am
One vintage feature that sadly wasn’t retained was the Spanish Colonial red tile roof. RIP
By lahope on 03.10.20 6:29pm
The only thing that I love about this house is that kitchen. That bathroom is hideous. Do not like that color.
By Topaz113 on 03.10.20 7:02pm
Oh, c’mon, who doesn’t love 3 mismatched greens (or is it 4 – I can’t quite tell).
By kcp1 on 03.10.20 8:59pm
stylistically a hodge podge but it gets the job done.
By LAoneWay on 03.11.20 5:25am
HLP seems like a good value still, you could buy this place for 900K and gradually make improvements as you go. After living there for a few years you would hopefully see the value and equity rise nicely. There are still lots of nice older houses in NELA that can be bought for a nice price, that can not be said for a lot of the city.
By Mr Balls on 03.11.20 9:58am
If you consider HLP a good value, according to today’s Curbed blogpiece "Should you buy a home in LA in 2020?, you are part of the problem of displacement. Additionally, things you mention like "gradually making improvements"that lead to "value and equity rise" is now VERBOTEN because it might make your neighbors rent go up. In other words, keep this house and the neighborhood shitty in order to keep rents at current levels.
Since Curbed isn’t allowing comments for that piece, I’ll do it here. The blogpiece is completely off the rails.
By Cleavon Little on 03.11.20 10:50am
Lol, you are on a roll today and I agree
By mrjim1 on 03.11.20 12:06pm
Don’t forget: "In these neighborhoods, the first test should be: Are you welcome there?"
Weird to see the extreme left take a page out of White Citizens Council’s playbook from the 1950s. Oh well, it calls to mind the old adage that the political spectrum is a circle, and the far right and far left have a lot more in common with each other than they do with those in the mainstream.
By MyrnaMinkoff on 03.11.20 2:53pm
Haha – I read that total load of crap as well. People are not stupid and can sense out an agenda that is BS. Displacement is just a rallying cry for people who want to preserve slums and segregated neighborhoods because it has allowed certain people to capitalize off of cheap rent. It was a good run while it lasted for some people but society realized that racial and economic diversity is a 2 way street and when you live in a capitalist economy individual people will capitalize. In reality poor people want to become wealthy more then they want rich people to become poor, if you don’t think this deceptive agenda for slum preserving is starting to crack just ask Bernie
By Mr Balls on 03.11.20 11:34am