456 N Ridgewood Place

A 1927 Spanish Colonial on one of the good Ridgewood blocks, restored without being erased.

Ridgewood Place between Beverly and Third is the block people wait for. This 1927 Spanish Colonial has been in two families, and the second spent four years bringing it back — original tile relaid, plaster repaired by hand, and the arched loggia opened up again after a 1970s enclosure was removed.

The public rooms are intact: barrel-vaulted living room with the original fireplace, a dining room with its ironwork, and a library that was once a sleeping porch. The kitchen and baths are new but quiet about it.

Behind the house, a walled courtyard with an eighty-year-old olive at its centre, and a detached garage with a permitted studio above.

Features

• Original 1927 tile and plaster
• Barrel-vaulted living room
• Walled courtyard
• Permitted studio above garage
• New systems throughout
• Restored arched loggia
• Library with sleeping porch windows
• Mature olive and citrus
• Two blocks from Larchmont
• HPOZ-compliant restoration

The neighborhood

Hancock Park is the flat, tree-lined grid between Melrose and Wilshire — Larchmont Village at one end, and the only neighbourhood in central Los Angeles where the houses are older than the city's freeways.

Square footage and lot size are taken from public record and the owner's plans. Buyers should verify all figures independently.