Embrace the Spirit of Old California in This Historic Hacienda and Ranch Right Outside L.A.

A 1934 hacienda-model estate in Los Angeles is searching for a new steward. The listing selling price is $10,350,000.

The home consists of a 4,796-sq.-foot principal dwelling and a 2,092-square-foot guesthouse, with 6 bedrooms and 5 baths overall. The 6.7-acre lot is positioned in West Hills in the western San Fernando Valley location. It’s about 30 miles northwest of downtown L.A.

“It turned extremely significant in movement photograph background,” suggests listing agent Mike Deasy, of Deasy Penner & Partners, about the estate. “That element of the [San Fernando Valley] was largely undeveloped, (applied) as ranch land.”

In simple fact, it was formed from an first 270-acre Spanish land grant.

Hollywood background

Franz Lederer, a film and phase actor born in Prague who later on rose to fame in Hollywood, purchased the property in the 1920s and commenced doing the job with designer John R. Litke. The estate was done in 1934 and modeled right after two California missions: Santa Ynez and San Luis Rey.

Lederer died in 2000 at the age of 100.

Known as the Franz Lederer Hacienda and Ranch, the assets even arrives with two cows. Some of the artwork will stay with the home, the listing notes.

The eye-catching estate manufactured an physical appearance in the audio video clip for OneRepublic’s “Didn’t.”

The hacienda model is anchored by a brick-paved courtyard with a fountain. The interiors function a vaulted ceiling with weighty beams, arched home windows, and 35 pairs of Spanish doorways. White-washed brick walls and friezes all over are delightful design and style throwbacks.

There are two en suite bedrooms in the most important household, alongside with a library with a Gothic-type fireplace, and a eating terrace.

Company or staff members can make use of the detached 3-bed room, two-unit guesthouse.

Restored residence

Latest restoration function incorporated retaining and preserving the exterior walls, which had been built with regional stone and historic tiles imported from Spain and Portugal, says Deasy.

In 2000, the total estate was reinforced for earthquake safety.

Detailed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument 204, it gained the distinction for its architectural, cultural, and historic significance. It’s a carefully present day home that’s however trustworthy to the spirit of Aged California.

“This is not an ordinary household and it is not as if there are a lot of hilltop ranches for sale” in the space, Deasy says. “It’s (also) a really sensible value.”