Out over the fairways
The house sits at the end of a Hancock Park cul-de-sac, where 2nd Street meets Hudson Place, and looks out over the fairways of the Wilshire Country Club. Inside, ceilings rise to twelve and fourteen feet under custom skylights, and twelve-foot doors open the main rooms to the pool, the lawn and the citrus trees between the house and the course.
There are five bedrooms and six baths across 7,620 square feet, on 0.41 of an acre. It was built in 1980 and has since been remodeled and expanded; the listing calls it the DeHaven Villa.
Offenhauser, 1980
Bob Ray Offenhauser designed it. He trained at the USC School of Architecture, lived from 1927 to 2016 and was known for very large houses with high ceilings, and his firm, Offenhauser and Associates, designed the Botanical Center at the Huntington in San Marino. The listing calls him a master of the villa style, and the house shows it from the street: white stucco volumes under flat roofs, a front wall gone over to ivy, a paneled wood door between two urns, and a motor court behind a wooden gate.
The rooms
The front door opens into a hall that rises to a skylight. The living room runs through to three pairs of black-framed glass doors on the pool terrace, with a stone fireplace between arched niches at one end and a grand piano by the garden doors at the other.
The dining room has glass on two sides and connects to the kitchen and the family room, with a glass-walled, temperature-controlled wine room standing between them. The kitchen sits under a skylit light well, with marble counters, a marble backsplash and a marble island, and oak cabinetry that hides the appliances, the coffee station and the family-room television. A theater with a bar is down a short stair.
Two primary suites
There is a primary suite on each level, each with a walk-in closet and a spa-style bath. Upstairs, the bedroom sits under clerestory windows, its sitting room opens onto a terrace with an outdoor fireplace above the course, and the bath runs a marble vanity the length of a wall of windows, with a freestanding tub and two round mirrors hung from the ceiling in front of the glass. Downstairs, the suite has its own fireplace, bookshelves either side of the bed and doors straight onto the lawn, with a marble steam shower under skylights.
The other bedrooms each have a walk-in closet and their own bath. There is also an office with a window onto a green, a den with a fireplace and a skylight, a gym and a sauna.
The garden and the course
Outside are the pool and spa, a lawn, mature citrus, a gravel courtyard of raised beds around a dragon tree, and an outdoor kitchen beside the dining room. The course past the fence was laid out by Norman Macbeth for the Wilshire Country Club, founded in 1919, with a barranca running through it.
The property may also be bought with 5180 2nd Street, which the listing offers as room for a tennis court or a larger compound.
