3447 Primera Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90068

Authentic 1928 Spanish in Lake Hollywood Knolls, where silent film star Harry Langdon pressed his name and his handprint into the wet concrete steps on November 25, 1933, beside a carved beer stein, ten days before Prohibition ended. The signatures are still there. Set behind a walled and gated brick courtyard, mature olive trees and bougainvillea climbing an arched entry to a carved wood door set with stained glass, the home sits between the energy of Hollywood and the neighborhood charm of Studio City, private and quiet behind dual-pane windows. Inside, the living room stretches beneath dark exposed beams, anchored by a sculpted corner fireplace and a deep arched bookshelf set into the plaster. A pair of doors opens it into the sun room, vaulted and wrapped in windows on two walls, flexible as a study, a studio or a place for visiting family, with its own door to the private balcony and the primary bedroom beyond. The dining room sits between arched openings and built-in niches,...