Architects Harry Koerner and Henry Gage designed the Spanish Baroque style Beverly Hills City Hall completed in 1932 at the height of the Great Depression.
Three years after completion, Harry Koerner died of a sudden heart attack on February 27, 1935, 14 hours after being feted as the Guest of Honor at a dinner at the Victor Hugo Cafe; he was only 54 years old. William Gage continued the practice for several more years; he eventually retired and passed away on September 28, 1965 at the age of 74.
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The architects Koerner & Gage, best known for the design of the Beverly Hills City Hall (1932) designed the Mediterranean Revival style house for Samuel Knight Rindge, the developer of Malibu, which helped establish the firm's reputation. The house recently belonged to Actor David Schwimmer, best known for playing the role of Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends. The nine bedroom, 6.5 bath mansion most recently (June 2012) sold for $8,865,000. Located at 345 S. Hudson Avenue in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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Southern Colonial style residence designed as a speculative venture by architect William J. Gage in 1937. Actress Donna Reed lived here while making The Donna Reed Show. Reed is best known for her role as James Stewart's supportive wife in It's a Wonderful Life. She also won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role playing a prostitute in From Here to Eternity (1953).
The Beverly Hills-based architect began his career in partnership with Harry G. Koerner, with whom he designed the iconic Beverly Hills City Hall in 1932. After Koerner died of a sudden heart attack on February 27, 1935, just 14 hours after being the Guest of Honor at a dinner at the Victor Hugo Cafe, Gage continued the practice for a number of years, eventually retiring and passing away on September 28, 1965 at the age of 74.
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Los Angeles Historian Charles E. Fisher, on a recent visit to the house speculated that the Spanish Revival style house may be the work of Architect George Wyman, most noted for the design of the Bradbury Building. The house was built by Durex Quality Homes, a division of the F.P. Fay Company, headquartered at the Third and Hill F.P. Fay Building, where, according to Charles Fisher, George Wyman kept his office, a stone's throw from the Bradbury Building. In the process of investigating the history of the house, Fisher discovered that the house was designed by Harry G. Koerner and William J. Gage, best known for the design of the Beverly Hills City Hall in 1932. Koerner and Gage had been retained by the F. P. Fay Company to design homes for the Durex company. "The reason I thought of George Wyman was because he had designed the Downtown Los Angeles office building for the Fay Company, which was demolished a few years ago', Fisher said.
When the home was built in 1929, Durex was already a thirty-year old company founded in 1899. A 1929 sales brochure calls the home, 'The Home of Your Dreams', recalling the days of the Dons, when ranchos stretched from the mountain to the sea, when life was leisurely and the end of the day of sheep-shearing meant 'Fiesta'. (It was apparently a model home; the brochure further indicates that the house was 'staged' by the Broadway's Home Furnishing Studio).
The home became the property of the Beaton family at some point in time. William Beaton was President and Chairman of the Board of KIEV AM Radio from 1961 until his death in 1985. Beaton's two sons, Fred and Ron, took control of the station after their father's death. I purchased the home from the Beaton family in 1992 and renamed it 'La Casa Contenta' in 2010; the house is the 'Home of My Dreams.'
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Architects Harry Koerner & William Gage designed the Colonial Revival style house as a speculative venture for the Lyons Investment Company in 1925. The house is located at 804 Foothill Road in Beverly Hills, California.
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