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We forget that houses are emotional places, each with its own stories, echoes and ghosts. We forget, but Here in Van Nuys doesn’t. Take three minutes and read this wonderfully sad little essay about the doomed house at 4107 Troost.

Doomed? Here’s why: ‘It is so old (71 years) that it was already there to witness the devastating February 1938 flood that killed 115 people and destroyed over 5,600 homes....There is a sentimentality, emotionalism and fantasy life to many old homes in this old section of the San Fernando Valley. They are survivors of a time when horses and orange groves briefly lived next to automobiles and movie palaces.... (here comes the sad part) But this property, like so many around it, will fall into the hands of the bulldozer and be subdivided into five lots of ostentatious and cheap ugliness. Hummers will sit behind electronic gates under the glare of halogen. Another corner of this city will be forever changed.’

The home is listed here for $1.099 million. Here’s what the listing says: ‘BRING YOUR DEVELOPERS, CONTRACTORS AND VISION SEEKERS.’

Comments? Go ahead, get emotional.
Photo Credit: Here in Van Nuys