A Historic Hacienda

While it has a celebrity-studded chain of title, this house’s real claim to fame is that it is one of the few 1930s adobe-style Mexican haciendas built in the L.A. area.

About this house: Built in 1936 for cowboy movie star Tom Mix, the house was later owned by character actor George Tobias (who played neighbor Abner Kravitz on the TV sitcom “Bewitched,” 1964-1972), and then it was owned by Nancy Meyer and Charles Schyer, who co-wrote the 1990 and 1995 “Father of the Bride” movies starring Steve Martin. A surgeon and his wife are the current owners; they plan to build a new home.

Asking price: $2.25 million

Size: Five bedrooms, six baths in about 7,000 square feet

Features: The main house, which is U-shaped, has a west-facing hacienda portico and is built around a central courtyard of used brick. The home has a formal dining room, a family room, a master suite that resembles a chapel, sandblasted beamed ceilings, smooth plaster walls, hand-carved, 150- to 200-year-old doors from Mexico and antique floor tiles, also from Mexico.

The gated and walled property also has stables, tack rooms, a barn, a wine cellar, mini hacienda-style guest house, an outdoor kitchen built by Tobias, large, flat lawns, gardens and a pool.

Where: The house is on about half an acre on South Stansbury Avenue, which has a canopy of jacarandas in bloom with purple flowers in the spring. The house is south of Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks.

Listing agent: Rick Chimienti of DBL Estates, Beverly Hills; (310) 275-8686

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Ruth Ryon can be e-mailed with candidates for Home of the Week at ruth.ryon@latimes.com.