1936 Hollywood Duplex Shows Schindler’s Modern Vision
Renowned Southern California architect Rudolf M. Schindler designed this home as the De Keyser Duplex in 1936.
An example of Schindler’s modern work, the duplex is currently being used by a single family.
The house is owned by Margaret Crawford, an architectural historian who taught at UCLA and the Southern California Institute of Architecture before her current post as a professor of architecture at the Harvard Design School in Boston; and her husband, architect Marco Cenzatti, who is a professor of urban planning at the Harvard Design School.
About this house: Perched above downtown Hollywood, the house has a kitchen, dining area, open wood-finished living room and a bedroom/office upstairs. Two other bedrooms/offices, with a separate entry, are downstairs.
Asking price: $575,000
Size: Three bedrooms and two bathrooms in about 2,000 square feet. The home is built on 6,620 square feet.
Features: There is street parking only, but the approach to the house is on a walk street north of Franklin Avenue.
Where: Hollywood
Contact: Erik Lerner and Brian Linder at Mossler, Deasy & Doe, Beverly Hills, (310) 550-3598.
