“Treetops in every window, dinner ten minutes downhill. Highland Park does not usually hand you both.”
- Claire O'Connor
232
La Follette Dr
Los Angeles
Bedrooms
3
Bathrooms
2
Total Area
1,531 Sq. FT
Lot Size
4,707 Sq. FT
Price
$1,350,000
Above It All, Ten Minutes From It
Highland Park is loud in the good way at the bottom and quiet in a completely different way a couple hundred feet up. Mt. Angelus is where the second part happens. The streets were cut to follow the grade instead of a grid, stairways pick up where the pavement gives out, and none of the houses were built to agree with one another. This one went up in 1940, partway along, at the point on the hill where Figueroa is audible on a Friday and never unavoidable. Up here you learn the shortcuts on foot or you do not learn them.
Listed by: Sara Lov, Maison Real Estate
Inside
Small houses give away their planning faster than large ones do, and this plan holds. The living room takes the best of it, wide by 1940 hillside standards, with a decorative fireplace anchoring one end and the windows handling everything else. Views run through most of the house, treetops close in and the city set well behind them, so the rooms carry themselves like more than 1,531 square feet. The 2023 refresh was systems work rather than styling: electrical, HVAC, copper plumbing, paint, and then the discipline to stop. Below the main floor, the basement has been serving as a workspace, which is the room half this neighborhood is quietly hunting for.
Outside
The yard is what remains of a 4,707 square foot lot after the house, planted with natives that ask for almost nothing and look correct on a hillside that never wanted to be a lawn. It is built for duration rather than scale: a table that stays set through the afternoon, a spot to sit while the light goes orange on the hills opposite, an evening that runs long because nobody has to drive home from it. The two-car garage is a real asset on a street this steep, where houses of this vintage usually offer a slab and an apology. Everything else is downhill, including coffee, dinner, the farmers market, and the Arroyo Seco library and park.
The O' Factor
In Los Angeles, proximity is normally paid for in noise and quiet is normally paid for in driving. That is the standing trade, and most houses sit plainly on one side of it. Mt. Angelus is one of the few places in the city that declines the choice, and the reason is topography rather than luck. A couple hundred vertical feet takes the traffic out of the air. A ten minute walk downhill puts all of it back within reach. The tax here is the hill, which happens to be the only version of that tax that pays anything back: the trees, the long view, the stairways, neighbors who pass each other on foot instead of through glass. It is a house for someone who wants to be near the whole thing without living inside it.
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