“In this town, the rare find isn’t the house that’s been redone. It’s the one nobody got around to redoing.”
- Claire O'Connor
309
S Plymouth Blvd
Los Angeles
Bedrooms
5
Bathrooms
6
Total Area
5,400 Sq. FT
Lot Size
12,632 Sq. FT
Price
$7,700,000
A Century In, Still Itself
The estate went up in Windsor Square in 1923, commissioned by Mabel Chappellet, widow of oil man Felix Chappellet, who hired architect Robert D. Jones, with Sanson M. Cooper acting as contractor. Then she did the single most valuable thing an original owner can do: she stayed for nearly half a century. That long, unhurried tenure is the reason the place still reads the way it did the year it was finished, not restored back to period, just never taken away from it. It arrives as something Los Angeles almost never offers anymore, a hundred-year-old Country English with its first draft fully intact.
Listed by John Kostrey and Jennifer Eckert, Nourmand & Associates
Inside
Craftsmanship here isn’t a finish layer, it’s the structure. The formal living room turns on a fireplace framed in original-era tilework, and the staircase settles the whole argument about pedigree, a magnificent original bannister and millwork of a kind no modern shop quotes on a deadline. Peg-and-groove hardwood, Saltillo-style tile, deep wainscoting, and original paneling carry through the main floor, where the formal dining room opens to the kitchen and a sunlit breakfast room, alongside a family room and a bar area built for a house that expected company. Upstairs, three secondary bedrooms orbit a primary suite built as a genuine retreat, complete with walk-in closet and built-in banquette seating. The best room is the one you’d least expect to work this hard: a rear office and library with a clean sightline to the Hollywood Sign, framed, apparently, by someone who thought about it a hundred years before it became a cliché.
Outside
The grounds play like a country estate that wandered into the middle of the city and decided to stay. Mature landscaping and broad lawns frame a sparkling pool at the center of the yard, with a large covered patio for the kind of dinner that outlasts the reservation it replaced. The house keeps finding ways to send you back outdoors: a private balcony off one of the front bedrooms, and a dramatic terrace off the staircase landing that works as a full open-air room with the Hollywood Hills stretched out beyond it. A detached garage sits ready to become whatever the next owner needs least predictably, whether gym, screening room, studio, or office. And Larchmont Boulevard is close enough that its cafes, restaurants, and weekly farmers’ market function less like a destination and more like an extension of the property.
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Proof is in the Properties
SOLD
Closed $200K over asking
SOLD
Closed for $1,589/sq ft
SOLD
Closed $250k over asking
