A house designed by the storied architect Richard Neutra in Los Angeles’s Nichols Canyon is up for sale for an asking price of $5.95 million. Designed in 1962, the so-called Hendershot House was built for Robert Hendershot and his wife Harumi Taniguchi, and was later expanded by the architect’s son Dion Neutra. It was featured in the 2010 Taschen monograph Neutra. Complete Works and was restored in 2023 with an AIA|LA Emerging Practice Award–winning renovation.
According to the Compass listing for the sale, “The home represents Neutra at his most refined: ribbon windows, deep overhangs, full-height sliding glass walls, and a masterful response to a sloping canyon site sheltered by native trees and canyon plantings enjoyed from nearly every room in the house.”
The house—measuring in at 3,371 square feet over three levels—was sold previously in 2017 to architect Eve Steele, who knew Hendershot and Taniguchi. Among its attributes are four decks, floating stairs, and a flexible space that “opens through glass walls to a broad wood terrace above a rare Los Angeles natural creek and wooded arroyo”—all of which make it “as sound and presently livable as it is historically irreplaceable.”
See some highlight pictures from the Hendershot House’s Compass listing below.
