Richard Neutra’s Secretary’s Home, Tujunga, LA Real Estate, US Hilltop Residence, Californian Property Photos
Richard Neutra’s Secretary’s Home in LA Los Angeles
Mar 8, 2022
Hilltop Home For Sale
Richard Neutra designed iconic homes, including one for his secretary! Seventy years later it lists for $9.8 Million
Location: Tujunga, Los Angeles, California, USA

photos: Cameron Carothers
Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals
Richard Neutra was one of America?s most important modern architects from the 1920s to the 1960s designing famous homes such as the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs for Edgar J. Kaufmann (who also commissioned Fallingwater in Pennsylvania), the Julian Bond House in San Diego, and the Kronish House in Beverly Hills.
At the height of his career in 1953, Neutra designed a home for his secretary, Dorothy Serulnic. A classic Southern California contemporary design, in the 1950s and ?60s, Neutra?s futuristic style was copied by builders across the United States who were leading the post World War II migration to the new suburbs. His secretary?s home is now for sale as part of a contemporary complex of two homes and a guest cabin, at an executive-level price of $9.799 million.

Neutra was born in Austria in 1892 and emigrated to the US in the 1920s where he worked briefly for Frank Lloyd Wright and later established his own company. His work was exhibited at the seminal 1932 modernist exhibition at LA?s MoMA and was part of the architecture...