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Historic Cultural Monument Villa in Los Angeles
Mar 4, 2021
LA Historic Cultural Monument Villa
Listed as a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument villa is new on the market at $2.4 million.
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals.com
Once home to Margaret Hamilton, the actress who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, and listed as a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument, a Los Angeles villa is new on the market at $2.4 million.

Located near Hollywood?s Sunset Strip, Courtney Villa was built by architects George J. Adams and Frank H. Harding in 1926. Later, after MGM released the The Wizard of Oz in 1939, Ms. Hamilton purchased the largest of the villas. Margaret?s 49-year film, radio and television career created a need for a Hollywood residence, although she also spent time on the East Coast. She died in 1985 at age 82 in New York.
The current owners of the townhouse are Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, an American playwright, screenwriter and comic book writer, and his husband, Barclay Stiff, Robrto?s production stage manager. The couple completely restored and updated the 3,035-square-foot townhouse in contemporary style.

Though it is part of a complex with a shared Old Hollywood pool (water not good for witches) and cabana, the home is very private with a walled-and-gated private entrance and garage, r...