Frank Lloyd Wright Jr.'s Storied Novarro House Gets Price Drop

LOS ANGELES, CA — The landmark Samuel Novarro House is one of those rare houses where you can identify the architect simply by looking at it. It's a Frank Lloyd Wright Jr. house.

The Mayan-inspired Art Deco home is a Historic Cultural Monument known as the Samuel Novarro House.

Fittingly, the famous home by LA's most famous architect has always been magnet for the rich and famous from Leonard Bernstein to Diane Keaton, Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Christina Ricci, according to LA Curbed. However, it was most famously home to silent film legend and "Ben Hur" star Ramon Novarro. Hollywood's original Latin lover lived in the home after he found out his manager Louis Samuel, who commissioned the house, had been embezzling from him. As part of a discreet settlement, Novarro took over the house. Now their names are forever linked because the home is named for both of them.

The landmark home has been restored and placed on an off the market frequently in recent years. Last sold in 2014, the landmark home got a price drop of $100,000 in August.

• Address: 2255 Verde Oak Dr, Los Angeles, California
• Price: $4,195,000
• Square Feet: 2690
• Bedrooms: 3
• Bathrooms: 4 Baths
• Built: 1928
• Features: One of the most magical and extraordinary houses in L.A. Come see this rebranded triumph of elegant, stylish and important 1930's era architecture. A compound of classic design purity, with stunning gardens, loggia, pool and views. With multiple movie star and art world prior owners, the look of the home is modern and bright: a tasteful oasis of serene rooms celebrating the quality of life. No wonder it is LA Historic-Cultural Monument #130.Lloyd Wright (son and collaborator of Frank) was commissioned in 1928 to design a home-to-impress for talent agent Louis Samuel, who sold it to movie star heart-throb Ramon Navarro. In 1931 Navarro brought Wright back to give the home even more screen-idol magic by adding a music room, pergola and walled garden. This is an exceptionally livable, private piece of top tier architecture, in the star studded Los Feliz Oaks. Come see it, you will fall in love.

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