The Best of Home of the Week

The 10-bedroom Sierra Madre home was built in the late 1800s as a hotel where visitors from the East could stay while making land purchases.

A Zen-inspired garden marks the entrance of a Mar Vista home designed in the International style and surrounded by stands of bamboo.

This redesigned five bedroom, six bathroom home in the Doheny Estates community captures Southern California’s proverbial indoor-outdoor lifestyle.

Set along 38 feet of sand, this beach house makes the most of its location with floor-to-ceiling glass walls and doors facing the water.

The Michael Gantert Residence, one of the last properties designed by Case Study architect Pierre Koenig, takes full advantage of its dramatic viewpoint.

The Newhall Mansion, originally built in the 1890s, burned down three decades ago but was meticulously reconstructed. The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom home sits on 10 acres.

The four-bedroom, five-bathroom house built in 1920 for industrialist James Wigmore lists for $2,875,000.

The three-bedroom, four-bathroom house south of the Hermosa Beach Pier evokes a glass-clad lifeguard tower angled toward the water. It lists for $6.5 million.

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The sprawling home built for the former owners of Architectural Digest connects the indoors and outdoors through the extensive use of glass walls and doors.

Redone using materials from Paris and the Italian cities of Venice and Florence, this Tuscan-style house behind gates in the Beverly Hills Post Office area is surrounded by 150-year-old orange trees, avocado trees, gardens and outdoor entertaining space.

A Mediterranean Revival estate in Pomona’s Ganesha Hills built in 1930 for Cora Armour, a prominent local resident, retains the trappings of an earlier elegance.

Mature Cypresses line the driveway of a classic Italian villa in a gated community in Long Beach.

Valley View Cottage, built in 1925 for the owner of the Huntington Hotel, is one of 13 houses in the Huntington Circle community adjacent to the Langham Huntington.

A gated Pacific Palisades compound consists of a four-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guesthouse, a swimming pool and a sports court on a third of an acre.

The Sidney R. Troxell House designed by Modernist architect Richard Neutra is listed at $3.95 million.

The U-shaped concrete, steel and glass structure with 3 bedrooms and 31/2 bathrooms sits on a corner lot in Manhattan Beach’s Hill Section.

The eight-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate includes a French Normandy upper house, an A-frame and a carriage-style guesthouse above a four-car garage.

It includes five bedrooms and seven bathrooms and features wood beams, floors, built-ins and ceilings.

The restored Polin House by architect John Lautner is listed for almost $1.5 million.

The Craftsman-exterior home, with three bedrooms, four bathrooms and contemporary interiors, was designed for its previous owner, actor James Woods.

Rooms that protrude from the main structure seem to float in the air at this three-story house atop the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

The redwood-and-glass house with four bedrooms and three bathrooms is an early work of modernist Malibu architect Ed Niles, known for creating homes that connect to the outdoors and maximize the use of natural light.

Accessed by a driveway bridge, this downtown-close contemporary was constructed on a lot previously considered unbuildable because of the steep grade.

This five-structure family compound in the gated Hollister Ranch community encompasses a valley with 100-year-old oaks and spring-fed creeks.

The gated property in Long Beach’s Naples area has a seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom house, a pool, a dock and views of Alamitos Bay.

This massive gated compound was once part of the Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, which produced classified films and still photos of nuclear experiments after World War II.

The multilevel house, an L.A. historic-cultural monument, was built in 1930 by filmmaker Dorothy Arzner.

The two-story Craftsman in Long Beach is an updating of the Arts and Crafts movement.

The 7-year-old home overlooking Santa Monica Bay has marble mosaic floors, 300-year-old terra-cotta pavers from France, walnut floors and silk-covered walls.