An open house all year
Anchoring a double lot in West Hollywood, this sharp contemporary home makes a statement with afire-lined walkway leading up to the front door. Styled living spaces take cues from California’s fairweather climate with pocketing glass doors in nearly every room that open to the outdoors.

A long way from that Boston bar
The Italianate villa-style home was built for restaurateur and hotelier Victor Hugo Aleidis, whose Victor Hugo restaurant in downtown Los Angeles was a popular destination during the 1920s and ’30s. The grand residence cost $75,000 to build over a seven-year period and was completed in 1931.

Clearer view of old windows
But with soulful age come other sounds: rattles, wind whistling through gaps and a homeowner’s curses because the blasted contraptions won’t open and close properly. Byroads and other master carpenters specialize in repairing historic wood windows to avoid the torment of every preservationist: vinyl replacement windows.

Bungalow brims with Hollywood cachet
While headlines of the day were heralding the sinking of the Titanic and the election of Woodrow Wilson as U.S. president, C.S. Albright was creating this archetypal Craftsman in the Hollywood Hills. The architect would become known for designing many of the Hollywoodland development’s early houses.

A welcoming, small-town vibe
After a brief flurry of development — the vast majority of which occurred in the San Fernando Road corridor — the boom went bust in the 1890s. The western portion of Pacoima in particular saw very little residential construction throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Where good vibrations freely flow
“I like instruments that are intuitive and draw me into my body and inner rhythm when I get heady. Anyone can hit a drum — you don’t need to know chords,” said the actress, who stars in ABC’s “The Rookie,” Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico” and Showtime’s “Ray Donovan” this fall.