L.A. Restaurateur Is Selling His Home and Tequila Room for $7.6M

With manicured grounds poised for entertaining, an English Nation-fashion manse in the Los Angeles community of Hancock Park, seeks an adoring new operator.

Alexis Valentin Ramos, of Sotheby’s Intercontinental Realty, and Rochelle Maize, of Nourmand & Associates, are co-listing the household for $7,695,000.

The property owner is David Cooley, operator of The Abbey Food stuff & Bar in West Hollywood, a landmark LBGTQ+ establishment.

The assets sits on a .43-acre large amount. Cooley purchased the home 21 yrs ago for $1,925,000.

Tequila turret

Just after buying the residence, he embarked on a significant restoration.

The transform integrated the addition of a tequila-tasting space, tucked into a turret of the detached guesthouse and opening to the outdoors. Of study course, the up coming owner would not be obligated to hold the space as this sort of.

The tasteful estate was built in 1923 for silent-display screen actress Katherine MacDonald. Afterwards, Television star Vivian Vance lived in the spot in the 1950s whilst filming the sitcom, “I Love Lucy.”

The 5,575-square-foot layout contains 4 bedrooms and 7 baths, including a few en suite bedrooms in the key dwelling and a bedroom and bathtub in the guesthouse.

One particular bed room characteristics a personalized walk-in closet. The primary suite is anchored by these types of luxury facilities as a clawfoot tub, twin vanities, a glass-walled shower, and vaulted beams.

Advancements have been made to the principal-dwelling kitchen area, which is now stocked with large-finish appliances, an island with a second sink, and wine fridge. The space opens to the backyard, exactly where an outside kitchen area with a created-in barbecue can make al fresco entertaining a breeze.

The property involves a speakeasy-fashion lounge and screening space in close proximity to the tequila-tasting room, in which Cooley hosted an Academy Awards viewing celebration every 12 months.

Landscaped grounds

“When (Cooley) purchased the home, it was incredibly major, dim, old English,” Valentin Ramos says. “He held some of it—the stained-glass home windows, archways—to make confident the authenticity stayed with the dwelling.”

White marble in the baths lightens up the dwelling even far more, alongside with new light-weight fixtures during “to produce additional of a Hollywood Regency feel,” Valentin Ramos states.

Cooley worked with designer Chad Christopher Waterhouse to comprehend the property’s entire possible with new landscaping.

Waterhouse “transformed the grounds into whimsical English gardens,” Valentin Ramos states. “The grounds are produced for entertaining.”

An outside saltwater pool was not long ago included, far too.

In the Hancock Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, “you have to abide by a lot of policies,” Valentin Ramos claims of the spot. “The exterior of the home are not able to be touched. The inside of the home is up to the proprietor.”

And the possibility to reside in a neighborhood with these kinds of remarkable estates is unmatched.

One more rarity is the property’s measurement in this sort of a densely populated place.

“It’s tricky to find significant plenty like this in Los Angeles,” Valentin Ramos suggests. “In Hancock Park, you get a ton of bang for your buck. It is centrally situated amongst Beverly Hills and downtown L.A.”

So will move in subsequent? A celebrity with a penchant for hosting? A lover of historic residences? Or maybe each?

“It’s for a individual that enjoys to entertain,” Valentin Ramos suggests. “You could [also] transform it into a loved ones residence.”