1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
1242 W Oceanfront, Newport Beach, CA 92661
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$ 18,800,000
Est. payment | /mo

4 Beds

4 Baths

2,741 SqFt


$ 18,800,000
Est. payment | /mo

4 Beds

4 Baths

2,741 SqFt

Key Details

Property Type Manufactured Home

Sub Type Manufactured Home

Listing Status Active

Purchase Type For Sale

Square Footage 2,741 sqft

Price per Sqft $6,858

Subdivision Balboa Peninsula (Residential) (

MLS Listing ID NP26242697

Style Modern

Bedrooms 4

Full Baths 4

Year Built 1926

Lot Size 3,734 Sqft

Property Sub-Type Manufactured Home

Property Description

The Philip and Leah Lovell Beach House, R.M. Schindler (1926). One of the defining masterpieces of early California modernism, offered for the first time on the centenary of its completion. Widely recognized as Schindler's second most important work (Steele, 2005), the Lovell Beach House has served for the last 100 years as the Lovell familys personal oceanfront retreat. Now it seeks a steward who can enjoy and enrich the playful mood of beach life that Schindler sought to conjure up. When client and architect met in the early 1920s, Dr. Philip Lovell was a prominent naturopath; Schindler, born in Vienna, had come to Southern California to supervise Frank Lloyd Wrights projects in the region. For the young architect, Lovells corner lot on Balboa Peninsula would become a laboratory of radical innovation. Inspired by the pile structure indigenous to all beaches, Schindler lifted the house above the shore on five reinforced-concrete frames, each cast in the shape of a squared figure eight. The idea was to assure an unobstructed outlook to the ocean, he wrote, with enough privacy for an informal life behind open windows. Both windows and walls hang on steel rods from Schindlers concrete skeleton. From street level with its garage, its enclosed studio and its garden facing the surf two stairways rise toward the heart of the house: a double-height living and dining room fronted by floor-to-ceiling glass, its volume bisected by a cantilevered balcony running the length of the space. Four bedrooms open off the suspended balcony, boasting views of sea and sand. Throughout, expansi

Location

State CA

County Orange

Direction Balboa to 13th Street head Southwest to the Oceanfront

Interior

Interior Features Balcony, Beamed Ceilings, Dry Bar, Living Room Balcony, Living Room Deck Attached, Tile Counters, Trash Chute

Heating Forced Air Unit

Flooring Carpet, Laminate, Wood

Fireplaces Type FP in Living Room, Bonus Room, Gas, Great Room

Fireplace No

Appliance Disposal, Electric Oven

Laundry Gas & Electric Dryer HU

Exterior

Parking Features Direct Garage Access, Garage - Single Door

Garage Spaces 2.0

Fence Stucco Wall, Wood

Utilities Available Electricity Available, Natural Gas Connected, Phone Available, Sewer Connected, Water Connected

View Y/N Yes

Water Access Desc Public

View Bay, Mountains/Hills, Ocean, Water, Catalina, Coastline, Harbor, Neighborhood, City Lights

Roof Type Rolled/Hot Mop,Membrane

Accessibility See Remarks

Porch Deck, Enclosed, Concrete, Roof Top

Total Parking Spaces 2

Building

Story 3

Sewer Public Sewer

Water Public

Level or Stories 3

Others

Senior Community No

Tax ID 04724124

Acceptable Financing Cash, Conventional, Cash To New Loan

Listing Terms Cash, Conventional, Cash To New Loan

Special Listing Condition Standard

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Listed by Todd Bousman, DRE#01505371 bouHAUS Properties 
Co-listed byNON LISTED OFFICE

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