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  • Built in 1964 on Lot 6 in Tract 5640
  • Original commissioner: Fourth Rimpau Ltd., which appears appears to have been the ownership arm of the Bell Construction Company of Los Angeles
  • Architect: None indicated on the original building permit; 356 Rimpau was part of a three-house development built by Fourth Rimpau Ltd. on three Rimpau-facing lots that until 1962 were part of the Merritt Adamson property, on which that family had built 355 Muirfield Road in 1922. The original permit for least one of the houses being built on Rimpau in 1964, 344, indicates its designer as Sherwin L. Barton. Although the three Rimpau houses were of completely different styles, it is possible that Barton was the designer of 356 as well as of the others (344 and 368)
  • On March 24, 1964, the Department of Building and Safety issued a permit to Fourth Rimpau Ltd. for a two-story residence in what has come to be called the "Hollywood Regency" style
  • Of the three disparate designs rendered in a row along Rimpau Boulevard by Fourth Rimpau Ltd. in 1964, the loss of the charming Havana-villa-style 344 to the north of 356 is lamentable, though its recent replacement is a lovely addition to the streetscape. While the new 344 is a design-do, the third Fourth Rimpau house at 368 is a design-don't, never pretty and now remodeled into a stucco motel. This leaves the Hollywood Regency–style 356 Rimpau, which, while definitely kitschy, remains an example of a type that has gained its place in the Los Angeles domestic-architecture vernacular



Illustration: Private Collection