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  • Built in 1964 on Lot 7 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; 368 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 of at least one of the houses being built on Rimpau, 344, indicates that Sherwin L. Barton was its designer; although the three Rimpau houses were of completely different styles, Barton might have been the designer of 368 as well as of the others (344 and 356)
  • On March 24, 1964, the Department of Building and Safety issued a permit to Fourth Rimpau Ltd. for a two-story, 4,919-square-foot house at 368 Rimpau Boulevard. A permit for a 20-by-40-foot crescent-shaped pool was issued on August 14, 1964
  • Over the years owners of 368 Rimpau Boulevard have sought to improve the house, with success possibly evident to those whose taste leans toward vague, ersatz Mediterranean architecture. A large addition was made to the north side of the second floor of 368 in 2002; a significant 2014 remodeling altered the Rimpau façade and roofline to give the building a bland roadside-Italian-restaurant look—unless it's meant to be a La Quinita motel update? In any case, it's a change that makes one appreciate the house's original kitsch


The lamentable, very dull current visage of 368 Rimpau Boulevard was created in 2014


Illustrations: Private Collection; Hilton & Hyland