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  • Built in 1925 on a parcel comprised of Lot 186 and the northerly 70 feet of Lot 185 in Tract 6388
  • Original builder and architect: Koerner & Gage (Harry G. Koerner and William J. Gage), apparently as a speculative project, and soon sold to property investor and banker Samuel Knight Rindge. He would remain at 345 until his death in 1968
  • On September 18, 1925, the Department of Buildings issued two permits to Koerner & Gage; the first authorized the construction of a two-story, 102-by-70-foot residence of 26 rooms (the latter figure is cited on subsequent permits as a more realistic 12 rooms), the second for a two-story, 40-by-34-foot garage
  • Samuel Rindge was a son of the once very rich and powerful Rhoda May Knight Rindge, famous as a Malibu firebrand and widow of Frederick Hastings Rindge. He grew up in part at his parents' 1903 house at 2263 South Harvard Boulevard in West Adams Heights (a subdivision developed in 1902 by Frederick Rindge, hence the street bearing the name of his—and his son's—east coast alma mater); he attended Los Angeles's Harvard Military School, the name of which was also derived from Harvard University, before going east to eventually graduate from Harvard itself, class of 1911. Rindge and his wife Agnes, the daughter of Southern California property developer Willits J. Hole, and their three children were moving from the spec house at 832 Lorraine Boulevard that Samuel bought from developer Luther T. Mayo not long after construction was started on it in the fall of 1919. (Willits J. Hole bought 114 Fremont Place the year that 345 South Hudson Avenue was built; after Hole died in 1936 and his wife Mary in 1938, the Rindges' elder son, attorney Samuel Hastings Rindge, occupied his grandparents' house with his wife Frances)    
  • On May 29, 1926, what was now called the Department of Building and Safety issued S. K. Rindge a permit to build a 17-by-22-foot greenhouse at 345 South Hudson; a second greenhouse measuring 18 by 28 feet was authorized on November 17, 1927. A permit issued to Rindge on February 10, 1936, pertained to the addition of a bathroom in the house
  • The Rindges' daughter Ramona married attorney Randolph Karr on October 29, 1941, the ceremony and reception taking place at 345 South Hudson Avenue
  • On August 13, 1952, the Department of Building and Safety issued Samuel K. Rindge a permit for the installation of a walk-in refrigerator in the basement of 345
  • Still living at 345 South Hudson Avenue 40 years after moving in, Agnes Hole Rindge died at the age of 75 on May 21, 1966. Samuel K. Rindge died in the house at the age of 80 on August 15, 1968 
  • It appears that the size of the parcel of 345 South Hudson grew during the ownership of Samuel Rindge with the northerly addition of Lot 187; it is unclear as to whether this lot might have been sold by Rindge's estate or by the next owner, but, in any case, 335 South Hudson was built on Lot 187 in 1971
  • Construction engineer and financier Neill B. Lawton was the owner of 345 South Hudson Avenue by 1973; if it wasn't Rindge interests or an interim owner, it would have been Lawton who spun off Lot 187. His family appears to have remained in residence at 345, its parcel now having reverted to the configuration indicated on its original 1925 building permit, until 1996
  • Advertisements appeared in the Los Angeles Times in the summer of 1996 offering 345 South Hudson Avenue for sale at an asking price of $3,195,000; by mid-December the price had been reduced 17 percent to $2,650,000
  • Actor David Schwimmer bought 345 South Hudson Avenue in 2001 for $5,500,000. In November 2011, he had the house on the market for $10,700,000; by the following April, the price had been reduced by $500,000. Reportedly taken off the market the next month, it sold in June for $8,865,000. The house was back on the market in the spring of 2014 asking $11,800,000 and sold for $11,000,000 three months later