Richard Neutra Nichols Canyon House Lists for $5.95 Million After 2023 Restoration
A Los Angeles modernist with deep architectural pedigree has returned to the market. The Hendershot House, a 1962 residence in Nichols Canyon designed by Richard Neutra (1892–1970), is asking $5.95 million, according to its Compass listing.
Built for Robert Hendershot and Harumi Taniguchi, the house was later expanded by Neutra’s son, Dion Neutra. It measures 3,371 square feet across three levels and was restored in 2023 through a renovation that received an AIA|LA Emerging Practice Award. The property was also included in the 2010 Taschen monograph Neutra. Complete Works, underscoring its place within the architect’s documented body of work.
The listing emphasizes the qualities that made Neutra’s domestic architecture so enduring: ribbon windows, deep overhangs, full-height sliding glass walls, and a plan that engages the sloping canyon site rather than resisting it. Native trees and canyon plantings frame views from nearly every room, while four decks and floating stairs extend the house’s connection to the landscape.
One of the more distinctive features is a flexible space that opens through glass walls to a broad wood terrace above a rare Los Angeles natural creek and wooded arroyo. That relationship between structure and terrain has long been central to Neutra’s reputation, and it remains the house’s most persuasive argument for preservation.
The home was sold in 2017 to architect Eve Steele, who knew Hendershot and Taniguchi. That continuity of stewardship appears to have mattered: the house is being presented not simply as a collectible address, but as a carefully maintained example of midcentury design that is still fully usable.
In a market where architect-designed homes often trade as lifestyle objects, the Hendershot House stands out for another reason. It offers a rare combination of historical clarity, recent restoration, and the kind of site-specific planning that modernist architecture at its best can still make feel quietly radical.
