Richard Neutra’s Logar House in Granada Hills Hits the Market

Another Richard Neutra-designed San Fernando Valley property has surfaced, this time in the hills of Granada Hills at 17728 Ridgeway Road. Known as the James F. and Olive Logar House, the home is currently listed on Redfin and is one of those rare Valley properties where real estate, architecture, and local history all overlap.

The home was designed by legendary modernist architect Richard Neutra, one of the most important names in Southern California residential architecture. The Neutra Institute identifies the project as the James F. and Olive Logar House, built in 1950–1951 in Granada Hills for James and Olive Logar. The Institute notes that Olive Logar once described the home as “a beautiful little ship at anchor,” which feels like the perfect description for a hillside modernist home designed to sit lightly in the landscape.

According to the current listing, the property has 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, and approximately 2,032 square feet on a large hillside lot of roughly 30,000 square feet. Redfin’s sale history shows the home last sold on July 27, 2010 for $850,000, and it is now back on the market at a much higher price point. The listing also already shows a price reduction: it was originally listed on May 4, 2026 for $1,999,000, then changed on June 2, 2026 to $1,875,000, a drop of $124,000.

One of the more charming older references to the house came from Giga Granada Hills in a 2009 post titled “Plain Folks In A Celebrity House.” That post described the Logars as everyday people living peacefully in what had become a celebrity-level architectural house. It is a nice reminder that before the home became a real estate listing, a preservation topic, or a Neutra landmark, it was simply a family home built for James and Olive Logar.

The big question today is originality. No current interior photo set appears to be available in the public listing materials I reviewed, so it is difficult to know exactly how much original Neutra detail remains inside today. However, the last time interior images were publicly visible around the 2010 sale period, the house appeared to retain a significant amount of original character. Based on that earlier look, it is possible that much of the interior character may still remain, especially if no major remodel occurred since then. But without current interior photographs, that remains an educated guess rather than a confirmed fact.

The Logars and Granada Hills Modernism

The Logar House is not the only Granada Hills property connected to the Logar family and Richard Neutra.

In my earlier post, Richard Neutra In The San Fernando Valley, I also noted the Logar Store at 17702 Chatsworth Street in Granada Hills. That building was listed as a Neutra project designed with Robert E. Alexander in 1955 for the Logars, the same family connected to the Ridgeway Road residence. At the time of that earlier post, the building was operating as Safeway Liquor, and it is still commonly associated with that use today.

That makes Granada Hills a surprisingly rich little pocket of Neutra/Logar history. On one hand, there is the hillside residence on Ridgeway Road, designed as a private modernist home. On the other, there is the commercial Logar Store on Chatsworth Street, a more everyday neighborhood building that appears to have survived under a completely different use.

The contrast is what makes the story interesting. Neutra’s Valley work was not limited to showpiece houses in secluded hillsides. It also included commercial buildings, institutional projects, apartments, and lesser-known structures woven into the everyday fabric of the San Fernando Valley.

Richard Neutra in the San Fernando Valley

This is not the first time Neutra has appeared on this blog. Back in 2012, I posted a broader roundup, Richard Neutra In The San Fernando Valley, which listed Neutra-designed buildings and homes across the Valley.

Some other Neutra-related posts from this blog include:

BTTF# 16: Josef Von Sternberg House by Richard Neutra, the demolished Northridge masterpiece later owned by Ayn Rand.
Richard Neutra Designed Stone-Fisher Speculative Platform Home, a dramatic hillside modernist project near Sherman Oaks / Bel Air.
Neutra Designed Stone-Fisher Speculative Platform Home Update, a follow-up look at the same platform home.
Library and Fine Arts Building at CSUN Postcard, a postcard look at the former Neutra-designed Fine Arts building at CSUN.
The Milton Goldman Residence in Encino Designed by Richard Neutra, another major Valley Neutra residence.
Dion Neutra’s Scheimer House in Tarzana Hits the Market For the First Time, a Valley property connected to Richard Neutra’s son, Dion Neutra.

Taken together, these properties show how deeply modernist architecture is woven into the San Fernando Valley’s development story. Neutra’s work was not limited to the famous Case Study House world or the Westside architectural circuit. His designs reached into Valley neighborhoods, hillside lots, commercial corridors, school campuses, and suburban residential pockets.

A Granada Hills Modernist Survivor

The Logar House is especially notable because Granada Hills is more commonly associated with Eichler homes, ranch houses, postwar subdivisions, and hillside custom homes. A Neutra-designed residence in this part of the Valley adds another layer to the neighborhood’s architectural identity.

The current listing presents the home as a rare surviving Neutra property in the North San Fernando Valley. HistoricPlacesLA also identifies the property as mid-century modern residential architecture by master architect Richard Neutra, which strengthens its importance as part of the Valley’s architectural record.

What happens next will be worth watching. Will it go to a preservation-minded owner, an architecture collector, an investor, or someone simply looking for a dramatic hillside property with views? Without current interior photos, it is difficult to know how much original material remains, but the house’s pedigree alone makes it significant.

Between the Logar House on Ridgeway Road and the Logar Store on Chatsworth Street, Granada Hills has a deeper Richard Neutra connection than many people may realize. These buildings remind us that the San Fernando Valley is not just a place of freeways, strip malls, movie locations, and suburban tract homes. It is also home to serious modernist history hiding in plain sight.

And in this case, that history sits high in Granada Hills, anchored by a Neutra-designed home that last sold for $850,000 in 2010 and is now looking for its next chapter.