Celebrity Real Estate: Louella Parson's former Northridge Home Up For Sale
Thursday, May 5, 2011
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[UPDATE February 18 2012]: Here is how the home looked back in 1952, 1959, and 1969 from Historicaerials.com. By 1969, the land was fully developed.
[UPDATE August 28 2011]: This home sold on August 26 2011 for $719,000 which was much cheaper than the original listing price. We congratulate the new buyers whoever they are on this excellent investment. If they find any historical mementos hidden in the walls, please share with us. Maybe this property can become a historical monument to give it protected status so that no one every demolishes it to prevent another property of significant Valley history from being lost.
[Original Post]
Lauren Beale at the L.A. Times Hot Property has posted that renowned Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons former home in Northridge has come onto the market. Parsons died in 1972 at the age of 91. She started as a syndicated columnist for William Randolph Hearst. According to the L.A. Times, "She held an undisputed position of power in the motion picture industry for 40 years, opening the doors on the private lives of movie people, reporting their scandals, romances, feuds, and break-ups." Sort of like the modern version of TMZ and tabloid magazines.
[UPDATE August 28 2011]: This home sold on August 26 2011 for $719,000 which was much cheaper than the original listing price. We congratulate the new buyers whoever they are on this excellent investment. If they find any historical mementos hidden in the walls, please share with us. Maybe this property can become a historical monument to give it protected status so that no one every demolishes it to prevent another property of significant Valley history from being lost.
[Original Post]
Lauren Beale at the L.A. Times Hot Property has posted that renowned Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons former home in Northridge has come onto the market. Parsons died in 1972 at the age of 91. She started as a syndicated columnist for William Randolph Hearst. According to the L.A. Times, "She held an undisputed position of power in the motion picture industry for 40 years, opening the doors on the private lives of movie people, reporting their scandals, romances, feuds, and break-ups." Sort of like the modern version of TMZ and tabloid magazines. 