A Pasadena mid-century home with a great room inside its unique triangular-shaped core is on the market for $2.999 million.
Known as “The Keochakian Residence” after its original owner, the 3,044-square-foot creation of modernist architect Allyn E. Morris has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a dumbwaiter from the kitchen to the carport.
The house went up on this 2.35-acre lot in 1969.
Public records show that the current owners bought the property, which consists of four parcels, in June 1989 for $750,000.
Sited at the end of a long winding driveway, the home is well-maintained. Views abound from almost every room in the home, including the great room’s combined living and dining area with its sunken fireplace and high ceiling. Floor-to-ceiling glass doors open to a wraparound balcony.
Off the balcony, a staircase steps down to the backyard terrace featuring a saltwater pool.
Elsewhere, there’s a mirrored gym, sauna and family room.
All the bedrooms are upstairs, including the spacious primary suite with ample walk-in closet and storage space.
Lee Cuellar of Keller Williams Realty represents the architectural property.
Morris approached architecture from training as a mechanical engineer.
Los Angeles Conservancy called him “one of Los Angeles’ lesser-known modernists, but his residential designs are among the most innovative and transcendent of any in the city.” Julius Shulman described Morris’s Silver Lake home cantilevered into the hillside as the architect’s “best work.”
A California native, Morris died in 2009 at 87.
Source: Orange County Register
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