Six years ago, Uber founder Garrett Camp and his longtime partner Eliza Nguyen paid a then-neighborhood record $72.5 million for a house in Trousdale Estates, one of the wealthiest pockets of Beverly Hills. While Camp continues to live in that mansion, and we have no knowledge of the couple’s current relationship status, we do know Nguyen was the buyer who recently acquired a historic property on one of Los Feliz’s premier streets.
Built in the late 1920s, the frequently published Spanish Colonial Revival-style house retains “90% of its original features and details,” per its marketing spread, and has been carefully maintained by all the many Tinseltowners who’ve called it home.
And as you might expect from a stylish, 100-year-old house that sits less than two miles north of Hollywood, this place has seen plenty of famous faces pass through its rotunda entryway. In recent times, those faces have included actress Olivia Wilde, who owned the house from 2011 to 2013, and Brian Henson, son of “Muppets” creator Jim Henson, who owned it in the 1990s. Reportedly, both Natalie Portman and Joe Jonas were also tenants here at one time or another.
But this time, it was businessman Jeff Boutelle who sold the place for about $4.4 million to Nguyen. That’s a bit less than the $4.8 million the Pharmavite CEO had sought, but still comfortably above the $3 million he’d forked over to acquire the property eight years ago.
Sited near the end of a mansion-lined cul-de-sac, the house is much more graceful than it is imposing, and it even appears small from the street. There’s not much of a front yard, as the steep hillside property necessitates the structure itself is sited rather hard up on the road, though there are walls and gates for privacy and security. There’s also a slim terracotta courtyard behind those walls, where you’ll find a built-in BBQ and an olive tree-shaded lounging area.
The rotunda entry features rich wood ceilings above and beautiful tile floors underfoot; directly beyond is a wrought iron stairway leading to a lower floor of the home, which presents itself as a single-story affair from the street but drops down mullet-style to two full floors out back.
On the main level, the public rooms include a step-down living room with an original fireplace and a breezy kitchen that connects to the front courtyard. With its glossy subway tile backsplash, stone countertops and imported La Cornue range, the renovated kitchen is the home’s most obvious nod to modern design.
The 3,300-square-foot residence also packs in four bedrooms and four baths, each one with walls dressed in differing paint colors. Other creature features include a stained-glass window, intricate wrought iron detailing, a fireside study, and a bar-equipped screening room.
While the quarter-acre lot isn’t particularly big, it is fully landscaped and nicely terraced with manicured boxwoods and ivy. Meandering stone pathways maneuver their way past grassy lawns, a spa, and al fresco patios with views of the Downtown L.A. skyline.
Some of Nguyen’s new neighbors include actress Marion Cotillard, who owns a house on the same cul-de-sac, and singer Carly Rae Jepson, who lives in the house immediately behind Nguyen’s. Also within sugar-borrowing distance are the Los Feliz retreats of Bill Burr, Kristen Stewart, and Brad Pitt.
This isn’t the first time Nguyen and/or Camp has acquired a particularly stylish, architecture-forward house; back in 2016, the couple paid $6.1 million for a Hal Levitt-designed midcentury modern gem directly north of West Hollywood.
As far as we know, that gated Hollywood Hills spread has been unoccupied for the last few years, though property records reveal Camp continues to own it. When one is worth $5.6 billion—per Forbes—one can afford to maintain an unused spare house or two.
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