For old Hollywood-area houses, I always liked this one, on Harvard at Loma Linda (one block north of Hollywood Blvd). It looks so grand sitting on its plinth. It got rather uncared-for and spooky looking at one point, but has been bought back. It's just down from one of the Zwebell complexes, Casa Laguna, on Franklin, where a friend lived for 20 years and down and across from private Laughlin Park, where another friend lives now in Jack Dempsey's old house. (Driving around Laughlin Park makes the decades melt away for sure.)
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One block down and one to the east, at Hollywood and North Kingsley Dr, is this wonderful shopping/apartment complex
(It must have been really beautiful pre the jumble of signage):
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The apartments upstairs share a roof terrace:
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I don't stop there at night though. (Too put off by the crack house across the street.)