The Spanish homes on Nottingham Avenue sit above Los Feliz Boulevard in Los Feliz, Los Angeles. The Los Feliz Improvement Association lists 43 addresses on the street, 23 built between 1923 and 1930, and records 14 of those 23 as Spanish Colonial Revival. The survey names an architect for 17, including Wallace Neff at 2520 Nottingham Avenue.
Twenty-three houses from 1923 to 1930, fourteen of them Spanish Colonial Revival, and the architects the record puts behind them.
Nottingham Avenue runs north from Los Feliz Boulevard into the hills above it. The Los Feliz Improvement Association's survey lists 43 addresses on the street, and 23 of them went up in the eight years from 1923 to 1930, when Los Feliz filled with Spanish Colonial Revival houses. Most of those houses have an architect's name attached in the survey, and a few carry a published source from the year the house was built. Debbie Pisaro, a Los Feliz realtor, has set out what the record supports at each address and what it only claims.
Where is Nottingham Avenue in Los Feliz?
Nottingham Avenue runs north from Los Feliz Boulevard in the 90027 ZIP code, in the part of Los Feliz people call above the Blvd. Address numbers start at 2203 near the boulevard and continue past 2675, with Chislehurst meeting the street near the 2500 block.
Los Feliz repeats street names, and Nottingham does it too. There is a Nottingham Place, and the survey files it separately, so an address search should confirm which street a house is on. This guide covers the Avenue. For a street on the other side of the boulevard, Ben Lomond Place is the one Debbie has written up, and the Los Feliz Spanish homes guide covers the designated Spanish houses across the neighborhood.
Who designed the Spanish Colonial houses on Nottingham Avenue?
The Los Feliz Improvement Association names an architect for 17 of the 23 houses built on Nottingham Avenue between 1923 and 1930, including Wallace Neff at 2520, Gordon B. Kaufmann at 2612, C. J. Smale at 2231 and 2309, and W. C. Tanner at 2324 and 2618. Two of the attributions cite trade publications from 1927.
The names come with different weights. At 2520, the survey credits Wallace Neff, cites Pacific Coast Architect, September 1927, page 24, and calls the house the first home of Norman and Dorothy Buffum Chandler. It also lists the house as a potential Historic-Cultural Landmark, and the survey's own page for 2520 is worth reading beside this guide. Neff also designed the Petitfils Residence, HCM #916, built in 1926, which Debbie has written up on this site.
At 2349, the survey names Floyd Mueller as architect and quotes a builders' journal item from July 1, 1927, reporting that Andrew Budgear would finance a 12-room Italian style residence for himself. The survey files the house as Spanish Colonial Revival, so the two descriptions sit side by side in the record. It also says Harry Chandler's daughter Ruth and her husband, Fredrick Williamson, lived at 2349 in the late 1920s and early 1930s, citing Doug Goodan. See the survey's page for 2349.
At 2424 the record has three names for one house. The survey lists E. V. Conroy and Curt Dixon Anderson, and a third attribution to Carleton M. Winslow that traces to a real estate agent's statement. A January 18, 1924 trade journal item, also quoted by the survey, reports A. I. Root building a home designed by Winslow on Nottingham Road, and the survey adds that this may refer to 2424. That is a lead and not a confirmation. The survey's page for 2424 carries all three.
Some architects appear more than once. C. J. Smale is credited at both 2231 and 2309, each recorded as Mediterranean Revival. The Tanner name appears at 2308 as Tanner & Wyckoff, at 2324 as W. C. Tanner with Chester A. Williams, and at 2618 as W. C. Tanner, three houses on one street. At 2612 the survey credits Gordon B. Kaufmann for a 1927 house it calls French Tudor and says was the home of the actor Adolphe Menjou, and the 1930 census entry it transcribes lists Menjou as owner and head of household.
Six of the 23 have no architect named in the survey at all: 2223, 2311, 2340, 2400, 2508, and 2580. Those are the houses where a permit search or a family's papers would add the most.
How do you spot a Spanish Colonial Revival house on Nottingham Avenue?
Look for three details: a courtyard turned away from the street, a deep-set window, and a stair tucked behind an arch. Debbie Pisaro has been inside a few hundred Spanish houses in Los Angeles and reads them by those three, which is how she sorts a Spanish Colonial Revival house from the Mediterranean Revival and English houses beside it.
On Nottingham the sorting matters, because the survey records four Mediterranean Revival houses, four English or Tudor houses, and one French Provincial house among the 23. The style tags in this guide are the survey's. The assessor's records and the survey do not always agree, and the material that follows a house from owner to owner sometimes calls a Spanish house Mediterranean. The Los Angeles house styles guide sets the styles side by side, and the Spanish Colonial Revival guide for California places Spanish Colonial Revival in the wider California picture.
A Spanish house on this street is also a hillside house above the Boulevard, and that changes what a buyer has to look at. The lots on the prewar houses in the county assessor's records run from about 11,000 to about 27,000 square feet. The Los Feliz guide and the best real estate agent in Los Feliz page cover the hillside questions that come with them.
Who lived on Nottingham Avenue in the 1920s and 1930s?
The survey and its sources place Elmer Ralphs of Ralphs Grocery at 2401 in 1930, the costume designer Travis Banton at 2540 in the early 1930s, the actor Adolphe Menjou at 2612, and Rodney Pantages, whom the survey ties to the Pantages Theater, at 2423, and Roland J. McKinney, director of the Los Angeles County Museum, at 2311 in 1940.
The record is strongest where it cites a document. At 2401, the survey quotes a 1929 Los Angeles Directory entry and says Elmer Ralphs moved into the newly built house in 1930, with Russell Collins as architect. At 2540, the survey names the house for Travis Banton, lists it as a 1932 Spanish Colonial Revival and a potential Historic-Cultural Monument, and cites both a 1932 to 1933 Who's Who in Los Angeles County and an April 1996 Architectural Digest feature. The survey's page for 2540 has the full entry.
At 2311, a 1923 Tudor Revival, the survey says Roland J. McKinney lived there in 1940. He directed the Baltimore Museum of Art from 1929 to 1937 and the Los Angeles County Museum from 1937 to 1946. At 2408, the survey names Alvin N. Dunn of Dunn-Edwards Paint as an owner and adds that Hal Roach also owned the house, on the recollection of an owner in 1996. That last line rests on one owner's recollection, so it is a lead and not a record. At 2423, a 1934 house the survey credits to Paul R. Williams, the original owner was Rodney Pantages, and the survey lists it as a potential Historic-Cultural Landmark. Williams's designated work in the neighborhood, the Blackburn Residence, is on this site too.
The survey marks five Nottingham Avenue houses as potential monuments. Potential is not designation. HCM designation in Los Angeles does not freeze a home in place. It restricts exterior alterations and offers Mills Act tax benefits to qualifying owners, and interior renovations are generally permitted. The HCM designation and home value guide and the Mills Act guide explain how it works.
What came after the Spanish houses on Nottingham Avenue?
Nottingham Avenue kept building after 1930, and the styles changed. The survey lists eight houses from 1932 to 1940, including a Spanish Colonial Revival house from 1932 at 2540, a Paul R. Williams house from 1934 at 2423, and Tudor, Colonial Revival, Georgian, and French Provincial houses from 1934 to 1940. Twelve more date from 1950 to 1997.
The 1940 houses include 2501, credited to Harry Hayden Whiteley, and 2439, a French Provincial credited to Ray J. Kieffer. Debbie's own read is that the forties were not the street's great decade. The houses that arrived then are plainer, and the Spanish years were over. That is an observation about a stretch of years and not a verdict on any house or any owner, and the survey's records for these addresses are as careful as its records for the older ones.
Every prewar house on Nottingham Avenue, by year
Every style tag and architect in the table is the Los Feliz Improvement Association's. Addresses are North Nottingham Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027.
Debbie Pisaro is not the listing agent for any home named on this page. Debbie represents buyers on architectural and period-revival homes across Los Angeles, regardless of who holds a given listing, the same standing practice whether a home is on or off market. Coastline 840 is a boutique California practice, and it is a brand of Side, Inc., CA DRE #02014153, the responsible broker. Read the Los Feliz agent guide and the two founding pieces, why Coastline 840 was built and why boutique teams outperform, for how the practice works. Many of the homes Debbie sells trade quietly, and the off-market homes page shows how that access runs.
For anyone comparing streets, the Los Feliz Historic Homes collection is the place to start, and the Seyler House on Aberdeen Avenue is the closest neighbor to Nottingham that Debbie has covered in the same detail. A Los Feliz realtor who knows the Spanish years can read a street like this from the record up, and that is what this guide is for.
Nottingham Avenue questions
Where is Nottingham Avenue?
Nottingham Avenue runs north from Los Feliz Boulevard in the 90027 ZIP code, in the part of Los Feliz known as above the Blvd. Its address numbers start at 2203 near the boulevard and continue past 2675, and the Los Feliz Improvement Association lists 43 addresses on the street.
How many are Spanish Colonial Revival?
The Los Feliz Improvement Association records 14 of the 23 houses built on Nottingham Avenue between 1923 and 1930 as Spanish Colonial Revival. Three later houses, from 1932, 1978, and 1989, carry the same style tag, which brings the survey's total for the street to 17.
Who designed the Spanish Colonial houses on Nottingham Avenue in Los Feliz?
The survey names an architect for 17 of the 23 houses built between 1923 and 1930, including Wallace Neff at 2520, Floyd Mueller at 2349, John William Chard at 2417, Russell Collins at 2401, and J. A. Murray at 2408. Some of those names cite 1927 trade publications, and others rest on the survey alone.
Did Wallace Neff design a house on Nottingham Avenue in Los Feliz?
The Los Feliz Improvement Association credits Wallace Neff with 2520 Nottingham Avenue, built in 1927, and cites Pacific Coast Architect, September 1927, page 24. The survey calls it the first home of Norman and Dorothy Buffum Chandler and lists it as a potential Historic-Cultural Landmark.
Are Nottingham Avenue houses landmarks?
The survey marks five Nottingham Avenue houses as potential monuments: 2417, 2423, 2520, 2540, and 2580. Potential is the survey's word. Designation is a separate City of Los Angeles process, and until a house is designated it carries none of the restrictions or Mills Act eligibility that come with a Historic-Cultural Monument.
Who are some famous people who lived on Nottingham Avenue in Los Feliz?
The survey places Elmer Ralphs of Ralphs Grocery at 2401 in 1930, the costume designer Travis Banton at 2540 in the early 1930s, the actor Adolphe Menjou at 2612, and Norman and Dorothy Buffum Chandler at 2520. Most entries cite a directory, a census, or a published source, and the Menjou entries cite none.
Nottingham Avenue or Nottingham Place?
They are separate streets in the survey, each with its own address list. This guide covers Nottingham Avenue only, from 2203 to 2675. An address search should confirm which of the two a house is on before any conclusion is drawn from its record, since the names are close and the records are kept apart.
What does above the Blvd mean?
Above the Blvd means north of Los Feliz Boulevard, the hillside side of the neighborhood where Nottingham Avenue sits. Below the Blvd means south of it, where streets such as Ben Lomond Place run. Debbie Pisaro uses the line because it separates two different sets of Los Feliz streets and two different sets of houses.
What came after the Spanish houses?
The survey lists eight houses from 1932 to 1940, in Spanish Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival, and French Provincial styles, including a 1934 Paul R. Williams house at 2423. Twelve more date from 1950 to 1997. Debbie Pisaro's own read is that the forties were not the street's great decade.
Who is a good full-service real estate agent in Los Feliz?
Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran, founder of Coastline 840, and an Inman Luxury Leader, representing buyers and sellers across Los Feliz and the surrounding neighborhoods. Many of the homes she sells never reach the open market. She is a California real estate agent, DRE #01369110, and her practice is a boutique one.
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Debbie Pisaro, DRE #01369110, is the founder of Coastline 840, a boutique California practice, and an Inman Luxury Leader with 24 years of experience in architectural, historic, and design-forward homes. Many of the homes she sells never reach the open market. Coastline 840 is a brand of Side, Inc., CA DRE #02014153, responsible broker. She writes about California real estate at debbiepisaro.com, losfelizliving.com, and coastline840.com. Published September 2026.
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