Hot Property: A Quintessential Historic Hollywood Santa Monica Tudor

In East Dallas, Hollywood-Santa Monica, which is celebrating its centennial this year, is a bit of a “cult neighborhood,” says real estate agent John Weber. “Everyone who lives in Hollywood-Santa Monica wants everyone to live in Hollywood-Santa Monica with them.”

In 1924, developer J.B. Salmon launched the Hollywood Company to subdivide and build a new neighborhood on an old dairy farm just southeast of the relatively new White Rock Lake. A year later, Bert Blair & Co founded Santa Monica, just north of Salmon’s Hollywood Heights.

The two neighborhoods developed simultaneously. Tudor Revival style homes were popular, as were Craftsman and Monterrey styles. The original deed restrictions, which protected the neighborhoods’ appearance and style, began to expire in the 1970s. In the late 1980s, neighbors wanted to preserve the historic integrity of the area. So in 1993 they combined the two neighborhoods, Hollywood Heights and Santa Monica, into one conservation district.

Today, Hollywood-Santa Monica has one of the largest collections of Tudor Revival homes in the American South, Weber says. And 6915 Vivian Ave. is “actually a beautiful example of a quintessential Hollywood Heights-Santa Monica Tudor.”

Built in 1935, the blonde brick house sits on a hill and has “great street curb appeal,” Weber says. It has the distinctive high notes of the Tudor style, as well as an arch motif throughout. Inside, it has several original details, such as the oak hardwood floors, the blue tiles in the hall bathroom and the fireplace.

Naturally, a number of things have been updated over the years. Previous owners renovated the kitchen and the current owner has completely transformed the master ensuite bathroom for modern living. And, Weber says, at some point in the house’s history the porch was filled in to create an office.

But “the porches and the front yards in that neighborhood are very important,” so a small patio was built in the front, Weber says. Every evening the homeowner sits on her porch and talks to the neighbors while the local children play in their yards.

A neighborhood and a house like this, Weber says, are “hard to replicate.”

Browse the gallery to learn more about the home. And take a look at more homes in Hollywood and Santa Monica during the Centennial Home Tour May 3-4. Get tickets here.

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Catherine Wendlandt is the online associate editor for D magazine‘s Living and Home and Garden blogs, where they all…