One of a handful of homes pioneering Chinese-American Eugene Kinn Choy designed in the neighborhood. Location: Los Angeles, California
Year built: 1956
Architect: Eugene Kinn Choy
Specs: 3 beds, 2 baths, 1,718 square feet, 0.084 acres
Price: $1,995,000

Born in Guangzhou, China, in 1912, Eugene Kinn Choy immigrated to Southern California with his family as a child. A 1939 graduate of USC?s School of Architecture, Choy established his own firm in 1947 and was the second Chinese American, after I.M. Pei, to join the American Institute of Architects.
In the late 1940s, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the enforcement of racial housing covenants unconstitutional, Choy became one of the first Asian American residents of Silver Lake. Along with his own family?s residence, completed in 1949 and photographed by Julius Shulman the following year, Choy designed a handful of apartment buildings and single-family residences in the neighborhood, including this post and beam at 3022 Windsor Avenue on the southwest side of the Silver Lake Reservoir.
Glass doors lead from the open-plan living and dining room to a spacious redwood deck.

Originally a single-story two-bedroom, one-bath home when built in 1956, the house was expanded in 1973 by longtime owners Kiyoshi and Mizuye Kawaguchi, who hired architect Jack Levinson to add a second-story family room and bathroom. A subsequent owner had the hillside home revamped in 2008 by architect?interior designer Thomas M...