Fred Armisen Buys Historic Los Angeles Lodge for $4.3 Million

Fred Armisen is swapping one historic Los Feliz charmer for another. The actor and comedian paid slightly under $4.3 million for a French Normandy-style house that was completed in 1930 after listing his longtime 1926-built English Tudor home for $3.5 million two months ago, according to Dirt.

The SNL alum’s new dwelling has four bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths situated across 4,332 square feet of living space within a brick and half-timbered facade roofed with English slate shingles. Settled on a picturesque lushly landscaped lot near Griffith Park, the home’s outdoor spaces feature multiple terraces shaded by old trees and an outdoor fireplace and wood-burning oven for al fresco entertaining. Per listing details, there are also “storybook pathways” that “wind you along a magical gurgling stream with its own waterfall and pond.” How’s that for charming?

A jet-black gothic cathedral-style arched front door provides access to the foyer, which features a curving hand-carved staircase, aged stone floors, and tall exposed beam ceilings. From there, hand-carved openings with gothic-style arches that mirror the front door grant access to the common areas and the primary bedroom suite, which features an eye-catching corbel dome ceiling, a bespoke wood paneled walk-in closet, and a tiled ensuite bathroom complete with a clawfoot tub and mountain views.

In the living room, a big brick fireplace is topped with an ornate wooden mantel featuring an inscription in Old French that translates to “To God, My Faith/To Friends, My Hearth.” As the rumor goes, the saying was hand-carved by the original owner of the home, an artist, suffragette, and widow of a wealthy entrepreneur named Leona P. Wood. Wood, who was also a founding director of the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, was in her 70s when the house was completed in 1930. Across the living room, a huge wrought-iron picture window is flanked by seven-foot-tall gumwood wainscoting.