Architecture Wednesday: The Good Residence

This is the Good residence, a midcentury LA home that was on the market for the first time in 63 years after having just one owner. The home sits comfortably at the top of a long ascending driveway on a piece of land that was carefully chosen and purchased in 1960 by the Good family, a thoughtful and secluded lot in which they’d soon thereafter build their lifelong family residence.

This dream home was built in 1961 and inspired by the iconic Philip Johnson Glass House, with the intention to construct a sharp Mid Century home with a pool and stunning views, encompassed by nature, sky and natural light. The structure is unusually rich in graceful original details such as oversized floor to ceiling windows and unblemished original wooden paneling, closets and built-ins that still feel remarkably untouched.

The focal point of the living space is its dropped and centered 360 degree fireplace, a showpiece that beams historic character into the light filled setting. An open dining area is partially separated by a curved brick wall, flanked by a wall of glass that allows seamless city views beyond the lush yard.

The primary suite comes with an oversized walk-in wardrobe area and closet, as well as a separate den or office space. The kitchen—which can use an update—is centered in between the primary bedroom and the three other bedrooms, each of which are on the other side of the home. Open wall space on both sides of the kitchen allows for expanded visual depth from both the dining area and the den.

Outside is a large pool and several entertaining spaces are ideal for summer parties, outdoor dining and play time with children and pets. The property and setting are intentionally surrounded by nature and offer privacy from most neighboring houses.

The house was sold to its second owner for just under $2 M.

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Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore May Get The Last Laugh

Vice Admiral Nancy Lacore was in the Navy for thirty-five years, starting in the cockpit and finishing with three stars and command of the entire Navy Reserve of some 59,000 sailors and Marines; she has thirteen hundred flight hours under her belt, and command of the US base in Djibouti, and dozens of medals.

Last August, DUI Hire Pete Hegseth removed her, with no hearing, no charges, no reason on the record; a firing without cause. Lacore lost her job the same afternoon Hegseth fired the intelligence chief whose agency had just concluded that the strikes on Iran set the nuclear program back by months, not the total obliteration the president kept selling . The people closest to that inconvenient truth were swept out en masse. Competence no longer mattered, only loyalty and maintaining the lies put forth by Hegseth and an inept and incompetent regime.

Lacore could have taken the pension and the silence but instead she chose to run for Congress in the South Carolina seat Nancy Mace walked away from to chase the governor's mansion—and lose it. Last week Nancy Lacore won the Democratic nomination in a runoff, outright, and for the first time in forty years her district might be sending a Democrat to DC if she wins in November.

Hegseth once stood in front of a room of generals and told them that if they did not align with his vision and his story, they should do the honorable thing and resign. Lacore refused to resign and forced Hegseth to fire her …

And now Hegseth may spend next year answering to a Congress with her vote in it, her name on the door, inside the building she spent a lifetime defending. He wanted her out of his chain of command but his actions handed her the seat above it.

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