The living area. (Photo by Jason Harlem)

The dining area. (Photo by Jason Harlem)

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“Jetliner views” from the poolside. (Photo by Jason Harlem)

An aerial view of the 1961-built Encino home designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra. (Photo by Jason Harlem)



A midcentury Encino home designed by famed modernist architect Richard Neutra on a nearly half-acre lot has landed on the market for the first time in 59 years.

The asking price is $2.8735 million.

Located at 16533 Oldham Street, the 2,676-square-foot house has four bedrooms, three bathrooms and an open floor plan with a fireplace in the living room.

The house was built for physician Eugene D. Erman and his wife, Rowene, in 1961. Its original built-ins, recessed soffit lighting and large sheets of glass remain.

Glass walls frame the backyard, with its swimming pool and what the listing describes as “jetliner views of the Valley lights and mountains beyond.” They also fill the house with natural light.

Andrew Manning of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties holds the listing. It will open from 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 19.

Neutra, who died in 1970 at age 78, defined modernism with his residential, civic and commercial properties in California and around the world.

Time magazine called him “one of the world’s best and most influential moderns” when it featured him on its cover in 1949, which was noted in the Museum of Modern Art in New York’s catalog “The architecture of Richard Neutra: from International Style to California Modern.”