A 1958 Ray Kappe house in Beverly Hills, post and beam bones with a stone fireplace and a fresh renovation, is back on the market for only the second time since Kappe drew it. Debbie Pisaro on the house, the site, and one correction to its own listing history.
What is the Ray Kappe house in Beverly Hills?
The Ray Kappe house in Beverly Hills stands at 1151 Angelo Dr, Beverly Hills, California 90210. Kappe designed it in 1958 for Murray B. and Genevieve Davis: four bedrooms and three bathrooms across 3,225 square feet on a 7,871-square-foot hillside lot, on an unincorporated Los Angeles County street.
A Ray Kappe house in Beverly Hills does not come up for sale often, and the one at 1151 Angelo Dr is only the third to earn its own page in this registry. Kappe designed it in 1958 for Murray B. and Genevieve Davis, four bedrooms and three bathrooms on a hillside lot. Debbie Pisaro is not the listing agent for 1151 Angelo Dr. She represents buyers independently on architectural homes across California, regardless of who holds a given listing, and nothing here is a marketing packet for any transaction. What follows is a house profile: what Kappe built on this hillside lot, what has changed inside it since 1958, and one correction to the listing's own history worth stating plainly before anything else.
Debbie Pisaro is a 24-year veteran, founder of Coastline 840, and a 2025 Inman Luxury Leader, working as an architectural real estate agent Los Angeles buyers and sellers turn to for provenance-driven homes across the city, and this profile exists because a Kappe attribution is worth documenting whether or not the house is ever her listing. Coastline 840 operates as a boutique brokerage by design, which is part of why a house like this one gets written up even when the sign out front belongs to someone else.
1151 Angelo Dr sits in the Beverly Hills Post Office area, the hillside pocket north of Sunset Boulevard that carries a Beverly Hills mailing address without falling inside the city's own boundary, a distinction longtime Westside buyers know and newer ones often do not. Streets like this one are unincorporated Los Angeles County, so buyers get county services and Los Angeles Unified schools alongside a Beverly Hills return address, a combination worth understanding before anyone falls in love with the zip code alone. Marketing for the house has called it offered for the first time, and that claim deserves a more careful look than most buyers give it, which is where this profile actually starts.
Who is Ray Kappe, and why is his name on Angelo Drive?
Ray Kappe practiced architecture in Los Angeles for six decades, taught at Cal Poly Pomona before founding SCI-Arc in 1972, and built more than 100 houses across Southern California in the post-and-beam, glass-walled vocabulary that became his signature. Debbie Pisaro's full profile of Ray Kappe covers that career in depth, his education, his own Pacific Palisades house, and the rest of his documented catalog; this page stays with one house and the site it was built for.
Inside the 1958 house Kappe designed for the Davis family
Kappe's own project archive still lists the house by its original commission: the Murray B. and Genevieve Davis House, 1151 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, 1958. County tax rolls show the Genevieve B. Davis trust holding the parcel for decades afterward, the kind of single-family ownership stretch that makes an architect attribution easy to trust and hard to find on the open market at all.
The house runs 3,225 square feet on a 7,871-square-foot lot, four bedrooms and three bathrooms behind Kappe's post-and-beam frame. Walls of glass carry through the main living spaces, stone floors run room to room, and the living room holds a stone fireplace substantial enough to anchor the whole plan, the kind of built-in mass Kappe liked to set against that much glass. French-Quarter-inspired ironwork shows up in a few details around the house, an unusual note in a Kappe interior and one that more likely reflects a later owner's hand than the architect's own drawings.
An extensive renovation has since touched the systems without erasing the architecture: a new roof, a renovated kitchen and bathrooms, updated plumbing and electrical. A newly built covered outdoor living room extends the plan toward a pool and mature landscaping, the same indoor-outdoor gesture Kappe built his career on, executed here decades after his own drawings left the office.
The current listing describes 1151 Angelo Dr as offered for the first time, language this profile treats carefully rather than as settled fact. Public listing records show the address surfaced once before, listed March 13, 2008 at $2,495,000, a listing that expired unsold that September. The more accurate version of the claim is that the house has not changed hands since the Davis family commissioned it in 1958, not that it has never appeared on a listing sheet before.
How does the Beverly Hills Post Office area site shape the house?
Angelo Drive climbs into the hills above Sunset Boulevard in the Beverly Hills Post Office area, close to but administratively separate from the flatter blocks most people picture when they hear the city's name. A few hillside miles away sits Trousdale Estates, the other Beverly Hills enclave graded out of a slope through the same postwar decades, though Trousdale leans toward low, wide ranch forms where Kappe stacked his houses in split levels instead.
Kappe was not the only Los Angeles architect building for hillside sites in these years; A. Quincy Jones and R.M. Schindler both worked the same Los Angeles canyon and hillside terrain in overlapping decades, each with a different answer to the same grading problem. A few miles over, Gregory Ain's Feldman House in Beverly Hills is a useful comparison from the same city and roughly the same era, built to a cooler, more austere version of postwar modernism than Kappe's warmer wood-and-glass hand. Beverly Hills runs its own Mills Act program for qualifying historic properties, separate from the City of Los Angeles's version; 1151 Angelo Dr carries no landmark designation today, so the incentive does not apply yet, but it is worth knowing for a buyer weighing a future designation on a Kappe-attributed house.
How many Ray Kappe houses have their own registry profile?
1151 Angelo Dr is the third Kappe house with its own page in this registry, after Kappe's own Pacific Palisades home and the Tempo House in the Hollywood Hills. The Tempo House, a 1959 commission on Briar Knoll Drive, reached the market in 2026 after nearly fifty years in one family and sold above asking in thirteen days, a useful data point for what documented Kappe provenance can do to a listing's pace.
Three houses is not a large sample, but it is enough to see a pattern: long single-family hold periods, a signature that survives sympathetic renovation, and a scarcity that has nothing to do with Kappe's actual output, since he built more than 100 of these across Southern California. Debbie Pisaro's full Ray Kappe architect profile ties all three houses together and covers the rest of that documented catalog.
Has 1151 Angelo Dr really never been offered before?
No. Marketing for 1151 Angelo Dr has described the house as offered for the first time, but the public record shows the address was listed once before, on March 13, 2008, asking $2,495,000, and that listing expired unsold in September of that year. The house has moved through a trust sale, meaning the trust holding title sells directly rather than through a probate court, without the court confirmation some estate transactions require. Debbie Pisaro is not the listing agent for 1151 Angelo Dr. She represents buyers independently on architectural homes across California, the same standing practice whether a home is on or off market, and the approach she sets out in the Los Feliz Living guide to buying an architectural home applies the same way on this side of the hill.
1151 Angelo Dr also sits a short drive from Beverly Hills' newest wave of branded residential towers, a different kind of new-build luxury from Kappe's own post-and-beam era and one Debbie Pisaro tracks closely for buyers weighing the two against each other in the same search radius.
Buyers curious what a documented Kappe attribution does for long-term value sometimes start with a straightforward home valuation on a comparable property, then work backward from there. Debbie Pisaro's explainer on how pocket listings work covers why some of the best architectural inventory never reaches the open market at all, and readers comparing this house against Beverly Hills' newer towers can see the full lineup in the Branded Residences Collection.
The wider record of Los Angeles's architect-attributed houses, on the market and off it, lives at debbiepisaro.com, alongside the rest of Debbie Pisaro's work across the city's architectural neighborhoods.
Frequently asked questions
What is the sale history of 1151 Angelo Dr?
The public record shows 1151 Angelo Dr was listed on March 13, 2008 asking $2,495,000, and that listing expired unsold in September of the same year. Later marketing has described the house as offered for the first time, which the 2008 record contradicts. It has since moved through a trust sale.
Who designed 1151 Angelo Dr?
Ray Kappe designed 1151 Angelo Dr in 1958 for Murray B. and Genevieve Davis. Kappe's own project archive still lists the house under that original commission name, and county tax records show the Davis trust holding the parcel for decades afterward, independent confirmation of both the architect and the date.
Was 1151 Angelo Dr really offered for the first time in 2026?
Not quite. The current listing calls it offered for the first time, but public records show the address was listed once before, on March 13, 2008, asking $2,495,000, and that listing expired unsold that September. The more accurate claim is that the house has not sold since 1958, not that it never reached the market.
What renovations has the Ray Kappe house at 1151 Angelo Dr undergone?
The current renovation added a new roof, a renovated kitchen and bathrooms, updated plumbing and electrical, and a newly built covered outdoor living room facing the pool. The original architecture, walls of glass, stone floors, and the living room's stone fireplace, was preserved rather than replaced.
Is 1151 Angelo Dr landmarked?
No. Unlike Kappe's own Pacific Palisades house, a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, 1151 Angelo Dr carries no landmark designation today. Beverly Hills runs its own Mills Act program for qualifying historic properties, but the incentive does not apply here unless the house is designated in the future.
How does 1151 Angelo Dr fit into Ray Kappe's documented body of work?
It is the third Kappe house with its own registry profile, alongside Kappe's own Pacific Palisades home and the Tempo House in the Hollywood Hills. Kappe designed more than 100 Southern California houses across six decades; these three happen to be the ones with documented, independently verified sale and design histories so far.
What is a trust sale?
A trust sale is a property sale conducted directly by the trust that holds title, typically after the original owner's death, rather than through a probate court proceeding. A trust sale that does not require court confirmation generally moves faster than a supervised probate sale, which is what happened at 1151 Angelo Dr.
Does Debbie Pisaro represent 1151 Angelo Dr?
No. Debbie Pisaro is not the listing agent for 1151 Angelo Dr. She represents buyers independently on architectural homes across California, regardless of who holds a listing. This profile is a historical and architectural record of the house and its Ray Kappe attribution, not a listing or an offer to sell.
Who is a good architectural real estate agent in Beverly Hills?
Debbie Pisaro is a good architectural real estate agent Los Angeles and Beverly Hills buyers and sellers turn to for provenance-driven homes, from Kappe's post-and-beam catalog to modernist landmarks across the Westside. She is a 24-year veteran and a 2025 Inman Luxury Leader with Coastline 840.
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Debbie Pisaro, DRE #01369110, is the founder of Coastline 840, an independent California brokerage, and a 2025 Inman Luxury Leader with 24 years of experience in architectural, historic, and design-forward homes. She writes about California real estate at debbiepisaro.com, losfelizliving.com, and coastline840.com. Published August 2026.
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