Laguna Beach’s oldest house sells for $5.6 million - OCRegister

Laguna Beach’s oldest surviving home, made from ship wreckage, is officially off the market.

The bluff-top oceanfront cottage that sprang up in 1883 and was later rehabbed and expanded sold July 30 for $5.6 million. It boasts two three-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot dwellings and a three-car garage on a large corner lot overlooking Arch Beach.

The new addition and attached three-car garage. (Photo by Luxury Home Media)

Features of the original structure include a kitchen, which has been updated, a loft and a central living area with rows of ocean-facing windows.

Downstairs, there’s a master suite and access to a large outdoor terrace.

At the rear of the property is the newer structure.

The shingle-style home boasts an open-concept kitchen and family room with a fireplace.

Upstairs is the master bedroom with a balcony.

Initially, the property sought $7.95 million in May 2019 and dropped its ask several times.

“It was overpriced for a few years, and that stopped the homeowner from getting offers and getting an understanding of the true market value,” said Brenna Van Hoogenstyn of Harcourts Prime Properties. She held the listing with her Harcourts Prime Properties business partner (and mom) Kathy Clark and Diane Cannon of Compass.

Harcourts Prime Properties planned to auction the home to the highest bidder but sold it as a traditional listing, with several offers from within and outside of California, Van Hoogenstyn said.

Jennifer Wu of Harcourts Pinnacle represented the buyer, whom she wouldn’t identify.

“For him, just being able to own a historic home and have it all renovated and move-in ready was very enticing,” Wu said, adding he tried buying it in the past. “He owns lots of properties in Laguna Beach. And so, when this became available, he became excited about adding it to his portfolio.”

The Laguna Beach home, documented as the city’s first, was built in 1883 using “materials from shipwrecks that floated onto shore,” according to city documents. (Courtesy of Suzy Harper Giraldo, whose grandfather built the seaside cottage)

Thomas North Harper, the father of noted local architect Thomas James Harper, built the cottage. He used “materials from shipwrecks that floated onto shore,” reads a historical account by Tom Harper, the architect’s son who died in 2014 at 62.

City documents described it as a summer home.

Jon Seeman, Tom Harper’s cousin and Laguna Beach sculptor, said that “Thomas North lived in the house year-round.”

But his side of the family visited during the summers. They traveled by train from El Toro depot and caught a horse stagecoach to Laguna Beach. There, they met a Harper relative who drove them to the house on a horse-drawn wagon.

Seeman’s grandfather, Ed Seeman, later built the service station known as El Arco Garage at Pearl Street and Pacific Coast Highway. He also lived in a shingle-style house around the corner from it on Glenneyre Street.

The board-and-batten house remained in the family through the 1970s.

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