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Harry Gesner-Designed Boat House Seeks New Captain

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PMC administratorThere are lots of kooky, one-of-a-kind homes in Los Angeles, and the Hollywood Hills Boat Houses, designed by famed architect Harry Gesner, are surely among them.

Cantilevered over the Cahuenga Pass on a 45-degree incline, the cluster of ark-resembling residences were commissioned in 1959, by attorney Ronald Buck, on lots that were just 25 feet wide.

Most architects said the site was impossible to build on, but such challenges were like catnip to Gesner. “I had to find people willing to work on the hillside while they were suspended from ropes,” recalls Gesner, now 95.

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