Kelsey home sells for Hermosa Beach record of $15 million
Realtor Leo Nordine, a longtime neighbor and friend of the Kelsey family, sold the 102 year old Kelsey home for $15 million. Photo Don Guild was leaving the Jonathan Club in downtown Los Angeles one day in 1958 when he ran into Bill Still, a former Berkeley classmate of Don’s wife Barbara. The two were sometime neighbors in Hermosa Beach. The Guilds owned Guild Drug in downtown Hermosa and lived at 1920 The Strand. Still had married into the Lacey family, which owned a home at 1942 The Strand, two doors north of the Guilds’. Still told Guild that the Lacey family’s majestic, pitched-roof home was to be sold at auction. He asked Guild if he or anyone he knew would be interested in purchasing the house. The Kelsey home looks much as it did upon its completion in 1913, with exception of some modern conveniences. The Lacey home was built in 1913 by two brothers who owned Lacey Manufacturing. The brothers were given the property in payment for putting in the sewer and water pipes for the Hermosa Land and Water Company when the city streets were laid out. Subsequent generations of the large Lacey family kept the six-bedroom house as a summer vacation home. The Guilds mentioned the Lacey…
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