Before buying her Los Angeles home in 2001, the actress Helen Hunt toured newly built houses with huge entryways and formal staircases. “Those were not for me,” she said in an email.

said the Spanish mission system left its imprint on California’s politics and art, too. Mission San Gabriel played a role in founding what is today the nation’s second largest city, when a group of ...

Halsey purchased her Los Angeles Spanish Colonial Revival home in Los Feliz for $5 million less than two years ago and has ...