Neutra Davis House / Bakersfield

This was my second trip to Bakersfield to see the 1937 Davis House by Richard Neutra. The first post is here.

This difference this time is that I got inside! The owner, David Coffey, was nice enough to invite me over.

David purchased the house from Swiss-born architect Frank Ghezzi, who actually studied under Neutra. The house is in amazing condition. It's been well taken care of over the years but still has the perfect amount of patina. Ghezzi, the previous owner, made a couple of minor additions to the original design. They are hard to spot, because--well he was a Swiss architect who studied under Neutra-- so of course he did a good job. Be that as it may, David said at some point he'd like to remove an addition on the rear section of the second floor master bedroom to regain an outdoor deck that was part of the original design. That's a good example the kind of guy David is. A person who would lose square footage to get back to the original design is exactly who should be owning this outstanding example of architecture by Neutra.