Keeler House

{{Infobox building

| architect = Ray Kappe

| client = Anne Keeler

}}

{{Short description|Notable residence in California}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}

The Keeler House was a house in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles. It was completed in 1991 to the designs of American architect Ray Kappe and was destroyed in the January 2025 Palisades Fire.

The house was designed in a Modernist style by Kappe for Anne Keeler, a jazz singer, and her husband Gordon Melcher. The couple had originally engaged another architect before they approached Kappe.{{cite web|author=Adriene Biondo|title=Ray Kappe's Keeler Up Close|url=https://www.eichlernetwork.com/article/ray-kappe%E2%80%99s-keeler-close|archive-url=|publisher=Eichler Network|accessdate=13 January 2025|archivedate=}} Keeler was an admirer of Kappe's 1967 residence on Brooktree Road in Pacific Palisades. It was a remodelling of the extant residence on the site. The house was 4,142 sq ft in size with 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. The walls and floors of the house were made from concrete; redwood, teak and fir woods were also used throughout the house. The house used a cantilevered post-and-beam construction that was one of the last of its kind, due to newer California seismic codes and Title 24 building efficiency standards.{{Cite web |last=thevalueofarchitecture |date=August 28, 2024 |title=Instagram: Ray Kappe, FAIA, Architect, The Keeler House |url=https://www.instagram.com/thevalueofarchitecture/reel/C_O1WalSESU/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=www.instagram.com}} It was completed in 1991 with the construction having taken four and a half years.

In April 2024 the house was put up for sale for $12 million. It was destroyed in the January 2025 Southern California wildfires.{{cite news|author=Jessica Gelt|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-01-11/architecture-houses-burned-in-palisades-la-fires|archive-url=|title=The architecturally significant houses destroyed in L.A.'s fires|date=29 January 2014|work=The Los Angeles Times|accessdate=11 January 2025|archivedate=}}{{cite news|author=Sam Lubell|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/design/architecture-fires-california-los-angeles-rogers-eames.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20250111064240/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/arts/design/architecture-fires-california-los-angeles-rogers-eames.html|title=As Flames Consume Architectural Gems, a Hit to 'Old California'|date=9 January 2025|work=The New York Times|accessdate=11 January 2025|archivedate=11 January 2025}}

The house was located at 16525 Akron Street in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.{{cite web |title=PCAD – Keeler, Anne, House, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA |url=https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/2501/ |website=pcad.lib.washington.edu}}