A 1924 Spanish Colonial, quietly restored, on a tree-lined corner of South Pasadena Avenue.

Set behind a low stucco wall and a row of old olives, the Wexford House is one of the original Reginald Johnson commissions in Madison Heights, completed in the spring of 1924 for a Pasadena attorney and his family. The bones, an arched arcade across the front, a single wing of bedrooms on the second floor, and a service kitchen opening onto a brick-paved courtyard, are all intact.

Between 2021 and 2023, the house was taken down to its plaster by Bo Lim Architects and rebuilt with quiet patience. The original cast-iron sash, the saltillo floors in the entry, and the hand-glazed Malibu tile around the living room fireplace were preserved. Everything behind the wall, the wiring, the plumbing, the seismic retrofit, the radiant heating in the bathrooms, is new.

The result is a house that reads, on first walk-through, as if nothing had been touched. The light falls the way Johnson drew it to. The arcades open onto a deeper courtyard than you expect. The kitchen, by far the most contemporary room, is set back from the front rooms so that a guest crossing from the salon to the dining room never sees an appliance.

On the upper floor, the principal suite sits at the east end of the wing, with a small loggia overlooking the rear garden and the citrus trees beyond. Three further bedrooms share the wing; a fifth is set above the garage with its own stair, intended originally as staff quarters and used now as a study.