To those who don’t know it, Valerio Street in Van Nuys, especially between Van Nuys Boulevard and Kester, is lined with many exquisite, old, historic homes on large properties. Often these houses have Spanish architecture, swimming pools, and many fruit trees.
One of these, at 14721 Valerio, is on a 15,000 sf lot. The home is 3 bedrooms, two baths with a red tile roof, backyard swimming pool, and a very tranquil, luxurious garden.
Built in 1933, by one of the founders of Van Nuys, Mr. WP Whitsett, for $2,500 (two-thousand five hundred dollars) it is now on the market for $1.1 million dollars.
In the 1937 telephone directory, the homeowner is listed as James T. Von Eschen (wife is Clara.)
The 1940 US Census says Mr. Von Eschen was born in 1903, and the couple had two sons, James, 12 and John, 11. Marvin Grimsrud, brother-in-law, 38 years old, also lived in the house.
Mr. Von Eschen was a fireman.
Here in Van Nuys 
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