In the early 1960s, a comedian named Thomas Young commissioned architect William E. Mader, then just in his mid-30s, to design a modestly sized modern home in the area of , on a steep slope along a sleepy, serpentine street just off famed Mulholland Drive with epic views over a huge swathe of the San Fernando Valley.

Mader, a USC graduate who in 1965 became the principal architect for the Irvine Company, a prolific developer responsible for residential and retail projects across California’s Orange County, completed the project in 1962. And, though it has had updates over the ensuing decades, the two-story hillside home looks today much as it did 60-odd years ago.

The 2,405-square-foot home, priced at $2.095 million, is one of 14 midcentury homes that comprise the Eureka Summit Residenti

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