Ben Shapiro's House (former)

Ben Shapiro is a conservative commentator and author who co-founded The Daily Wire in 2015 and hosts The Ben Shapiro Show. This Valley Village house was his from 2015 to 2021.

Lewis Stone, an MGM contract player for 29 years and Judge Hardy in the Andy Hardy films, had this Spanish Colonial Revival house built in 1930. It now stands as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

The Los Angeles Times described the house as the main residence on Stone’s 500-acre ranch. County records put the surviving parcel at about 0.6 acres, carved from Lankershim Ranch Land and Water Company land.

A Hancock Park history blog credits the design to David Picken and times the move-in to Stone’s 1930 wedding. It says he built a house next door in 1935, where his daughter Barbara moved with her husband.

Shapiro and his family bought in 2015, paying about $1.7M according to Variety. That 2020 report counted a film vault among the rooms, a fitting detail in a house built for a movie star.

City permits from his years record a kitchen remodel in 2018 and a Spanish tile re-roof in 2019. Seismic retrofit and chimney repair permits followed in spring 2021, the year the county roll records a change of ownership.

Shapiro announced his exit in September 2020 as The Daily Wire moved its headquarters to Nashville. “The answer: now,” he tweeted, adding in a statement that “the governance of this state and my home city have driven us away.”