Cary Grant, Lucille Ball, and Frank Sinatra were among the many Hollywood stars whose residences were designed by prominent Los Angeles architect Paul Revere Williams during a career that spanned from the 1920s to his retirement in 1973.
Among the 3,000 buildings the first licensed Black architect designed, from private residences to hotels, some of his most appealing—including one that formerly housed actor Denzel Washington’s family—can be found in Toluca Lake. Case in…

