Karasik House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 20 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1894.

From the record

One of 616 National Register listings published here for Los Angeles County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 436 Spalding Dr., Beverly Hills, 90212
When was it listed? December 2011
Category. building
Census division. Los Angeles
Architect. Lloyd Wright
National Register reference number. 11000933 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1894 to 1979

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 85 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Karasik House, surveyed 1979

Topographic sheet covering Karasik House, surveyed 1894

Fires near this property

53 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Karasik House between 1995 and 2020, burning about 617 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	EAST FIRE
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
18 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	FRANKLIN
17 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
9 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
3 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area	FRYMAN
26 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named
20 August 2010	Smoking	1.0 acres	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	not named

Every fire recorded in Los Angeles County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Karasik House: 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Acme Brick Co. Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gladding-Mcbean-Santa Monica Pit	Clay	Past Producer
J. Jensen	Clay	Unknown
Santa Monica Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Simons Brick Co.-Santa Monica Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Western Brick Co.	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Los Angeles County

Maps showing this location

20 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1894 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500
1896 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1898 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1900 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1901 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
1902 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1904 USGS Southern California Sheet No. 1 quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1920 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500
1921 USGS Santa Monica quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1925 USGS Sawtelle quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1934 USGS Sawtelle quadrangle1:24000 - 3 printings
1949 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1950 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1955 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1966 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1966 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1979 USGS Los Angeles quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Beverly Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
A. Quincy Jones Barn	0.8 miles	2023
Anderton Court Shops	0.8 miles	2004
US Post Office-Beverly Hills Main	1.0 miles	1985
Beverly Wilshire Hotel	1.2 miles	1987
Memorial Branch	1.3 miles	1987
Chateau Colline	1.4 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000933 in Record Group 79.
Los Angeles County	All 616 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.