6 classic homes built in the 1950s

Featuring a firehouse-turned-home in Indiana and an award-winning house in Maryland

Michiana Shores, Indiana

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The leafy lot includes landscaped paths and a hot tub, firepit, balcony, and patio. Stop 50, a famed wood-fired pizza place, is a short walk, and Michigan City is a 10-minute drive. $1,549,000. Marissa Stapleton, Coldwell Banker Realty, (312) 520-3552.

Laguna Beach, California

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Set on a tree-lined street a few minutes from the beach and downtown, this 1951 stone-clad Craftsman four-bedroom cottage has a vaulted, open-plan main space with shiplap ceilings, wide-plank wood floors, and skylights. The marble kitchen has a waterfall island, and the primary suite offers ocean views and a private balcony.

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Outside are a fenced front yard, kitchen, outdoor shower, veggie garden, and garage. $5,495,000. Bryan Gerlach, Engel & Völkers Dana Point, (949) 241-9059.

Chevy Chase, Maryland

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Built as a mid-century modern home in 1953 and expanded by architect Mark McInturff in the late 1990s, this award-winning six-bedroom features light filtering in through walls of glass, French doors, and clerestory windows, showcasing its pale wood floors, clean-lined cabinets, high ceilings, and floating bridges.

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The house sits on a wooded lot abutting parkland in the Somerset neighborhood, which has a community pool and tennis courts. D.C.'s amenities are nearby. $2,995,000. Ron Mangas Jr., TTR Sotheby's International Realty, (703) 298-2564.

Portland, Oregon

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Architect Walter Gordon's Wessinger House was built in 1950 and sits on almost 10 wooded acres in the West Hills neighborhood. The restored four-bedroom, northwest-modern home includes floor-to-ceiling windows, hand-oiled wood walls and ceilings, an octagonal family room, cork floors with radiant heat, and a skylighted kitchen with a butcher-block island, plus patios and a courtyard outside.

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It's less than 15 minutes to town, and near trails and green space. $5,250,000. Suzann Baricevic Murphy, (w)here real estate, (503) 789-1033.

Los Angeles, California

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Built in 1952, this two-bedroom is No. 16 of the Case Study Houses commissioned from 1945 to 1966 by Art & Architecture as replicable models for the postwar housing boom. Atop Bel Air Road, its oversize windows frame city, canyon, and ocean views, with interior spaces defined by slatted wood walls.

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Translucent screens surround a patio connecting to a yard bordered by brick walls and hedges. Trails, the Getty, and Beverly Hills are nearby. $5,395,000. Crosby Doe, Crosby Doe Associates, (310) 428-6755.

Sarasota, Florida

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Set in the Indian Beach Sapphire Shores neighborhood, this 1959 mid-century modern two-bedroom was recently fully renovated. The living area has tile floors, built-ins, roofline windows, a pass-through kitchen with stainless appliances, and a glass door to a large, screened patio with a grill. The fenced back patio includes a kidney-shaped pool surrounded by trees.

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Downtown shopping, the Ringling Museum, and Lido Beach are within 10 minutes. $560,000. Amanda Gilliland, Coldwell Banker Realty, (941) 320-1132.