It was completed in 1991 to the designs of American architect Ray Kappe and was destroyed in the January 2025 Palisades Fire.

The house was designed in a Modernist style by Kappe for Anne Keeler, a jazz singer, and her husband Gordon Melcher.

[2] Keeler was an admirer of Kappe's 1967 residence on Brooktree Road in Pacific Palisades.

[1] The house used a cantilevered post-and-beam construction[1] that was one of the last of its kind, due to newer California seismic codes and Title 24 building efficiency standards.

[1][4] The house was located at 16525 Akron Street in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.