Tucked into the tree-lined hills of Thousand Oaks, a 1980s home by the legendary architect Frank Gehry has quietly traded hands for $2.45 million without ever hitting the open market. Commissioned in 1983 and competed in 1988, the Sirmai-Peterson House, as it’s known, sits almost an hour from downtown LA, and has garnered less attention than some of Gehry’s other residential projects, like his personal Santa Monica residence. “Nobody knew about this house really,” said listing representative Brian Linder, of Compass. “It was published in the late ’80s, but then the owners have lived in it since then and are just very private people … it was kind of hiding in plain sight out there.” Frank Gehry passed away in late 2025 at the age of 96. Getty Images Gehry’s career spanned decades, but he designed very few residences during his time. Cameron Carothers Unlike his large-scale institutional works, largely dressed with shiny metallic panels, this project has a different aesthetic entirely.…