The Sheats Apartments, also known as L'Horizon and sometimes mistakenly as the Sheets Apartments, is a historic eight-unit, multi-family building located at 10919 Strathmore Drive, in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is colloquially referred to as The Treehouse by UCLA students.[1][2]
History
Designed in 1948 in the futuristic style by Los Angeles architect John Lautner, it was completed in 1949 for Neo-Fauvist artist Helen Taylor Sheats, who assisted in the design,[3] and her second husband, dean of University of California Extension Paul Henry Sheats, who was also a professor at UCLA.[4]
Because of its proximity to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), it was intended for and has been used primarily for student occupancy.[5][6] In their book An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, David Gebhard and Robert Winter praised its functionality by noting, "each apartment [is] completely separated from the others . . . with its own terraces, decks, and outdoor garden space."[7] However, its condition in recent years has deteriorated, with visiting professor and former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis calling it "a dump" in 2004.[1]
On June 21, 1988, the City of Los Angeles designated the building as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.[8] [9]
See also
References
- ^ a b Bear, Rob (2012-11-12). "Are Lautner's Sheats Apartments Descending into Madness?". Curbed. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ "The Treehouse (Sheats Apartments) | Bruinwalk". www.bruinwalk.com. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
- ^ "Obituaries". Los Angeles Times. 1999-05-13. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "Paul Henry Sheats Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University". library.syr.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Hess, Alan (July 23, 2011). "AN L.A. STORY". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.
- ^ "Sheats Apartments | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ Winter, Robert; Gebhard, David (September 7, 2009). An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423608936 – via Google Books.
- ^ Los Angeles Department of City Planning (September 7, 2007). "Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments" (PDF). City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
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External links
- Photos atPanoramio Archived 2016-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Photos at Modern Architecture and Historic Buildings
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