Sheats Apartments

Sheats Apartments
Location 10919 Strathmore Drive, Westwood, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates 34°04′04″N 118°26′58″W / 34.06778°N 118.44944°WCoordinates: 34°04′04″N 118°26′58″W / 34.06778°N 118.44944°W
Built 1949
Architect John Lautner
Architectural style(s) Futurist
Governing body private
Designated June 21, 1988[1]
Reference no. 367
Location within Los Angeles

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. Designed in 1948 in a futuristic or modernistic style of architecture by noted Los Angeles architect John Lautner, it was completed in 1949 for owners Helen Taylor Sheats, a renowned artist, who assisted in the design,[2] and her professor/dean of University of California Extension husband, Paul Henry Sheats. Because of its proximity to UCLA, it was intended for and has been used primarily for student occupancy. 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." "[3][4] On June 21, 1988, the City of Los Angeles designated the building a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.[1] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Los Angeles Department of City Planning (September 7, 2007). "Historic - Cultural Monuments (HCM) Listing: City Declared Monuments" (PDF). City of Los Angeles. Retrieved 2008-12-29.
  2. ↑ Helen Taylor Sheats obituary, LA Times, May 13, 1999
  3. ↑ David Gebhard, Robert Winter (2003). An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, pp. 24 (photo), 138-139. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 1-58685-308-2.
  4. ↑ An architectural guidebook to Los Ángeles, David Gebhard, Robert Winter, pp. 138-139
  5. ↑ Westwood Village Walking Tour, p. 27
  6. ↑ Lautner bibliography
  7. ↑ LA Times, July 23, 2011
  8. ↑ City Data listing for property
  9. ↑ flickr photos: this one and the two following
  10. ↑ 1948 John Lautner Foundation: List of Projects
  11. ↑ Glotter listing for property
  12. ↑ Globetrotting listing for property
  13. ↑ Los Angeles Modern Architecture listing for property
  14. ↑ Panaramio photo

External links

Helen Taylor Sheats at Find a Grave