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#220: Winona Boulevard Mid-Century Modern Historic District (Los Feliz)

June 28, 2024

The Winona Boulevard Mid-Century Modern Historic District includes 13 apartment complexes in a grab bag of MCM styles, built from 1950-1964. Collectively they offer a snapshot of a neighborhood in transition during the post-WWII population boom.

#209: Charmont Apartments (Santa Monica)

May 17, 2024

Architecture

Santa Monica's Charmont Apartments were designed in a unique combination of Spanish colonial & art deco styles by Max Maltzman, one of LA's first Jewish architects. It was lovingly rehabilitated after sustaining damage in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

Inside Richard Neutra’s Jardinette Apartments (East Hollywood)

April 14, 2024

Architecture

Get a peek inside Richard Neutra's modernist landmark Jardinette Apartments to see how the restoration efforts are progressing.

#187: Aloha Apartments (Hollywood)

January 8, 2024

Architecture

The Aloha Apartments were built in 1928 as a hybrid apartment building/hotel. There were a few starlets that lived here, but most of the Aloha’s tenants were middle-class professionals. It's a great example of how the housing market was changing to meet the needs of all the different kinds of people flowing into Hollywood during the 1920s and ‘30s.

#171: Richard Neutra’s Jardinette Apartments (East Hollywood)

September 8, 2023

Architecture

Though they're looking pretty ragged today, the Jardinette Apartments from 1928 marked the first solo commission for Austrian-American modern architect Richard Neutra, and one of the very earliest American works in the influential "international style."

#144: Halifax Apartments (Hollywood)

March 23, 2023

Architecture

The Halifax Apartments were constructed in 1923 to help address the influx of emigrants attracted to the exploding film industry. It's on the NRHP as a dignified Italian renaissance revival design by Walker & Eisen. But way more interesting is the story of its builder: Leach Cross, a Jewish dentist who moonlit as a mediocre boxer and eventually turned to real estate. And then the restaurant biz. And then back to dentistry and boxing.

#126: Richard Neutra’s Strathmore Apartments (Westwood)

November 12, 2022

Architecture

The Strathmore Apartments are one of four complexes designed in Westwood by famed modernist architect Richard Neutra. With its unadorned white stucco walls, flat roofs and long rows of ribbon windows, the Strathmore is quintessential international style. It's also surprisingly a plant lover's paradise, and a great example of Neutra's ability to design spaces that respond to the needs of his occupants with unfussy grace.

#95: Villa Bonita (Hollywood)

April 24, 2022

Architecture

This 1929 apartment complex once housed Errol Flynn and Francis Ford Coppola. It distinguishes itself from the many Whitley Heights high-rises by the spectacular vines that wrap around it, as if mama nature herself designed the facade.

#79: El Cabrillo Apartments (Nina & Arthur Zwebell – Hollywood)

March 10, 2022

Architecture

Built in 1928 for famed filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, El Cabrillo is a sterling Spanish colonial revival apartment complex by the undisputed LA masters of the form, Nina & Arthur Zwebell

#78: Hollywood Studio Club

March 8, 2022

Architecture

Architect Julia Morgan designed this 1926 building for the Hollywood Studio Club, a one-time home of Marilyn Monroe, Rita Moreno, Kim Novak, Barbara Eden and nearly 10,000 women seeking employment in the film industry

#68: Montecito Apartments (Hollywood)

January 30, 2022

Architecture

Standing tall in Hollywood since 1931, this art deco high-rise once housed Gene Hackman, Montgomery Clift, Mickey Rooney and Ronald Reagan

#66: Hollywood Argyle Apartments (Hollywood)

January 23, 2022

Architecture

While this 1920s Hollywood apartment building is anything but glamorous, its story says a lot about the development of Hollywood over the past century.

#33: Colonial House (Hollywood)

November 9, 2021

Architecture

West Hollywood apartment tower with a storied actor clientele, by architect-to-the-stars Leland Bryant https://youtu.be/DkHcn7vTfe8 Added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1982 Got $5500 a month[…]