Sheats Apartments

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Sheats Apartments
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Location10919 Strathmore Drive, Westwood, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates 34°04′04″N118°26′58″W / 34.06778°N 118.44944°W / 34.06778; -118.44944
Built1949
Architect John Lautner
Architectural style(s) Futurist
Governing bodyprivate
DesignatedJune 21, 1988
Reference no.367
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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. It is colloquially referred to as The Treehouse by UCLA students. [1] [2]

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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]

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References

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  2. "The Treehouse (Sheats Apartments) | Bruinwalk". www.bruinwalk.com. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  3. "Obituaries". Los Angeles Times. 1999-05-13. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  4. "Paul Henry Sheats Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University". library.syr.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  5. Hess, Alan (July 23, 2011). "AN L.A. STORY". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.
  6. "Sheats Apartments | Los Angeles Conservancy". www.laconservancy.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
  7. Winter, Robert; Gebhard, David (September 7, 2009). An Arch Guidebook to Los Angeles. Gibbs Smith. ISBN   9781423608936 via Google Books.
  8. 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.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. 1948 John Lautner Foundation: List of Projects