Sheats Apartments

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]

Sheats Apartments
Location10919 Strathmore Drive, Westwood, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates34°04′04″N 118°26′58″W
Built1949
ArchitectJohn Lautner
Architectural style(s)Futurist
Governing bodyprivate
DesignatedJune 21, 1988
Reference no.367
Location within Los Angeles

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
  1. Bear, Rob (2012-11-12). "Are Lautner's Sheats Apartments Descending into Madness?". Curbed. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  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 requires |journal= (help)
  9. 1948 John Lautner Foundation: List of Projects
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