Historic building in Los Angeles, California, United States
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]
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