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Sheats Apartments

Sheats Apartments
Sheets Apartments (Westwood).jpg
Location 10919 Strathmore Drive, Westwood, Los Angeles, California
Coordinates 34°04′04″N 118°26′58″W / 34.06778°N 118.44944°W / 34.06778; -118.44944Coordinates: 34°04′04″N 118°26′58″W / 34.06778°N 118.44944°W / 34.06778; -118.44944
Built 1949
Architect John Lautner
Architectural style(s) Futurist
Governing body private
Designated June 21, 1988
Reference no. 367
Sheats Apartments is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Sheats Apartments
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, 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." " On June 21, 1988, the City of Los Angeles designated the building a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

Helen Taylor Sheats at Find a Grave


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