Detail: 8703 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood CA: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

commercial building

Location

Address:

8703 Santa Monica Blvd

City:

West Hollywood

County:

Los Angeles

State/Province/Region:

Zip/Postal Code:

90069

Country:

USA

Other Address or Location Information:

Parcel/Tax number or land unit:

4339-007-012

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

0.2433

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Current name:

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1920-1929

Construction Date Certainty:

Known Construction Date:

1928

Source for Known Construction Date:

Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor

Architect/Designer:

Morgan, Walls, and Clements

Developer:

Builder:

Unknown

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

The structure is a building of Spanish Gothic Revival style architecture. The architecture of this commercial building is characterized by a large square and hipped roof tower at the southeast corner. The square corner tower has a molded cornice. A small, square turret projects from the western tower facade at the peak in the gabled roof. The hipped and gabled roofs are red clay tile with decorative wrought iron brackets supporting the rain gutters. The faÃ§ade of the reinforced concrete building, covered in stucco, resembles roughly textured stone blocks "cut" in varying sizes and shapes.By the building's construction in 1928, the old town of Sherman was beginning to thrive, as the foundation for what is now called West Hollywood. Santa Monica Boulevard had doubled in size, firmly linking its western portion to the westward expansion of Hollywood. This reinforced concrete building, styled in a lively Spanish Gothic architecture, clearly marked the eastern edge of the central business district for the emerging town of West Hollywood. The building is attributed to the architectural firm of Morgan, Wall and Clements.

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

rectangular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Style, Primary:

Spanish Colonial Revival

Style, Secondary:

Gothic/Neo-Gothic

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

Bays:

Structural System:

Foundation:

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Roof Material

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

Window remarks:

Chimney remarks/description:

Chimney Count (first):

Chimney Placement 1:

Chimney Count (second):

Chimney Placement 2:

Porch description, characteristics, details:

Porch Height, Stories:

Porch Configuration:

Porch Type:

Porch Roof Shape:

Porch Roof Material:

Porch Columns/Posts (upper or only):

Porch Piers (lower):

Primary entryway:

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Commerce/Trade: Business

Present Function:

Commerce/Trade: Business

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

5S1

Listed at the national level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated at State/Province level?

Individually Listed: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Designated Locally?

Individually Listed: Yes
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

West Hollywood Cultural Resource

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Yes

Protection status, remarks:

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Level of potential eligibility

Rating or Rank

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Criteria:

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

Prewar West Hollywood

Period of significance

1926 - 1945

Significance/Context Remarks

Area(s) of Significance

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

Condition and Alterations

Character of modifications:

General Condition:

Moved or Relocated?:

Date moved or relocated:

Relocation remarks:

Alterations?

Date of major alterations:

Nature of alterations:

Additions?:

Date of major additions:

Addition Height:

Addition Placement:

Addition Type:

Nature of additions:

Endangered / Threatened

Endangered by:

Endangered/Threatened remarks:

Recommendations:

Contact:

Tourism / Featured Destination

Open to the public:

Contact information, Hours, and Amenities:

For Sale, Rent, or Lease

Property Classification:

Sale status:

Sale remarks:

Owner

Ownership type:

Name of Owner:

Owner Mailing Address:

Legal Description of Property/Comments:

10 AND EX OF ST WEST KNOLL NW 80 FT OF SE 90 FT OF LOT

Survey and Recorder

Authorized Resource Number or ID :

Optional Tracking or Sequence Number:

Alternate Resource ID or Key:

Survey Date:

2016

Surveyed By:

GPA Consulting, 617 S. Olive Street, Suite 910, Los Angeles, CA 90014

Report Name, or Reason for Survey:

West Hollywood Historic Resources Survey

Level of Survey:

intensive

Sources, References, Bibliography

Previously Surveyed?

Yes

Name of Previous Survey:

West Hollywood Historic Resources Survey, 1986-87

Additional Research Recommended?

Other Sources of Information:

General Remarks:

Custom / Extra Information

P3b. Resource Attributes:

HP6: 1-3 story commerical building

B11. Additional Resource Attributes:

Latitude:	34.0874956080000000
Longitude:	-118.3805468610000000
UTM:	Zone 11S 372635.7328 mE, 3772717.4680 mN
Datum	WGS84

Attached Files

1986-87_West_Hollywood_Historic_Resources_Survey_Form.pdf

Located in

City of West Hollywood Cultural Resources

8703 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood, CA USA

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