Detail: 8980 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood CA: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

Automobile sales showroom

Location

Address:

8980 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:

4336-009-011

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

0.2693

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

Howard Preston Co.

Current name:

Heritage Classics

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1930-1939

Construction Date Certainty:

Known Construction Date:

1931

Source for Known Construction Date:

Los Angeles County Office of the Assessor

Architect/Designer:

Unknown

Developer:

Builder:

Unknown

Significant Owner(s):

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

irregular

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Style, Primary:

Spanish Colonial Revival

Style, Secondary:

Notes on architectural style, form, distinguishing features:

Architectural Elements and Features

Number of Stories:

1.5

Bays:

Structural System:

Foundation:

Basement:

Building Size:

Square footage/meters:

Roof Configuration:

Multi-plane/complex

Roof Material

terra-cotta tiles

Roof remarks/description:

Roof is surrounded by a parapet. Much of it is flat, with a front gable over the double-height main entryway and low side gabled and low barrel vaulted portions to each side.

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original stucco

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

steel

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

fixed

Window remarks:

Most are large display windows with and without bulkheads.

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:

The main entryway is comprised of a set of glazed doors and a transom. Directly above it appears that there was once a doorway that has been infilled. The entry feature is surrounded by red brick.

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Commerce/Trade: Business

Present Function:

Commerce/Trade: Business

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

5S3

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: No
Contributes to a District: No
Landmark: No

Date, name, remarks:

Protected by ordinance or regulation?:

Protection status, remarks:

Evaluation of Potential Eligibility

Potentially eligible for historic/heritage designation?

Individually eligible

Level of potential eligibility

Local

Rating or Rank

Recommended as a potential landmark?

Criteria:

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

West Hollywood 1926 - World War II

Period of significance

1926 - 1945

Significance/Context Remarks

During the 1910s, the land that would make up West Hollywood was mostly rural in nature, but by the early 1920s its position between the motion picture studios in Hollywood and the preferred residential area for film stars in Beverly Hills led to its urbanization, with sewer and gas lines being installed and residential streets graded. This also led to the opening of a number of car dealerships featuring showrooms and service garages. Howard Preston Co. Ford Dealership closed shortly after it opened, an apparent victim of the Great Depression. The building spent 1933 to 1966 housing a variety of non-automotive businesses, including Hamel Radiator Corporation (1933), Ashburn Brothers Heating (1950), Airomatic Heating (1954), and the Herman Schlorrman Furniture Warehouse (1965). In 1966, it was returned to its original purpose with the opening of Auto Europa, and it remains a car dealership today, doing business as the Heritage Classics Motorcar Company. Though two other West Hollywood dealerships survive from this era, both have been extensively remodeled, leaving this as the most intact example.

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:

LOT 3 TRACT NO 3585 LOT COM SW ON SE LINE OF SANTA MONICA BLVD 9 FT FROM INTERSECTION OF SD SE LINE WITH E LINE OF LOT 42 TH S 39 19 E 46.79 FT TH N 89 43 30 W 22.69 FT TH S TO A LINE PARALLEL WITH AND DIST N AT

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?

Name of Previous Survey:

Additional Research Recommended?

Other Sources of Information:

Sanborn Map, vol 20, 1926-50; Los Angeles County Assessor Records, 1931-62; Los Angeles Times, various dates.

General Remarks:

Custom / Extra Information

P3b. Resource Attributes:

HP6: 1-3 story commercial building

B11. Additional Resource Attributes:

Latitude:	34.0829337200000000
Longitude:	-118.3862353170000000
UTM:	Zone 11S 372104.0375 mE, 3772218.6959 mN
Datum	WGS84

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City of West Hollywood Cultural Resources

8980 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood, CA USA

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