Detail: 670 N Hammond St West Hollywood CA: RuskinARC™

Basics

Resource Category:

Building

Resource Type:

School

Location

Address:

670 N Hammond St

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:

4340-003-900

Local place name:

Setting/Landscape/Site Features:

Acreage, parcel, land unit size:

2.9962

Quad/Map name and date:

Date

Township/Range/Section:

/ /

Visible from Public Road?

Yes

Historical Information

Historic name:

West Hollywood School

Current name:

West Hollywood School

Construction Date (range/estimated):

1920-1929

Construction Date Certainty:

Known Construction Date:

1926

Source for Known Construction Date:

Los Angeles Times

Architect/Designer:

Homer W. Glidden (1926)

Developer:

Builder:

Unknown

Significant Owner(s):

Los Angeles School District

Historical Summary:

Extant Status:

Not Demolished

Architectural Style and Form

Plan/Footprint Shape:

Building Form or Plan Type (core plan):

Style, Primary:

PWA Moderne

Style, Secondary:

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:

Flat with parapet

Roof Material

rubberized/asphalt composite

Roof remarks/description:

Eave Type:

Eave Ornamentation:

Dormer Count:

Dormer Configuration:

Exterior Wall Material (primary):

original stucco

Exterior Wall Material (secondary):

Notes on exterior materials:

Principal Windows::

Window Panes/Lights:

Window Type:

Window remarks:

In general, the primary elevation contains pairs of three over three or two over two double hung wood windows. All windows have transoms above but almost all have been infilled.

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 stepped recessed entryway has wooden double doors with four lights in the upper portion and a large multi light transom window above.

Function and Use

Historic Function:

Education: School

Present Function:

Education: School

Function remarks:

Listed, Designated, or Protected Status

Status Code:

3CS

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

Rating or Rank

Recommended as a potential landmark?

State level landmark

Criteria:

Significance and Context

Theme(s)

West Hollywood 1926 - World War II

Period of significance

1926 - 1945

Significance/Context Remarks

This site was developed with a public school for the town of Sherman in 1904. As the population grew in West Hollywood during the 1920s, the Sherman School District developed plans for a larger school building to accomodate more children. The architect Homer W. Glidden received the commission in 1923. The original Sherman Public School was demolished and replaced in 1926, by which time the area had adopted the name West Hollywood and joined the Los Angeles School District. After the Long Beach earthquake in 1933, school buildings throughout the region were in need of demolition and/or reconstruction. Shortly there after, the State of California adopted the Field Act, which strengthened school building codes. Sometime after 1933, the West Hollywood School was reinforced and redesigned in the PWA Moderne style. It is unknown if the project was actually funded by the Public Works Administration. The name of the architect responsible for the redesign is also unknown.

Area(s) of Significance

Ancillary Structures / Outbuildings

Number of ancillary structures / outbuildings:

Secondary structure type

Contributing to primary property?

Ancillary structures remarks or description:

At the south end of the two-story, classroom portion of the building is a one-story auditorium. It is covered by a front-facing gabled roof covered by terra-cotta tiles. There is a separate entryway centered on the elevation.

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:

ALLOT IN SEC 18 T 1S R 14W ROCHA TRACT EX OF STS LOT 27 AND EX OF ST LOTS 28, 33 AND 34 LARRAMOND ADD TO SHERMAN AND EX OF STS MARIA V DE ALEXANDER 2.809 AC

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, Sherman 1910; Sanborn map, Los Angeles, vol 20 1926-50; Southwest Builder and Contractor, September 14, 1923, 43; October 5, 1923, 48.; “Sherman Has Great Future,” Los Angeles Times, August 5, 1923.; “Exclusive Suburbs Near Los Angeles See Continued Real Estate Prosperity,” Los Angeles Times, May 9, 1926.

General Remarks:

The City of West Hollywood has no authority over LAUSD property, therefore it is ineligible for designation as a West Hollywood Cultural Resource.

Custom / Extra Information

P3b. Resource Attributes:

HP15. Government building

B11. Additional Resource Attributes: