Sunset Apartments, Los Angeles, 1952

Title: Sunset Apartments, Los Angeles, 1952
Photographer: Bartlett, Adelbert, 1887-1966
Architect: Lind, Kenneth Nels, 1909-1975
Gooch, J. A. (Jesse Alexander), 1901-1960
Date Created: 1952
Date: 1952
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Description: The apartment complex was covered in the article, "On a Pacific Hillside: Leapfrog Apartments." House and Home, April 1, 1952, 101-03.
The apartment complex, built in 1952, was designed by Kenneth Nels Lind; J.A. (Jesse Alexander) Gooch was the landscape architect. The complex’s floor-to-ceiling windows and stepped design insured that each apartment had its own unencumbered views of the Pacific Ocean and Pacific Palisades hills.
Photograph of the Sunset Apartments (alternately named Leapfrog Apartments), side and rear composite view. The modern apartment house sits on a hillside overlooking the ocean; the building steps down the hillside following the angle of its slope. Multiple palms, shrubs and other plantings surround the complex. Large stones have been utilized as landscape features. The remaining landscape in view is barren by comparison. Signs on the property read: "Vagtborg Construction Co. General Contractors, ...714 San Vicente Blvd. AR.. 7-4274," "Kenneth N. Lind A.I.A. architect, 943 N La Cienega Blvd., Crewtview 5-1010," and "J. A. Gooch Landscape Architect, ...San Vicente AR 9-02..."
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: New up and down apt house. Sunset Blvd, near Bernheimer Gardens, 1952.

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1300_4193
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d63pj
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Rights statement: copyrighted
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.