Los Angeles Department of City Planning RECOMMENDATION REPORT CULTURAL HERITAGE COMMISSION HEARING DATE: October 2, 2014 TIME: 10:00 AM PLACE: City Hall, Room 1010 200 N. Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 CASE NO.: CHC-2014-3199-HCM ENV-2014-3200-CE Location: 1117 S. Bronson Ave Council District: 10 Community Plan Area: Wilshire Area Planning Commission: Central Neighborhood Council: Olympic Park Legal Description: Boulevard Heights Tract, Lot 17, Block 12 PROJECT: REQUEST: OWNER: APPLICANT: Historic-Cultural Monument Application for the TEVRIZIAN APARTMENTS Declare the property a Historic-Cultural Monument Tevrizian Trust 1635 Lombardy Road Pasadena, CA 91106 Anna Marie Brooks 1109 4 th Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019 RECOMMENDATION That the Cultural Heritage Commission: 1. Take the property under consideration as a Historic-Cultural Monument per Los Angeles Administrative Code Chapter 9, Division 22, Article 1, Section 22.171.10 because the application and accompanying photo documentation suggest the submittal warrants further investigation. 2. Adopt the report findings. MICHAEL J. LOGRANDE Director of Planning [SIGNED ORIGINAL IN FILE] Ken Bernstein, AICP, Manager Office of Historic Resources [SIGNED ORIGINAL IN FILE] Lambert M. Giessinger, Preservation Architect Office of Historic Resources Attachments: Historic-Cultural Monument Application
Tevrizian Apartments CHC-2014-3199-HCM Page 2 of 2 SUMMARY Built in 1962, the Tevrizian Apartments exhibits character-defining features of the Mid-Century Modern style. The building is a two-story structure with 14 apartment units around a central courtyard. The mass of the building is essentially two long rectangles facing each other, perpendicular to the street, and connected at both ends. Exterior walls are stucco, concrete block, and brick. The building is white with dark brick and teal accents and the primary facade is symmetrically arranged. The east, street facing façade reads as two sets of three rectangles stacked upon each other in a mirror image. At the center are glass double doors in the middle of a glass wall, recessed between dark brick walls. On either side the ground floor consists of a white concrete block screen and brick painted white. The second story is white stucco and projects over the ground floor, creating overhangs on the front and sides. In the center above the entrance, the balconies of two facing apartments join. On either side of the balconies are a series of three large rectangular sliding windows. Above the first two windows on either side are pop-up clerestory structures that feature fixed windows recessed under overhanging eaves. The pop-ups themselves overhang the apartment windows, and horizontal extensions from their base travel across the center of the building, supporting shade structures for the balconies. On the other end of the building, the west façade, the top corner rear units project out over the ground floor as the east corner units do. Between these projecting boxes along the north and south facades are deep eaves and repeating elements of sliding windows and teal mullions. Inside the courtyard on the ground floor there are curving walls of concrete block screen, above are wide eaves and vertical fins. Sliding and jalousie windows, teal mullions, and addition teal slab doors and metal staircases fill the space. Character-defining features include horizontal massing, flat roofs with wide, overhanging eaves, geometric volumes, repeating symmetry, and the wide use of concrete screens and glass as design elements. The building was designed by successful regional architect H. Hrant Agbabian who designed the St. James Armenian Church in Ladera Heights, Magnolia Professional Building at 12520 Magnolia Blvd in Valley Village, and the Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument in Montebello. CRITERIA The criterion is the Cultural Heritage Ordinance which defines a historical or cultural monument as any site (including significant trees or other plant life located thereon) building or structure of particular historic or cultural significance to the City of Los Angeles, such as historic structures or sites in which the broad cultural, economic, or social history of the nation, State or community is reflected or exemplified, or which are identified with historic personages or with important events in the main currents of national, State or local history or which embody the distinguishing characteristics of an architectural type specimen, inherently valuable for a study of a period style or method of construction, or a notable work of a master builder, designer or architect whose individual genius influenced his age. FINDINGS Based on the facts set forth in the summary and application, the Commission determines that the application is complete and that the property may be significant enough to warrant further investigation as a potential Historic-Cultural Monument.