Village Green, Los Angeles

Significant dates

Baldwin Hills Village
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #174
Village Green, 2006
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Location	Los Angeles, California
Coordinates	34°01′11″N 118°21′39″W / 34.01972°N 118.36083°W / 34.01972; -118.36083Coordinates: 34°01′11″N 118°21′39″W / 34.01972°N 118.36083°W / 34.01972; -118.36083
Built	1942
Architect	Clarence Stein; Reginald D. Johnson; et al.
Architectural style	Other, Modern Movement
NRHP Reference #	93000269
LAHCM #	174
Added to NRHP	April 1, 1993^[1]
Designated NHLD	January 3, 2001^[2]
Designated LAHCM	May 4, 1977

Village Green, originally named Baldwin Hills Village, is a condominium complex in the Crenshaw District, and a neighborhood at the foot of the Baldwin Hills, within the city of Los Angeles, California.

It is located between Rodeo Road and Coliseum Street, and between Hauser Blvd. and slightly west of La Brea Avenue, in the northwestern South Los Angeles area. The Baldwin Village neighborhood is just to the east of Village Green and La Brea Avenue.

History

The Baldwin Hills Village complex was built in 1942 as one of the most ambitiously planned communities in Los Angeles at the time, with 627 apartments grouped in buildings on a very large landscaped site. The Modernist Garden city style complex, which encompassed 627 units, was designed by architect Reginald D. Johnson, consulting architect Clarence S. Stein, with the firm of Wilson, Merill & Alexander, and landscape architect Fred Barlow, Jr. in the "" style. The units seldom have more than two bedrooms, and tend to attract seniors and younger professionals as residents. As one of the first such establishments, the Village Green was also designed with the requirements of car-owners in mind.^[3]

Landmark

As Baldwin Hills Village, Village Green was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in 1977, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and a National Historic Landmark historic district in 2001.^[2]^[4]

Gallery

Village Green Office Building, 2007
Village Green identification sign, 2011
Baldwin Hills Village National Historic Landmark plaque

References

↑ National Park Service (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "Baldwin Hills Village". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
↑ Sam Hall Kaplan: LA Lost & Found, New York 1987, p. 109.
↑ National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: (pdf), National Park Service, May 19, 2000 and Accompanying photos, exterior and interior, from 19 and 19. (10.0 MB)

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