| Sheats Apartments | |
| Location: | 10919 Strathmore Drive, Westwood, Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates: | 34.0678°N -118.4494°W |
| Built: | 1949 |
| Architect: | John Lautner |
| Architecture: | Futurist |
| Designation1: | Los Angeles |
| Designation1 Date: | June 21, 1988 |
| Designation1 Number: | 367 |
| Governing Body: | private |
The Sheats Apartments, also known as L'Horizon and sometimes mistakenly as the Sheets Apartments, is a historic eight-unit, multi-family building located at 10919 Strathmore Drive, in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is colloquially referred to as The Treehouse by UCLA students.[1] [2]
Designed in 1948 in the futuristic style by Los Angeles architect John Lautner, it was completed in 1949 for Neo-Fauvist artist Helen Taylor Sheats, who assisted in the design,[3] and her second husband, dean of University of California Extension Paul Henry Sheats, who was also a professor at UCLA.[4]
Because of its proximity to University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), it was intended for and has been used primarily for student occupancy.[5] [6] In their book An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, David Gebhard and Robert Winter praised its functionality by noting, "each apartment [is] completely separated from the others . . . with its own terraces, decks, and outdoor garden space."[7] However, its condition in recent years has deteriorated, with visiting professor and former presidential candidate Michael Dukakis calling it "a dump" in 2004.
On June 21, 1988, the City of Los Angeles designated the building as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.[8] [9]