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Overview

Los Angeles architect Leland A. Bryant designed the Chateauesque Trianon Residential Apartments, completed in 1930, for the development firm, Chateau Holding Company,

Building History

This design by architect Leland Bryant (1890-1966) was erected at the end of the revivalist period, a time academically-trained designers made increasingly exact reproductions of historical styles; the Depression, by and large, shattered this nostalgia, and diverted architects toward Modernism. Before the fall, however, Bryant produced this virtuosic effort at transforming French Chateauesque precedents for contemporary apartment building use. With its steeply-pitched hipped roofs, tourelles with candle-snuffer roofs, tall chimneys and wall dormers, the Trianon (misnamed for a Neoclassical building at Versailles) stood out as one of the most faithful representations of 16th-century French Renaissance architecture in Los Angeles.

Building Notes

Its owner put the Trianon up for sale in 06/2012. (See Whitney Friedlander, Variety.com, “Architect Leland Bryant’s Legacy Looms Large in L.A. Lore,” published 04/10/2013, accessed 11/20/2020.)