PCAD - Montecito Apartments, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

Front entryway, Montecito Apartments, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA, 2022. From Google Maps/Street View, accessed 09/20/2023.

Satellite image of the house at 17852 40th Avenue NE, Lake Forest Park, WA, c. 2023. From Google Maps/Street View, accessed 09/20/2023

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6650 Franklin Avenue
Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 90028

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Los Angeles architect Marcus P. Miller (1892-1949) designed this Art Deco apartment building for a site at on the southwest corner of Franklin Avenue and Cherokee Avenue. In 1946, the Montecito Apartments contained 90 units; Harry Grossman sold the building to the Montecity Realty Company for $600,000. At this time, Grossman, an early Downtown realtor, sold two other of his properties--the Sir Francis Drake Apartments and the Admiral Apartments, both in Los Angeles, CA--to other investors for a cumulative $2 million.

In 1934, the Montecito Apartments sought a variance from the Los Angeles City Council (in a 7-4 vote) to create a commissary on the first floor the building for the tenants' convenience. Council members were afraid that a variance would cause a flood of similar requests from apartments around the city.

PCAD id: 14553

Publications

Wanamaker, Marc, Nudelman, Robert W., Early Hollywood, 94, 2007. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "17. Montecito Apartment Building, 1931", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 150, 1994. "Zone plea hits snag in Council", Los Angeles Times, A1, 08/30/1934. "Ten-Story Structure Deal Heads $2,000,000 Sales List", Los Angeles Times, 13, 02/17/1946.

Montecito Apartments, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA (1931)

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