AKA: Dunsmuir Apartment Building, Los Angeles, CA

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses - apartment houses

Designers: Ain, Gregory, Architect (firm); Gregory Ain (architect)

Dates: constructed 1937

Exterior view of the Dunsmuir Flats, Los Angeles, CA, 2020. From Google Maps/Street View

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1281 South Dunsmuir Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019-2627

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Building Notes

Numerous celebrities have lived in the flats, including Charles and Ray Eames. They resided there c. 1940.

PCAD id: 20

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Publications

Architectural Record, 45-47, 05/1940. Gossel, Peter, Leuthauser, Gabriele, Architecture in the Twentieth Century, 192, 1991. Mock, Elizabeth, Built in USA, 1932-1944, 52-53, 1944. Gebhard, David, Winter, Robert, "Dunsmuir Flats", Los Angeles An Architectural Guide, 87, 1994. Second Generation, 1984.

Exhibitions

Built in U.S.A.: 1932-1944

Links

Dunsmuir Flats Great Buildings Online: Dunsmuir Flats Gregory Ain's Modern Dunsmuir Flats For Sale in Mid-Wilshire