United States Housing Administration (USHA), Harbor Hills Housing Development, Lomita, CA (1941)

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - housing - affordable housing

Designers: Johnson, Reginald D., Architect (firm); Stein, Clarence S., Architect (firm); Reginald Davis Johnson (architect); Clarence Samuel Stein (urban planner)

Dates: constructed 1941

click to open gallery Exterior view of Harbor Hills USHA Housing, Lomita, c. 1970; from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)
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26607 Western Avenue
Lomita, CA
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Overview

Completed as a New Deal public housing project just before World War II, Harbor Hills, in Lomita, CA, had several notable architectural firms as designers, including Reginald D. Johnson, Clarence S. Stein, Donald B. Parkinson, A.C. Zimmerman, Lewis E. Wilson, and Eugene Weston, Jr. It contained approximately 300 units and served as war housing for the stevedores and shipbuilders working at facilities in the nearby port at San Pedro.

PCAD id: 20210

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