Horatio West Court

Horatio West Court
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Horatio West Court, 2008
Location:	Santa Monica, California
Coordinates:	34°0′12″N 118°29′10″W
Built:	1919
Architect:	Irving Gill
Architectural style:	Modern Movement, Other
Governing body:	Private
NRHP Reference#:	77000302
Added to NRHP:	April 11, 1977

Horatio West Court, built in Santa Monica, California in 1919, is an early example of attached houses with shared pedestrian and vehicle access. It was designed by Irving Gill. The arched entry ways and small patio courts reflect Gill's affinity for the Mission Revival style. However, the buildings themselves fall squarely into the Modern Movement.

Richard Neutra extensively photographed the Horatio West Court as well as Gill's Dodge House and published in his book Amerika: Neues Bauen in der Welt (1930). In his Leland Roth's American Architecture: A History, the Horatio West Court is described as "Gill's flat-roof crisply-rectilinear apartment complex." [1] In Coastal California, John A. Vlahides and Tullan Spitz describe the complex as "one of the best examples of Irving Gill's revolutionary modernism." [2]

The Horatio West Court was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, the first building in the City of Santa Monica to be listed in the National Register.

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External links

• Irving Gill Central