User:Jengod/Crestwood Hills
Crestwood Hills is a residential district in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood situated at the top of Kenter Canyon.
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Mutual Housing Assn., hired him as part of a three-man team to design modest-sized homes for returning servicemen. 1950 Mutual Housing project in the Crestwood Hills section of Brentwood, a postwar co-op complex A. Quincy Jones Whitney R. Smith Egardo Continti160 of their houses, based on eight models Brentwood, Los Angeles, California
Architect Cory Buckner, author of "A. Quincy Jones
Los Angeles historic cultural monuments
Just after World War II, the Mutual Housing Association (MHA), a group whose mission was to provide more affordable housing, purchased 800 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, an area now known as Crestwood Hills. They built 150 new homes for middle-income families designed in an experimental Modern style by architects Whitney R. Smith and A. Quincy Jones. Only 31 of these pioneering homes remain intact today. Architect Cory Buckner has spearheaded an inspiring effort to restore and remodel seven of the original MHA homes, always in a restrained manner that has been faithful to the homes' original intent and historic details. But Buckner has gone well beyond restoration work, undertaking the actual preservation of the neighborhood by preparing successful City Historic-Cultural Monument nominations for ten of the homes. Her efforts have underscored the history of a unique Los Angeles neighborhood, preserved pioneering examples of Southern California Modernism, and enhanced the sense of community in Crestwood Hills.[1]
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