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Village Green, Los Angeles

Field	Value
name	Baldwin Hills Village
nrhp_type	nhld
designated_other1	LAHCM
designated_other1_date	May 4, 1977
designated_other1_number	174
image	Village Green Signage.jpg
caption	Village Green neighborhood sign located at the intersection of Obama and Hauser Boulevards
location	Los Angeles, California
locmapin	USA Los Angeles Metropolitan Area#California#USA
coordinates
area	64 acre
built	1942
architect	Clarence Stein; Reginald D. Johnson
architecture	Modern Movement
designated_nrhp_type	January 3, 2001
added	April 1, 1993
refnum	93000269
nocat	yes

Village Green, originally named Baldwin Hills Village, is a neighborhood at the foot of Baldwin Hills, within the city of Los Angeles, California. Village Green consists of a large condominium complex that is both a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and a National Historic Landmark. Designed in the late 1930s and completed by 1942, it is one of the oldest planned communities of its type in the nation. Village Green was named by The American Institute of Architects as one of the 100 most important architectural achievements in U.S. history.

Geography

Village Green is located between Obama Boulevard and Coliseum Street, and between Hauser Blvd. and slightly west of La Brea Avenue, in the northwestern South Los Angeles region. The Baldwin Village neighborhood is just east of Village Green and La Brea Avenue. The site design consists of outer vehicular circulation roads, with spur roadways between some of the buildings of the complex. At its center is an elongated oval greensward, lined and crossed by paved walkways. Smaller garden courts extend outward from the central area between the residence buildings. The spur roads provide access to garage buildings, which also historically housed access to common facilities such as laundry rooms. The residences are one or two story frame structures finished in plaster, with the living units organized so that the living room and master bedroom face one of the garden spaces.

History

Origin

The Baldwin Hills Village complex was built in 1942 as one of the most ambitiously planned communities in Los Angeles at the time, with 627 apartments grouped in buildings on a very large landscaped site. The Modernist Garden city style complex, which encompassed 627 units, was designed by architect Reginald D. Johnson, consulting architect Clarence S. Stein, with the firm of Wilson, Merill & Alexander, and landscape architect Fred Barlow, Jr. It also featured a mural by Italian-American artist Rico Lebrun. The units seldom have more than two bedrooms, and tend to attract seniors and younger professionals as residents. As one of the first such establishments, the Village Green was also designed with the requirements of car-owners in mind. The development "was designed with all the roads and garages confined to the edges of its eighty-acre expanse."

Landmark status

As Baldwin Hills Village, Village Green was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in 1977, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and a National Historic Landmark historic district in 2001.

Gallery

Image:Village Green Photograph.jpg|A view inside Village Green, 2022 Image:Baldwin Hills Village, Office Building.JPG|Village Green Office Building, 2007 Image:Villagegreen-nhl.JPG|Village Green identification sign, 2011 Image:Baldwin Hills Village, Landmark Plaque.jpg|Baldwin Hills Village National Historic Landmark plaque VillageGreen 2006 sm2509.JPG

References

"Baldwin Hills Village". National Park Service.
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"Village Green 75th Anniversary Talk, by Gailyn Saroyan".
"Rico Lebrun and His Mural for Baldwin Hills Village, a Talk by Gailyn Saroyan".
Sam Hall Kaplan: LA Lost & Found, New York 1987, p. 109.
Kaplan, Sam Hall. (1987). "L.A. Lost & Found". Crown Publishers, Inc..
(May 19, 2000). ["National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination"]({{NHLS url). National Park Service}} and {{NHLS url.

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