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Dear Homeowner, on Behalf of the Crestwood Hills Association Board Dear Homeowner, On behalf of the Crestwood Hills Association Board, I would like to welcome you to our community. We hope the accompanying materials provide you with an entertaining and educational look into the history of our neighborhood as well as useful contact information. The Crestwood Hills Association has always been an active advocate for the interests of the neighborhood and maintaining its tranquil quality of life. Over the years we have been instrumental in preventing roads from connecting Mulholland Drive to Kenter Avenue, preventing the construction of a county dump in a neighboring canyon, and lobbying for improvements to our streets and park. We ask that you show your support for the Crestwood Hills Association (CHA) by paying your dues on a regular basis. Your $100 payment helps the CHA accomplish many things. Among them: > We support the Conditions, Covenants, and Restrictions (CC&Rs) attached to the deed of each property in our neighborhood, and assist our architectural committees and tree committees to that end; > We publish the Crestwood Hills Views Newsletter and Directory, and maintain the crestwoodhills.com website; > We maintain a preferential enrollment agreement for CHA members’ children with the Crestwood Hills Cooperative Nursery School (founded by Crestwood Hills residents); > We finance and coordinate annual brush clearance and tree trimming in neighborhood common areas; > We maintain a seat on the board of the Brentwood Community Council and represent our neighborhood’s interest to city and county officials; > We organize picnics, parties, and other social events including an annual softball game; > We maintain a fascinating archive. [Did you know that Crestwood Hills won an American Institute of Architects design award? That Crestwood Hills homes have been featured in many architectural tours, with several established as Cultural/Historic Monuments with the City of Los Angeles?] As always, the Board welcomes your input and involvement. Crestwood Hills can be as vibrant as its members choose. Let your voice be heard. Regards, Kate Blackman President 986 Hanley Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90049 www.crestwoodhills.com history Welcome to the neighborhood! The Welcome Committee welcome members delivering this packet will try to answer your resources renovation questions and introduce you to our community. Crestwood Hills is not just another neighborhood in Los Angeles. It’s much, much more. There’s no place like Crestwood Hills. Tudors here. The housing was also It truly is a dream come true. It was to be sensitive to the hillside terrain. conceived, planned, developed and Three men were selected (over such built by your neighbors. There was a figures as Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard tremendous housing shortage after Neutra and John Lautner) to design World War II, and Los Angeles was the homes—A. Quincy Jones, Whitney swamped with returning servicemen. Smith and Edgardo Contini. All three In 1946, four friends, all musicians and became leading lights and internationally recently discharged from the Army, known. Their designs were so unique had an idea. Together, they would buy and so far ahead of their time that the an acre of land, build homes at the four Federal Housing Administration would corners and have a communal pool and not approve mortgages in Crestwood playground in the center. Together they Hills. A delegation had to be sent could purchase what they could not to Washington, DC to convince the afford individually. It was a wonderful bureaucrats to allow funding. (Of the concept. Many had similar dreams, but 350 homes in Crestwood Hills, less only one community made it work— than 100 recognizable original designs Crestwood Hills. remain. We’re working on ways to Soon, the original four turned into a preserve them.) dozen, and the dozen grew to be more After much struggle, the homes were than 500. A nonprofit corporation built and Mutual Housing Association, called Mutual Housing Association having served its purpose, turned into was formed. All of the members owned the Crestwood Hills Association. Instead shares in the corporation and would of the community owning the homes eventually obtain a housing site. and land, with the members owning After looking at several properties, shares in Mutual Housing (the initial Mutual Housing purchased land in plan), individuals took title. However, Kenter Canyon. The next step was the communal ideal never quite left. hiring an architectural team to develop The Crestwood Hills pioneers (some of modern housing—no colonials or www.crestwoodhills.com history whom still live here) purchased this land, of the most current information. Visit hired a design team, obtained financing, us anytime at www.crestwoodhills.com. welcome resources hired contractors, opened a credit union, Your Architectural Committees renovation built a nursery school, donated a park You have probably seen the signs as to the city and created a community for you drive into Crestwood Hills—“An themselves and for us—their successors. Architecturally Controlled Community.” The stories of Crestwood Hills are Don’t be afraid; it’s a good thing. endless (the Bel Air fire, the Hollywood Otherwise Crestwood Hills would Ten, the Mutual Withdrawees) and be plagued by gigantic stucco boxes, some of your neighbors are historians sullying hillsides and blocking of this place. Crestwood Hills has been neighbor’s views. the subject of many magazine and For information on working with journal articles, and books, and won Crestwood Hills CC&Rs and tree architectural and planning awards. We guidelines, including an FAQ, check even maintain a fascinating historical out the section in your archive in the park. If you want to learn Renovation welcome packet. more, just ask. Some Final Words Your Neighborhood Association Welcome to the community. You’ve Your neighborhood association is the come to a place where you will soon Crestwood Hills Association. Dues know your neighbors. We are very proud are $75 per household, per year. The of Crestwood Hills and cherish its past welcome committee is part of your and future. Association. We also have a social committee, which holds an annual We hope you will too! softball game, and a website with all Visit www.crestwoodhills.com/dues to register for the community newsletter and notices; find more information on architectural and tree guidelines; and learn about community events. You can also pay your dues online by visiting www.crestwoodhills.com/dues. www.crestwoodhills.com history Mutual Housing Association, Los Angeles, 1946-1950 Whitney R. Smith, A. Quincy Jones, architects, and resources renovation Edgardo Contini, engineer Excerpt from A. Quincy Jones, by Cory Buckner The experimental forms of the Mutual in an area of Brentwood now known as Housing Association (MHA) set a Crestwood Hills. The tract in the Santa standard for excellence in postwar tract- Monica Mountains was designed to home development. The development’s be in keeping with the communal spirit. founders took a bold approach toward Land was designated as both private creating a cooperative community, and public, with acreage set aside for resulting in houses that offered a park, nursery school, gas station, and young families an opportunity to grocery store. experience modern architecture within a modest budget. Shortly after purchasing the land the founders interviewed architects, including After World War II, in 1946, four Richard Neutra. The original contract musicians formed the Cooperative draft was a joint venture between Jones, Housing Group as a viable way to obtain Whitney R. Smith, and Jones’s former inexpensive houses by pooling their employer, Douglas Honnold. John resources. The housing shortage for Lautner, an associate of Honnold’s, returning servicemen and the excitement architect Francis Lockwood, engineer of creating a model community through Edgardo Contini, and landscape architect cooperative methods were foremost Garrett Eckbo were also involved in the in the minds of the original founders. early stages of the project. Honnold By combining their resources, the four turned over the project to Jones and families could afford such luxuries as Smith when personal problems made it a swimming pool and an expansive impossible for him to continue. The final garden. They mentioned their plan team for the project consisted of Jones, to a few friends and soon found they Smith, and Contini, with architects Jim had twenty-five people interested in Charlton and Wayne Williams working the idea. Articles ran in the Hollywood as draftsmen with design input. Williams, Citizen-News and other newspapers, Jones, and Contini also became members creating an interest that boosted the of the Association. group’s membership to five hundred. The group purchased eight hundred The team drew up ten sets of plans but acres in the Santa Monica Mountains was sent back to the drawing board www.crestwoodhills.com history resources renovation Crestwood Hills groundbreaking with a plant nursery in the background. after the Association deemed the plans masonry and wood, was built in 1950 too modern. They returned with fifteen with a rectangular floor plan at a cost additional plans for modestly priced of $16,700. A framework of structural houses designed with a simple exposed ribs and posts extended across the structure and materials. The architects entire floor plan, in-filled with panels of presented a booklet, “Mutual Plans,” glass across the view wall. The main roof consisting of twenty-eight house echoed the slope of the hillside and designs, to the Association in 1948. a secondary roof created a clerestory The Association then began a series of operable plywood panels. The house of meetings to determine which houses gave the members of the Association it would select as models for the an opportunity to experience firsthand development. Eventually, eight of the the architect’s sweeping design for the plans were constructed. hillside home. With their own funds Jones and Smith Similar to the pilot house, the first purchased an inexpensive hillside lot structure built by the cooperative was in Mt.
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