{"nrhp_refnum":"77000302","name":"Horatio West Court","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"140 Hollister Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Santa Monica","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.00346477800008,"lon":-118.48699714499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-unit residential court at 140 Hollister Avenue, Santa Monica, California, designed by Irving Gill and built in 1919. It consists of four two-story reinforced concrete houses facing a central walk.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the two finest surviving examples of Irving Gill's social housing, alongside Lewis Court in Sierra Madre. It is also noted for a 1973-1976 restoration by a group of architects and preservation devotees, which returned the court to single-family use and advanced preservation in Southern California.","narrative":"Horatio West Court is a group of four two-story houses at 140 Hollister Avenue in Santa Monica, designed by architect Irving Gill and completed in 1919. The units sit in two pairs along a central walk, joined by walled service courts, and each has two private outdoor spaces. Walls are a six-inch concrete sandwich reinforced with steel rods, which helped the court survive largely in its original form. Garages with apartments were added in 1922, and the second-floor porches were enclosed in 1923. The court is considered one of the two finest remaining examples of Gill's social housing, the other being Lewis Court in Sierra Madre. Gill sought to provide good surroundings for lower-income families, using transitional outdoor spaces, carefully lit interiors and efficient kitchens. A restoration between 1973 and 1976, carried out by owners who were architects and admirers of early California Modern design, returned the rooming houses to single-family homes without altering the plan. The court has also drawn study from architectural historians.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Irving Gill","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied private residences; restored 1973-1976 and returned to single-family houses after years as rooming houses.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:32.194009-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/77000302.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000302/c55e3fe9fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77000302/c55e3fe9fc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horatio_West_Court,_Santa_Monica.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Horatio_West_Court,_Santa_Monica.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859218","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_West_Court","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5902845"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/horatio-west-court-77000302/"}