{"nrhp_refnum":"83003531","name":"Hacienda Arms Apartments","other_names":["Coronet Apartments"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"8439 Sunset Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West Hollywood","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.095134425000026,"lon":-118.37435086099998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-12-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-story brick apartment building at 8439 Sunset Boulevard, now in West Hollywood, California, built in 1927 in the style of an Italian Renaissance villa. It was designed by Charles Sherman Cobb for Alexander R. Gollos.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a rare surviving example of Italian Renaissance villa architecture applied to an apartment building in the Los Angeles area. Its proportions, smooth wall surfaces and finely crafted cast stone ornament are cited as exceptional. It also reflects the wealth and growth of the Hollywood area in the 1920s and was the work of a prominent Toronto architect.","narrative":"Built in 1927 on a rise along Sunset Boulevard, this five-story brick apartment building was designed to resemble an Italian Renaissance villa. Architect Charles Sherman Cobb, formerly prominent in Toronto, planned it for Alexander R. Gollos at a reported cost of $382,000. Cream and tan plaster covers the walls, and a full ground-level basement holds parking beneath a raised courtyard, reached by twin stairs flanking a cast stone fountain. Elaborate cast stone marks the arched entrance, the Classical/Gothic window groupings and the round cartouches dated A.D. 1927. The building is considered a rare local example of the villa form in residential use and was home to wealthy Hollywood residents in the 1930s. It declined from the 1940s as the Coronet Apartments, and a hotel conversion failed in the late 1970s. A fire in July 1983 destroyed the roof and top floor, but the exterior survived largely intact.","period_of_significance":"1927","architect_builder":"Charles Sherman Cobb (architect); Arthur Bard & Company (contractors)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance villa (Renaissance Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Unoccupied and described as vacant and derelict since early 1980; damaged by arson-suspected fire on July 18, 1983, which destroyed the roof and top-floor interior while leaving the exterior largely intact.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:26.978616-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/83003531.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003531/10403aa14d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003531/10403aa14d-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hacienda_Arms_(Piazza_del_Sol),_West_Hollywood.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:Hacienda_Arms_(Piazza_del_Sol),_West_Hollywood.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859170","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacienda_Arms_Apartments","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5637105"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/hacienda-arms-apartments-83003531/"}