Hollywood bungalow courtyard gets a second act

By restoring some 1920s bungalow courts slated for demolition, the
Hollywood Community Housing Corp. created homes for low-income people
with special needs. Now that work is being recognized with a Los
Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award.



The Hollywood Bungalow
Courts project is one of eight that the conservancy recognized. One
other residential project, the Rudolph Schindler Bubeshko Apartments in
Silver Lake, also was honored.

In Hollywood, three bungalow
courts on Serrano Avenue were to be replaced with condominiums, but the
Community Redevelopment Agency stepped in, and they were spared, along
with a bungalow court on Kingsley Drive. All were Mission Revival and
Spanish Colonial Revival in style, with central courtyards.