SF Valley Cultural Landmarks In The News, Including “Corbin Palms House” In Woodland Hills
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Some San Fernando Valley landmarks were in the news yesterday, including a home in Woodland Hills.
Chris Nichols knows a good beer-barrel building when he sees one. And a group of Kennedy High School students has an eye for San Fernando Valley architectural gems.
Both are seeking to save four historic buildings, from a Lankershim Ranch reading room to a North Hills church.
And both are working to name each a city Historic-Cultural Monument, which would protect such landmarks as the onion-domed Sepulveda Unitarian church and the barrel-shaped bar once known as the Idle Hour Cafe.
The nominations for monument status, including three by the Kennedy High students, will be considered today by the Cultural Heritage Commission. If approved, the applications will likely clear the City Council this spring.
“It’s particularly exciting to have four remarkable San Fernando Valley landmarks in a single Cultural Heritage agenda,” said Ken Bernstein, manager of the city Office of Historic Resources.
“It’s tremendously exciting that a Valley architectural magnet school is preparing an entirely new generation of preservationists to take responsibility for Valley history.”
Fewer than 10 percent of the city’s nearly 1,000 historic-cultural monuments are located in the San Fernando Valley.
One of these sites is the Corbin Palms House:
The Corbin Palms House, an impeccable ranch-style house in Woodland Hills built in 1955 by William Krisel and Dan Palmer. The duo designed many modernist homes in the Valley and Palm Springs.
A site I found called Eichler Networks did an great write up about Corbin Palms here (a must read), and this is there blurb about that development:
• Corbin Palms is located on the west side of Corbin Avenue, between Calvert and Hamlin streets. The 6100 and 6200 blocks of Jumilla have homes that are particularly well preserved. Two landmark homes share a broad, park-like lawn on Corbin, just south of Topham Street. Victory Boulevard has a remarkable array of palms.
I was trying to figure out by searching online exactly which home they are speaking about in the article, and as of this moment I’m not sure. If anyone has any idea, please leave a comment so I can find it and go take a picture.
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Girard, do you have a topographical outline of woodland hills in your blog? I thought south Corbin Ave is tarzana and east candy cane lane is in winnetka.
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Well, west of Corbin is Woodland Hills. Corbin is the cut off. Candy Cane Lane seems to encompass homes between Winnetka Ave and Corbin Ave, so that is in Woodland Hills. Are there houses decorated Candy Cane Lane style on the east side of Corbin as well?
The Corbin Palms area, according to the above article is “located on the west side of Corbin Avenue, between Calvert and Hamlin streets.” So that would be Woodland Hills.
The LA Times has a map here: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/woodland-hills/
And also for the purpose of the Neighborhood Council, there is a map here: http://whcouncil.org/page2.php?snum=9
As you can see there is an area above Warner Center (Victory) that is, to me, in some sort of limbo as to whether that is Woodland Hills or Canoga Park. On maps it is called Woodland Hills, but it has a Canoga Park zip code, and the mail is handle by the Canoga Park post office on Sherman Way.
Winneka is the area to the northeast of the Victory/De Soto Intersection: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/winnetka/
Enjoy.
Thanks for clearing it up. I get mixed up because sometimes, there is a community with a name within a city, like Warner center. Go figure!