The Ojai Apartments
| The Ojai Apartments | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Mediterranean Revival |
| Location | 1929 N. Whitley Ave., Hollywood, Los Angeles, California |
| Coordinates | 34°06′27″N 118°20′0.1″W / 34.10750°N 118.333361°W |
| Completed | 1928 |
| Governing body | Private |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Frank H. Webster |
The Ojai Apartments is an historic Mediterranean Revival apartment building at 1929 N. Whitley Ave., at the intersection of Whitley with Padre Terrace, in Hollywood, California.
History[edit]
The Ojai Apartments were designed by Frank H. Webster, architect of the historic landmark Villa Bonita,[1] and built by the Cooper Construction Company in 1928.[2] It features five stories facing Padre Terrace and four stories facing its northern end at Emmet Terrace.[3] It has terracotta roof tiles and a rooftop neon sign.[3] The complex was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in May 2006.[2] In 2017, the Ojai was used as the residence of the fictional Tommy Wiseau in James Franco's The Disaster Artist.[4] The use of the building is thought to be a double entendre on Tommy Wiseau's infamous The Room character's habit of greeting other characters with a perfunctory "Oh, hi."
References[edit]
- ^ https://planning.lacity.org/StaffRpt/CHC/1-15-09/CHC-2008-4979.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ a b "Report - HPLA". July 14, 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-07-14.
- ^ a b https://planning.lacity.org/StaffRpt/InitialRpts/DIR-2017-1073.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Martin, Brittany (December 13, 2017). "How The Disaster Artist Painstakingly Re-created Tommy Wiseau's L.A. Los Angeles Magazine".