The CHA 2015 Annual Meeting
The Crestwood Hills Association annual meeting will be held on Sunday, April 26th, 2015 at 6pm in the Crestwood Hills Park clubhouse. A community dinner will be held before the meeting, starting at 5pm.
Bring your families, come together as a community and learn what the Crestwood Hills Association volunteers have been up to over the last year, such as renovating the Crestwood Hills Archive building and redoing CHA communications—including this website!
Elections will also be held for board officers whose 2-year terms are up for review. To be able to vote, dues must be up-to-date. (Residents will be able to be pay this year’s dues at the meeting.)
Please mark your calendars and encourage your neighbors to attend. We look forward to seeing you there!
Cory Buckner Speaks at Palm Springs Modernism
Formerly the Mutual Housing Association, Crestwood Hills is one of the few fully realized postwar cooperative housing projects in the state of California.
Cory Buckner, architect, preservationist, owner of an original Crestwood Hills home and author of A. Quincy Jones and soon to be published Crestwood Hills: The Chronicle of a Modern Utopia spoke to a packed audience on her fascinating quest through the early history of Crestwood Hills to contemporary times.
In 1946, as returning servicemen experienced a housing shortage in Southern California, four veterans contemplated purchasing an acre of land in order to build four houses with a shared swimming pool. Word spread quickly among their friends and articles ran in local papers resulting in over 400 families interested in their idea of cooperative housing; thus began the Mutual Housing Association.
With the purchase of 800 acres on the edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, the MHA brought together leading figures in postwar architecture. The selection of architects was a joint venture between architects A. Quincy Jones, Whitney R. Smith, and structural engineer Edgardo Contini. Their master plan used the rugged terrain to provide a range of 350 small lots for affordable single-family houses, ranging from just under 1,000 square feet to 1,500 square feet.
Approximately eighty of the MHA designed houses were completed. With the bravado characteristic of the immediate postwar period, the experimental forms of the MHA houses set a standard for excellence in postwar tract housing.
Content courtesy of Palm Springs Modernism. Photo courtesy of Alex and Kristin MacDowell.
Crestwood Hills Trick-Or-Treat Map
Join us on Nextdoor.com to add your home to our Trick-Or-Treat Map! Nextdoor.com is a social network for neighborhoods and many Crestwood Hills residents have joined to share helpful tips and news about our neighborhood!
