By design, Wyvernwood was intended to build and foster community, providing quality housing for working-class people and using architecture to improve their lives. When it opened in 1939, Wyvernwood was the first large-scale garden apartment development to be built in Los Angeles. It followed progressive garden city planning principles of the time, including creating both […]

As an architect, Lloyd Wright couldn’t have been under a longer shadow. Yet the son of the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright was highly accomplished in his own right, designing some of Southern California’s most innovative structures and landscapes...

The City of Los Angeles will soon decide whether to allow the demolition of Wyvernwood, the city’s first large-scale garden apartment community. Wyvernwood’s current owner, Miami-based Fifteen Group, seeks to replace the historic community with a $2 billion mixed-use development known as the Boyle Heights Mixed-Use Community Project (or “New Wyvernwood”). Not surprisingly, the project’s […]

By 1940, the grip of the Great Depression was loosening. Rumors of the European and Asian wars engulfing the United States grew, fueling a build-up of aircraft plants and military bases.  The coming war would propel Los Angeles into the future, but the City of Angels already had a head start in that direction. Los […]

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