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When the temperature is high and the housing market hits its August cool, I turn to John Keats’s “To Autumn,” which sets to verse the beauty in these unfairly-maligned Dog Days of Summer when “warm days will never cease” and “summer has o’er-brimm’d [our] clammy cells.” Alas, poetry can only do so much to assuage those “whoever seeks abroad,” so on Saturday this bird is flying over to the Westside to see beauty at its most communal: Multifamily housing.
Frances Anderton quite literally wrote the book on multifamily housing in LA and is giving a walking tour of some of Santa Monica’s most renowned multi-unit homes: hundred-year-old bungalow courts, Mid-century modern garden apartments and stacked compounds, not to mention some contemporary iterations. These homes were once — and, to a certain extent, still are — unfairly maligned, but Frances Anderton reintroduces the beauty that is intrinsic to community homes. So close your books, throw some shrimp in Zip-Loc, and join her!
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