Gregory Ain Avenel Cooperative Housing Project – Silver Lake

If you live in the Silver Lake area, this complex likely looks familiary to you. You’have probably driven by this property and simply thought it was an example of cool Silver Lake mid-century modern architecture. That it is, but the Avenel Cooperative Housing Project has an interesting history.

After WWII the Federal Housing Administration provided funding for houses, most of which were single family homes.  During this period, when home building was in full swing, a group of 10 families pooled their resources (about $11,000 each), bought ½ acre of land and set Gregory Ain to the task of building a cooperatively owned multi-family complex.  These families were looking for affordable housing with modern style and easy indoor-outdoor flow and Gregory Ain did not disappoint.  By 1948 the project was completed and is now registered on the National Register of Historic Places.

The property consists of 2 buildings, each with 5 dwellings with their own views and terraces. The garages face Avenel Street but the homes zigzag up the hill and provide residents with lovely views of the Hollywood Hills.  If you have not seen one of these homes, you owe it to yourself to take a look. They are all approximately 900sf but designed in such a way that the walls are movable panels so the house can be configured and reconfigured as desired with the option of having 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms at any given time.

These units don’t come on the market often; however, two of them were sold just last year.  

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Jenny Durling, Broker
L.A. Property Solutions
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