Albert Van Luit Complex

Albert Van Luit Complex
Albert Van Luit Complex, photo by Charles J. Fisher, 2016

Albert Van Luit Complex, Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #1116

Built: 1950, 1965  Declared: 05/18/2016

The Van Luit property in Atwater Village consists of two buildings, each part of the manufacturing and sale of wallpaper for Van Luit and Company, the first wallpaper manufacturing business in California. The oldest building on site, a daylight factory designed by James Raymond Watt, Jr. in 1950, is located toward the south side of the site. The second building, built in 1965, was designed by master architect Edward Abel Killingsworth in the International Style, and housed the showroom and company offices. Killingsworth designed many commercial and residential buildings in Southern California, most notably four houses in the Case Study program.