Larchmont Chronicle
August 2011
ROSSMORE-BEVERLY (Continued from page 7) the building be known by the antiquated and dull “BeverlyRossmore.” Now it would be known by the sexy new name of the “Rossmore-Beverly.” Housing shortage It would take a world war to finally cause the completion of the long abandoned apartment house. The swelling ranks of the military were constantly on the move and between the soldiers and others returning to war production work, there came to pass a great housing shortage, particularly in Southern California. This problem became so acute that the Army stepped in and began looking for a way to help ease the crisis. Popping up on their radar was the gigantic unfinished apartment house at 410 N. Rossmore Ave. Seeing four stories already structurally completed, the Army Corps of Engineers believed they could quickly rework the site with just what was already finished and have the building open in double time. The order of the day for the Army was, of course, speed not aesthetic beauty, with their design on a far more modest scale than either Maltzman’s or Underwood’s. But by chop-
ping the grand double height public rooms into two separate floors, the Army was still able to create 78 spacious apartments in less than half the floor height of either previous design. And while the simple, somewhat deco exterior may have looked vaguely like a hospital, the Army Corps of Engineers managed to do something no one else had ever been able to do before, and that was to actually complete 410 N. Rossmore Ave. Today, 410 N. Rossmore Ave. leads a quiet, dignified exis-
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tence as a highly respectable high-end building in a highend neighborhood. Although
not as outwardly glamorous as its exalted neighbors, 410 N. Rossmore Ave. can, nonethe-
less, turn up its nose in pride over its much more unique origins.
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