Descanso Tract

This is a mostly intact tract of mid-century post and beam homes built by Victor Sease. After Eugene Weston and Doug Byles left the office of Whitney Smith of Smith & Williams Architects, they formed a partnership Byles & Weston. They designed some speculative homes for Victor Sease in 1951 and 1953. Doug Byles was a USC graduate and studied under Calvin Straub. Eugene Weston studied at the Art Center.

Boundaries of Descanso Tract are Apperson: north, Haines Canyon: east, Day: south, Glory: west. The Victor Sease-built houses are concentrated on Haines Canyon and Apperson Street. Although not built by Victor Sease, 10300 Haines Canyon is included here. It is known as the Scott House and was designed by the late, great Pierre Koenig in 1953. The steel Scott house is L shaped with the carport filling the inside of the L. There are no windows open to west side (street side) of the house. The large window to the great room is on the south side of the house. This is one of his earliest steel houses and is a modest 1250 square feet. The Scott family still owns this house. ( Josquin from the Lotta Living discussion board must be credited for the research quoted here).

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10223 Haines Canyon	10231 Haines Canyon	10231 Haines Canyon (detail)	10240 Haines Canyon
10245 Haines Canyon	10278 Haines Canyon	10279 Haines Canyon	10300 Haines Canyon
10300 Haines Canyon	10300 Haines Canyon	6716 Apperson	6729 Apperson
6728 Apperson	6728 Apperson	6801 Apperson	6807 Apperson
6806 Apperson	6806 Apperson	6818 Apperson	6818 Apperson
6824 Apperson	6824 Apperson	6824 Apperson