West Hollywood Heights is a very small community in the Hollywood Hills West. Located just north of the Sunset Strip close to some of the best entertainment and dining in the city. West Hollywood Heights has quite an interesting reputation as well. Legend has it that the former site of 1230 Horn was a famous bordello during Prohibition.
Many stars one time called the following addresses home;
1127 1/2 Horn - Anthony Perkins
1131 Horn - Gloria Swanson (lived here when she made Sunset Blvd) Ava Gardner & James Dean are also believed to have lived here.
1210 Horn - Humphrey Bogart & Mayo Methot
1217 Horn - Bette Davis, Earl Foxe
1224 Horn - John Webb Dillon
1229 Horn - Aldous Huxley, Lena Horne, Werner Klemperer & Kim Hamilton, Penny Edwards
1230 Horn - Anthony Quinn, Francesco Quinn, Daniel Quinn, Jose Eber, Richard Grieco, Warren Zevon
Also on Horn (exact addresses unknown) - Marlene Dietrich, Anita Loos, John Garfield, C. Aubrey Smith
8726 Shoreham - Sir Cedric Hardwicke
8728 Shoreham - Paulette Goddard
8747 Shoreham - Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall, Ice Cube
8760 Shoreham - Merle Oberon, Patsy Kelly
8770 Shoreham - Lina Basquette & J. Pev Marley
8787 Shoreham "Shoreham Towers" has been home to Ellen Barkin & Gabriel Byrne, Humphrey Bogart & Mayo Methot, Ronald Colman, Joseph Cotton, Billy Daniels, Olivia de Haviland, Paulette Goddard, Alexander Godonuv, Miriam Hopkins, Evelyn Keyes, Peggy Lee, Mitchell Liesen, Diane Linkletter, Burgess Meredith, Mary Parker, David Lee Roth, Mamie Van Doren & Vivian Vance.
The West Hollywood Heights Neighborhood Association was formed by merging with the former Shoreham Heights Neighborhood Association. The association now represents the residents of the 1100 & 1200 blocks of Horn Avenue, 8700 block of Shoreham Drive, 1100 block of Sherbourne Drive, 1100 & 1200 blocks of N. Clark Street, 1100, 1200 & 1300 blocks of N. Larrabee Street, and 1200 & 1300 blocks of Ozeta Terrace.
