Bakery Building Named L.A. Cultural Monument
The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission has added the 62-year-old Van de Kamp’s Holland Dutch bakery building in Glassell Park to the city’s list of historic-cultural monuments.
Jay Oren, staff architect with the commission, said the bakery and corporate headquarters, reminiscent of a 16th-Century Dutch townhouse, “was part of the most successful corporate effort in the history of L.A. to establish image through architecture.”
The design complemented the windmill motif of Van de Kamp’s retail stores, the blue and white Dutch-girl uniforms of their staffs and product packaging.
The building, at 3020 San Fernando Road, has been vacated by Van de Kamp’s, which filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws in October, 1990. VDK Development Corp., its owner, has no current development plan, company spokesman Larry Mielke said.
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