OUR HISTORY: "CITY LIVING MEETS GARDEN OASIS"

The Stonehurst sits on 9 acres in Shadow Hills on the corner of Sunland and Stonehurst Ave. Besides the name of the street, it's name comes from the hand-laid stone work that dances across the main pathways and actual stonehurst heads that cover the property. The barn is one of the oldest structures in this part of Los Angeles county and was the host to some of the original Boyscout meetings in the area dating back to 1907. The barn doors you see today were part of the original horse stalls and were reclaimed and repurposed as new doors in 2015.  

The man who made Stonehurst as green as it is today, Joe Stromei, was the owner of the famous vintage clothing stores Aaardvark’s Odd Ark in the heart of Los Angeles famous for it's Hawaiian print shirts famously worn by Robin Williams and alike. The property was home to 500 chickens, 200 singing canaries, and countless fish. With a breathtaking South American Fig towering over the floral gardens and a cactus garden sprouting fresh fruits every spring and fall, it's a property unlike any other with a diverse vegetation mostly hand planted by Joe himself. His name is even still carved in the beam of the Greenhouse which still has all its original beams.

written by Shadow Hills Property Owners Association