Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings in L.A.
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4808 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
Hollyhock House is part of a complex of residences, theaters, shops and artist apartments designed for heiress Aline Barnsdall. While the entire complex was never realized, the house, two guest residences and a spring house were built. Wright described the architecture of Hollyhock House as California Romantic, a cross between Prairie style and his later textile block designs. The interiors include a reproduction of Wright's original living room furniture. Hollyhock House is recognized by the American Institute of Architects as one of the seventeen Wright buildings that are representative of his contribution to American culture.
Barnsdall lived in the house until 1927, when she donated it to the City of Los Angeles. After years of renovation, Hollyhock House re-opened for public tours in 2005. -
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Wright was commissioned to build Millard House by Alice Millard, a rare-book dealer for whom Wright had built a home in Highland Park, Illinois in 1906. Seeking to integrate the Millard House with the land, Wright designed the home to cling to the lot's steep ravine, nestled it among the trees, and fabricated the home's concrete blocks using sand, gravel and minerals found on the property. By using roughly textured, earth-toned blocks, he sought to blend the house with the color and form of the trees and hillside. While the design was in most ways a departure from Wright's prior work, it was consistent with his lifelong love of natural materials and his belief that buildings should complement their surroundings. He later said that Millard House belonged to the ground on which it stood -
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Ennis House 19242607 Glendower Avenue, Los Angeles, CA | (323) 660-0607
Built for Mabel and Charles Ennis and for a time called the Ennis-Brown House to honor its seventh owner, Augustus Oliver Brown, who donated it for public use, Ennis House is on the National Register of Historic Places, a Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Monument, and a California State Landmark.
Sited on a hillside overlooking the city of Los Angeles, Wright's last and largest concrete block house commands attention even from the street below it. Its commanding presence has not been lost on the Hollywood film industry and it has starred in many films, including Blade Runner, Black Rain and The House on Haunted Hill. -
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Freeman House 19241962 Glencoe Way, Los Angeles, CA | (323) 851-0671
1962 Glencoe Way, Hollywood
The Samuel Freeman House, one of three textile block houses built in the Hollywood Hills in the 1920s, was built for two members of the Los Angeles avant-garde who met Wright at Aline Barnsdall's. They asked Wright to design a home for them with a budget of $10,000. Wright seized the opportunity to design a concrete block house based on a 16-inch square that was estimated to cost $12,000. The final bill was $23,000.
Harriet Freeman lived in the house until 1986, when she donated it to the University of Southern California. The Freeman House suffered earthquake damage and is not currently available for tours -
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Private Residence
The Storer House was built in 1923 for Dr. John Storer, a homeopathic physician. Wright used the textile-block motif to fit the home into the hillside, trying to create the impression that the home was 'a man-made extension of the landscape'. -
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The George Sturges House is a single-family house, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built for George D. Sturges in the Brentwood Heights neighborhood of Brentwood, Los Angeles, California. Designed and built in 1939, the one-story residence is fairly small, 1,200 square feet, but features a 21-foot panoramic deck. The home is made out of concrete, steel, brick and redwood. Wright hired Taliesin fellow John Lautner to oversee its construction.
The Sturges House is the only structure in Southern California built in the modern style Wright called Usonian design. Other Wright homes in the area were built in the 1920s with interlocking, pre-cast concrete blocks, which he named 'textile block' style, and seen in such homes as the Ennis House. The home remains a privately owned residence, but can be viewed easily from the street. It was designated as L.A. Historic Cultural Monument -
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The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; is was to include a residential complex named Eaglefeather. -
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In 1952, Frank Lloyd Wright completed his last Los Angeles building, the Anderton Court Shops, a small three-story group of shops on fashionable Rodeo Drive in the downtown section of Beverly Hills, California.
The entrance to all the shops is off of an angular ramp which wraps around an open parallelogram as it leads upward to the shops. Four shops were envisioned with the penthouse space, an apartment. Like the Marin Civic Center, this is another example of a secular Wright building with a 'steeple'. The inverted 'V' front elevation stands out in sharp contrast to its traditional, flat-front urban neighbors. -
- total distance: 74 miles (119 km)
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