Frank Lloyd Wright's houses in Los Angeles

Between 1919 and 1939 Wright built a handful of houses across Los Angeles, four of them tests of a patented concrete block system that his son Lloyd shuttled between sites to supervise. They range from a city-owned museum you can walk into to a private hilltop that admits nobody, and the difference in their fortunes is mostly a matter of who paid for the repairs. Each entry notes what was built, for whom, and what condition the fabric is in now.

Places in this collection

• Sturges House — The only Usonian house Wright built in California, commissioned by Lockheed engineer George D. Sturges and his wife and supervised on site…
• Ennis House — The last and largest of the four Los Angeles textile block houses, assembled from more than 27,000 interlocking pre-cast blocks set on a co…
• Freeman House — Samuel and Harriet Freeman were a young bohemian couple with far less money than the Ennises or Alice Millard, and they kept the house as a…
• Millard House — Known as La Miniatura, this is the earliest of Wright's textile block houses and the first test of the patented system he would repeat thre…
• Hollyhock House — Aline Barnsdall, heir to an oil fortune, bought a 36-acre hilltop on the eastern edge of Hollywood while Wright was in Tokyo on the Imperia…

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