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 Imperial Hotel, and the house was meant to anchor a performing-arts colony that was never built. Wright took Barnsdall's favourite flower and abstracted it into an ornament repeated across the concrete, and the west facade reads as a temple front rather than a domestic elevation. Barnsdall began considering a gift to the City of Los Angeles not long after moving in, which is why it is a museum now and the other textile block houses are not; Wright's son Lloyd handled the later renovation work.

Coordinates: 34.1000128, -118.2943686

Part of Frank Lloyd Wright's houses in Los Angeles

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