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The house consists of two buildings, the main house and a smaller chauffeur's apartment/garage, separated by a paved courtyard. Unlike the vertical orientation of the other three block houses, the Ennis House has a long horizontal loggia spine on the northern side, connecting public and private rooms to the south, and is very large at 6,200 sq ft (580 m 2). [9]
John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright. The house is noted for its use of ornamented textile blocks and for its striking facade, resembling (depending on the viewer's points of cultural reference) either a Mayan ...
Storer House is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles built in 1923. The structure is noteworthy as one of the four Mayan Revival style textile-block houses built by Wright in the Los Angeles area from 1922 to 1924.
Samuel-Novarro House West Facade. Samuel-Novarro House, also known as the Samuel-Novarro Residence, is a historic Mayan Revival single-family dwelling designed by Lloyd Wright in 1928. It is located at 5609 Valley Oak Dr. in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. [1] It is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #130. [2]
The Los Angeles Conservancy said Friday afternoon that 32 properties it considered historic because of their architectural or cultural significance were consumed by the fires, which have destroyed ...
In 1990, the Mayan Theater, with most of its lavish ornament intact, became a nightclub and music venue. It is designated as a Historic Cultural Monument. [8] In 2022, Daft Punk also streamed a video recording of a show at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles from their 1997 Daftendirektour.
the Henry Bollman House in Los Angeles by Lloyd Wright, 1922 [7] the Aurora Elks Lodge in Aurora, Illinois, 1926; the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles by Stiles O. Clements, 1927; the Petroleum Building, Houston, by the Anglo-American architect Alfred Bossom, a notable proponent of Mayan Revival, 1927; the Casino Club building in San Antonio, Texas ...
A Los Angeles Times writer said in 1973 that the "snail's-pace renovation" was still not complete. [172] In 1974, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley requested that the City Council provided $500.000 from the City Council to complete Hollyhock House's renovation, [141] [173] which was subsequently approved.