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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 ...
The Sowden House's early history and design. Up until 1924, Frank Lloyd Wright and his son were working together on projects in Los Angeles when the older Wright said, "I'm fed up here.You're ...
A month after "the scent of death" was detected in its basement by a trained cadaver dog, the Lloyd Wright-designed John Sowden House in Los Angeles -- a purported site of the Black Dahlia murder ...
The John Sowden House has been shrouded in the mystery of the Black Dahlia all this time. It has switched hands a few times over the years, selling most recently for $3.85 million, ...
Among his last projects was the 1963 John P. Bowler house, known as the "Bird of Paradise" House, in Rancho Palos Verdes using blue fiberglass for projecting roof fins, and the master plan and building designs for a 1970 shopping center in Huntington Beach, at Warner and Springdale streets south of Long Beach.
He independently designed the Henry Bollman house in 1922 in the Sunset Square neighborhood in Hollywood and the iconic Mayan-modernist John Sowden House in 1926 in the Los Feliz District of Hollywood. Wright's disciple Arata Endo constructed the KÅshien Hotel in the 1930s, heavily influenced by the architecture of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
Hodel purchased the Sowden House in 1945 and lived there from 1945 until 1950. The structure, built in 1926 by Lloyd Wright, the son of the noted American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has since been registered as a Los Angeles historic landmark. By the late 1940s, Hodel was effectively a polygamist.
Sowden House. Sorry to start with something so obvious, but it really is one of the most remarkable buildings/houses/Aztec spaceships from the 20th century. And, if you think you haven’t seen it ...