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Child of the Sun is a collection of buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on the campus of the Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida. The twelve original buildings were constructed between 1941 and 1958.
The Samuel Freeman House (also known as the Samuel and Harriet Freeman House) is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California built in 1923. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
In 2008, the National Park Service submitted ten Frank Lloyd Wright properties to a tentative World Heritage list. [8] [9] It grew to 11 structures across seven U.S. states in July 2011. [10] [11] The nominated buildings included two of Wright's studios; two office buildings; four private residences; and one museum, church, and government ...
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The restoration project won awards from the California Council of the American Institute of Architects and the Los Angeles Conservancy. [15] In 2005, The New York Times wrote that the Storer House "is widely considered the best-preserved Wright building in Los Angeles." [10] Silver put it on the market in 2001 for $3.5 million.
The Anderton Court Shops building was completed in 1952, as Frank Lloyd Wright's final Los Angeles building. It consisted of a small three-story group of shops on fashionable Rodeo Drive in the downtown section of Beverly Hills, California. The building was restored and renovated in 2024 as a flagship store for Givenchy. [2]
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 Sturges House is the only structure in Southern California built in the modern style Wright called Usonian design. [4] 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 .