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It is one of the largest of a series of homes Wright called Usonian. The house was built with little support in the way of reinforcement or beams, probably not the best of ideas for a house on a hillside in earthquake country. The university is working to restore severe damage from earthquake and water, but repairs are costly, and progress has been slow. They hope it will eventually be a residence for distinguished visitors, and a setting for small salons, seminars, and meetings. Paul and Jean Hanna were ideal clients for Wright’s new ideas.
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Sold in the early 1990s to Howard and Carol Brandwein. Sold in 2016 to the George and Mary Garvey Living Trust. The Raymond Griffith House, 5230 Linwood Avenue, Laughlin Park CA.
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Construction, begun in 1937, continued in four stages over 25 years. The house was the first structure in the world to use Frank Lloyd Wright's hexagonal grid system, which has subsequently been used widely in American architecture. The Hannas lived in the house until giving it to Stanford in 1975. It housed four university provosts until suffering severe damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
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In the late 1950s, actor Errol Flynn rented here, throwing many notorious parties. House, 5226 East Exeter Boulevard, Phoenix AZ. Sold to Karen and Scott Robinson. Sold in 2009 to Corey and Marissa Hochman. Sold in 2011 to Zachary Rawling.
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Sold in 2007 to a trust owned by Diane Hall, aka actress Diane Keaton who did a renovation. Sold in 2010 to Sgl Assets LLC, aka David Segel. Sold in 2020 to Charles and Olivia Corwin.
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I didn’t want to do my work shifts from a hostel bunk bed or random cafés that stayed open late. (I’d be in Europe, thanks to an EU passport, and my gig was based in the states.) Paying for Airbnbs the entire trip would eat up way too much of my paychecks. It was kismet that just as I was starting to plan my travels, my friend sent me a video about a couple traveling the world and dog-sitting along the way, using an app called Trusted Housesitters. The Louis LaRue House, Mulholland Highway, Los Angeles CA.
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Some people think the Freeman House block design looks a little bit like flowers. Some of them were perforated and glazed, allowing additional light into the house. It was constructed in 1923 for Samuel and Harriet Freeman, two members of the Los Angeles avant-garde. They met Wright through Aline Barnsdall, who owned Hollyhock House. The Freemans asked Wright to design a home for them with a budget of $10,000.
One of the last of Wright’s Usonian homes, the Gordon House is based on the design for a modern home commissioned by Life magazine in 1938. Wright designed Blue Sky Mausoleum at the request of Darwin D. Martin, the secretary of the Larkin Soap Company (Wright’s first public commission) and Wright’s longtime friend. Though Wright conceived of Community Christian Church as “the church of the future,” wartime material shortages and restrictive building codes forced him to abandon many of his original visions.
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The Emmanuel and Geneva Gainsburg House, 1210 Journeys End Drive, La Cañada Flintridge CA. Wright also did the landscape design. Sold in 2001 to the Charles and Elisa Callow Trust. Restored by architect Richard Corsini. Sold in 2013 to the Celia Ann Shapiro and Antonio Moreira Joint Revocable Trust.
The San Francisco area is also home to eight of them, including two of his most important works. Wright had previously used hexagonal grids as the basis for the elaboration of some projects like the Cudney House in San Marcos (1928), the San Marcos Hotel project, and the Steel Cathedral in New York (1936). But none of those projects achieved the complexity and richness of possibilities that the Hanna House did.
Challenged by Herbert Jacobs to create a decent home for $5,000, Wright’s design for “Jacobs I” (as it came to be known) is widely considered to be Wright’s first Usonian structure. At just 880-square feet, Wright’s smallest residential design manages to boil down Wright’s design philosophy to its essence. The little cottage perched high above Mirror Lake is muscularly geometric, seeming at once to hug the earth and burst forth from it. Owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Usonian-style Pope-Leighey House is nestled within a small wooded grove on the same site as the Trust’s historic Woodlawn mansion in Alexandria, VA. Each element of Wright’s only synagogue was carefully designed with a contemporary approach to Jewish faith, history and religious practice. Wright was 22 years old and newly married when he borrowed $5,000 from his employer, Louis Sullivan, to build a home for his future family.
Once they got engaged, he sold the house to his parents Otto and Amie. The house had 24 owners over 100 years. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 1980. Sold in 2014 to James Yunker and Suzanne Yousefzadeh.
Like Wright, they believed that a house had a significant impact on the social development of its inhabitants. As educators, the Hannas were concerned with the environmental component of the learning process and a building’s ability to adapt to changing conditions. They found that Wright’s ideas about organic architecture and the role of the machine resonated with their own values. For the Hannas, Wright was a perfect fit both architecturally and pedagogically. The Hanna house on Stanford’s campus is also known as the “Honeycomb House” — this because its design was based on the hexagonal geometric figure (the honeycomb) produced by bees.
Wright did a home for Griffith at another location in 1936. The W. E. Sauer House Addition, 6309 McPherson Street, St. Louis MO. The Tule Mat House, Imperial Valley CA. Later built by the Adams family in 1939, see below, with a different roof. The James Derby House, 2535 East Chevy Chase Drive, Glendale CA.
As of 2014, the address doesn't exist, but there is an apartment building at 940 and 946, 1927 and 1925 respectively. Both buildings appear to have been large homes as originally designed. The Raymond and Bertha Griffith Ranch House, 4900 Dunman Avenue, formerly 4965 Rigoletto Street, Woodland Hills CA. In a time when most people did not have any air conditioning, the Griffith house had three air-conditioners and three climate zones. Featured in Architectural Forum, June 1938. Wright also designed the Yucca-Vine grocery store for the Griffiths, since destroyed.
Eric Lloyd Wright was the project architect. The Frank Howard Remodel, Oak View Drive, Encino CA. Original house was built in 1939. Sold in early 1960s to Edward Coolidge. Sold in 2004 to Marvin and Helen Adelberg.
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