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3 unusual facts about Hollyhock House


Hollyhock House

An interesting feature is the glass corners, an early Wright idea later used at Fallingwater.

The Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House is a building in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a residence for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, built in 1919–1921.

The house and grounds were used as the temple of the Piranha Women in 1989's Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.


Barnsdall Art Park

Wright was often absent during the actual construction of Hollyhock House, due to the demands of another major commission, the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan.

The Social Significance of the Modern Drama

 239–260 (speculating that likely influence of Goldman's work on Aline Barnsdall's commission of Hollyhock House, a Frank Lloyd Wright mansion intended to establish a progressive theatrical community in the Los Angeles neighborhood, Olive Hill)


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