Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses and Buildings in California

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• Inside LACMA’s plans to share its collection with a new Las Vegas museum: ‘I’m a West Coast booster’
• Sandwiches
• Top 10 most expensive places to buy in Los Angeles?
• Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
• Melissa Gilbert remembers 'Little House on the Prairie,' as it turns 50 The Excerpt
• Frank Lloyd Wright Before 1900
• Student & Family Programs
• Hollyhock House

A fiercely independent feminist who was immersed in the world of experimental theater, Aline flouted convention, first approaching Wright at the height of his personal scandals. Located in the Hollywood Hills, the Freeman House is the smallest of four Southern California textile block residences designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built during the 1920s. For nearly sixty years, Samuel and Harriet Freeman lived in the home. In 1986, at the time of Harriet’s death, the home was donated to the University of Southern California’s (USC) School of Architecture who stewarded the property until its sale in 2022. As part of a condition of the sale, the property is now under a conservation easement with the Los Angeles Conservancy.

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I think that had it been another actor, it could have been a very scary situation. I mean, I was nervous a lot of the time because I'm playing this woman who, at this age, fell in love and got married, but I was nowhere near that. And I mean, not only was I a virgin, I hadn't been on a date yet, and there I was delivering my first child.So I don't think any of that could happen today. I don't think that that kind of casting would exist today. I think they would have to cast a young man closer to 18, 19. I'm very grateful he was such a gentleman, and he was so trepidatious and so conscious of keeping me comfortable.

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The show proved a passion project for Michael Landon, who sought another surefire hit after rising to fame on the long-running Bonanza. Erstwhile theater actress Karen Grassle signed on as Caroline “Ma” Ingalls. And though Little House usually offered viewers comforting, familiar and often instructive entertainment, the series also boasted secrets and silliness, before and behind the camera. Variously described as Mayan, Aztec, Asian, Egyptian, and as a “California Romanza” by the architect himself, the Hollyhock House was a transitional structure for Wright. The building bridges the Prairie style of the preceding decades and his textile block structures of the 1920s. Wright’s client, Aline Barnsdall, was the heir of one of the largest independent oil producers in the United States.

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In 1896 Frank Lloyd Wright was still in his 20s and delighting in his new house designs, beginning with the Winslow House. Some of this design in mass and linear orientation appeared later in the 1908 Unity Temple. The Winslow house was Wright's new design, low to the ground, horizontal inclination with hipped roof, clerestory windows, and a dominating center fireplace. The new style, what would become known as Prairie Style, attracted great attention in the neighborhood.

His son served as an ASL interpreter as he greeted fans. Jonathan Gilbert, Melissa Gilbert's younger brother, has lived a private life the past 40 years since leaving "Little House." Gilbert played Laura for nine seasons, growing up from the little girl in braids to a married mom. She has starred in TV movies and series, appeared on "Dancing with the Stars," wrote two memoirs, served as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, and acts in plays and musicals.

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He relied on his son, Lloyd, and his employee, Rudolph Schindler, to oversee the construction work on the Barnsdall House. Over the course of the project, delays, cost overruns, contention with the general contractor, and the difficulty of international communication strained the relationship between Wright and Barnsdall. Wright was dismissed from the project in 1921, and Schindler finished the house (mostly the bedrooms) on his own accord. In 1923, Barnsdall again hired Wright to design a small kindergarten on the west side of the site for her daughter and the neighborhood children. Although the foundations for this project, affectionately called Little Dipper, were laid in 1923, the city halted the project, and the abandoned work was subsequently turned into a garden seating area by Schindler in 1924.

Hollyhock House

At the same time, Caroline gets an invitation to the 25th high school reunion in the same city, so they travel there together. Ellin turned this devotion into a weekly podcast Wild Nights on the Prairie with Ray Ellin. The show features guests and conversations regarding life lessons learned from the iconic TV show, which lasted nine seasons.

Despite the seeming symmetrical logic of the structure, the experience of the Stewart house is a many-sided affair. Because of its placement on an ungraded, fairly sloping lot, the view from the front is vastly different than from the rear, where the house rises sharply from a ravine. A unifying, vaguely Oriental motif graces 87 pairs of windows in the house, giving a subtle decorative air to the house’s otherwise bold organization of masses. Wright created drama through space and light, while also attending to the business of creating an efficient machine for living. Almost everything about the house impresses the first-time visitor, from the warmth of its redwood exterior to the cruciform symmetry of its overall form, to its seamless integration into the tree-filled setting, to the light-sensitive openness of its interior.

Only a few Frank Lloyd Wright buildings are accessible to the general public. And even then, these sometimes difficult-to-maintain structures are closed for renovations. A number of Frank Lloyd Wright constructions can be found outside of LA and San Francisco.

Well, what's amazing at this point now is I'm seeing on social media, and people are showing me pictures, and I am experiencing myself watching the show with our grandchildren, which is unbelievable. There are at least four generations of people who grew up with this show and there's a new generation that's watching it now. And that is another part of it that's just so mind-boggling to me. I was going to go have this adventure making a movie. I didn't know it would be a successful television series certainly, and I had no idea then that I'd still be here talking about it and reveling in it 50 years later. And seeing it through the eyes of this next generation makes it all the more special.

Nose job, boob job, fillers, Botox, staying young, staying thin. And as I started to age and my body started to change and my face started to change, I started to feel uncomfortable and doubt myself, and then it became harder to stay young and thin. And I really wanted to find a place where I could just relax and enjoy my life. I was tired of feeling like I had to do something to be what everybody else wanted me to be.

At four days, counting the day that I went in by myself-ish, so that I could get my bearings before seeing all those people. The thing that moves me the most is when people tell me the stories of how Little House on the Prairie impacted their lives, what their childhoods were like, and why it was so important to them. A lot of people have said, and I'm sure will continue to say to me, look, you were my escape from a bad childhood. The Ingalls family, which was our family on the show, was the family I wish I had. Michael Landon was the father I wish I had, and that I find incredibly moving.We taught a lot of lessons and provided a lot of escapist entertainment at times with our goofier episodes. It's so amazing to me that it's lasted this many years in as strongly as it has.

As part of the 50th anniversary, there are dozens of events across the country, including Arngrim's one woman show, "Confessions of a Prairie Bitch." They stood in lines ― for more than five hours at times ― for a chance to meet their favorites and get selfies. They thanked the stars for being a big part of their childhood. The Ward Willits House represents a radical step forward in Wright’s emerging design maturity and is considered his first true Prairie house. Orpha Westcott, considered one of Springfield’s most prominent and progressive women, is credited with suggesting Wright as the architect for the Westcotts’ new home.