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S.208 – Aline Barnsdall
“Hollyhock” House, 4808 Hollywood Boulevard, Los
Angeles, California S.382 – Garage/Municipal Art
Gallery The garage building is its own work of art,
occupying two stories. A covered
walkway (esplanade) extends from the garage to the house. Photographed on January 27, 2015 and in
February 2005. In 1954 the garage was converted into what
was known locally as the Municipal Art Gallery to display an international
traveling exhibition entitled Sixty Years of Living Architecture. The motor court area was a lecture hall (up
to the wall displaying the Theodore Barnsdall plaque), and the esplanade
covered the ticket counter and a model of Wright’s Broadacre City. The lecture room was a temporary structure
designed by Wright. He also designed a similar exhibition
structure in New York City for the same traveling show (S.370). That New York site also displayed the “exhibition
house” (S.369), a full-sized Usonian model.
The New York exhibit was, of course, temporary, and its site now
houses the Guggenheim Museum (S.400). Click here for photos of house
exterior |
Architectural details
being stored near garage
Walkway to house
2005 Photos:
Click here for photos of house
exterior
New
02/06/2015 Revised
02/14/2015 |