The Hollyhock House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, a building that was almost demolished in the 1940s, earned Los Angeles its first UNESCO World Heritage Site designation Sunday.
that the Hollyhock House was one of five Wright houses in L.A. that are underappreciated and largely misunderstood.Hollyhock House has undergone restorations since the 1940s, when it was almost demolished.
The Barnsdall project proved problematic for Wright. With cost overruns and incomplete buildings, the oil heiress fired the famed architect. Another architect who would create his own L.A. legacy, Rudolf Schindler, was working under Wright as project manager for the Hollyhock House. He was hired to finish the home. Wright’s son, Lloyd Wright, also worked on the house.Barnsdall never lived in the Hollyhock House and donated it to the city of Los Angeles in 1927.
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