Tag: Hollyhock House
Barnsdall opens its crafty doors
Barnsdall Arts, which includes the adult arts center and the junior arts center and gallery, is a creative treasure trove situated high on Olive Hill. Its closure during COVID-19 was an opportunity for the city-owned property to have some much-needed repairs. Now, four long years later, it’s fully open, again. And they had a party […]
World Heritage Site Hollyhock House reopens
The only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Los Angeles, Hollyhock House has reopened. The house has been closed since before the pandemic, during which time several renovations were made. The house was commissioned by Aline Barnsdall and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Named for Barnsdall’s favorite flower, Hollyhock House was finished in 1921 and is […]
New plantings beautify Barnsdall’s grove at historic Olive Hill
Barnsdall Art Park welcomed 40 new olive trees to Olive Hill on June 16 with the help of the Los Angeles Parks Foundation, Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, the Los Angeles Dept. of Recreation and Parks and the Dept. of Cultural Affairs. Barnsdall Park is an 11.5-acre cultural destination in East Hollywood. It is the location of […]
Phase 1 of Frank Lloyd Wright ‘Residence A’ rehab complete
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed a number of famous houses in Los Angeles. The first was Hollyhock House, built between 1919 and 1921 for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall on her 36-acre Olive Hill property above Hollywood Boulevard, on the west side of Vermont Avenue. She commissioned Wright to build a Mayan-inspired theater, cinema, commercial […]
Virginia Kazor was curator at lauded Hollyhock House
Hollyhock House, a 20th-century treasure designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, was recently added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is the only World Heritage site in Los Angeles, as well as the first such cultural site for California and the first modern architecture designation. Ridgewood Wilton resident Virginia Kazor was the longtime curator of the site. […]
God’s work: Frank Lloyd Wright, quintessential American modernist
The first time I became aware of the stunning power of architecture, I was 17 and walked into the terra-cotta cocoon of Grady Gammage Auditorium in Tempe, AZ. The building sparked a life-long interest in architecture, “the great mother art,” as Frank Lloyd Wright called it. Wright used 57 shades of terra-cotta in the auditorium. He […]
