Samuel Freeman House

Los Angeles, United States

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Completed in 1925 for jewelry salesman Sam Freeman and his wife Harriet, a teacher, the Samuel Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills is Frank Lloyd Wright's smallest of four concrete textile block houses built in Greater Los Angeles during the 1920s. Designed with Islamic and Maya architectural influences, the L-shaped structure comprises 12,000 concrete textile blocks—alternately plain or decorated with engraved patterns—and features double-story corner windows, multiple terraces, and a rooftop terrace. The house employs an inverted floor plan with living spaces on the upper level and bedrooms below, sitting on the hillside slope with support from textile-block retaining walls rather than a traditional foundation. Interior furnishings were designed by Wright's protégé Rudolph Schindler and Wright himself. The Freemans occupied the house for over fifty years, hosting avant-garde salons before Harriet donated it to the University of Southern California in 1984. A Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and National Register listing, the house was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake and underwent restoration in subsequent decades.

Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

Movement

modern architecture

Built: 1925
Type: Textile block house
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument
Place: Los Angeles, United States

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