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Hollyhock House Docent-led tours of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed residence reveal a structure Wright called his “California Romanza.” Hollyhock House is a National Historic Landmark known as the Aline Barnsdall Complex. Its style bridges from Wright’s earlier Prairie influence to the textile concrete blocks of the later Ennis, Storer and Millard houses. Furnishings include the original dining room ensemble by Frank Lloyd Wright, desks and tables from a 1946 renovation by Lloyd Wright, and some original as well as reproductions of the living room furniture. History of the Park Located at the crest of a hill in the middle of a large city block, Barnsdall Park had been an olive grove when Aline Barnsdall visited Los Angeles in 1913 with plans to develop a theater company. Six years later, she commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a complex where she would live and manage a company, but she came to believe that the best use of her property was as a public park. She donated two Wright structures and eleven and a half acres to the City of Los Angeles in 1927. The spirit of Barnsdall’s gift was to provide an active arts center for the community. In the late 1960’s, with the assistance of the City and the Junior League of Los Angeles, the Junior Arts Center was built. Ground was broken for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 1970. The park was closed in 2000 for major renovations, and re-opened in 2002. Today the Gallery, Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Art Center and Hollyhock House attract visitors from the local community as well as from throughout the world. |
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Hollyhock House HOLLYHOCK HOUSE TOURS Tours are conducted every hour on the half hour, 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday. Neither Hollyhock House nor adjacent garden are available for private events. Admission policies and information Hollyhock House Programs Hollyhock House tours for school classes are offered Tuesday through Friday year round at no cost through the Museum Education and Tours Program at the Municipal Art Gallery. The same program offers internships for college students year round as well as tours and other programs for adults and children. Hollyhock House fall lecture series on Architecture in Film Hollyhock House has planned a Wednesday lecture series on Architecture in Film this fall. Gifts of Tiffany vase and Persian Rug to Hollyhock House Randell Makinson and former FOHH president, Robert Leary, have purchased a Louis Comfort Tiffany Favrille vase and given it to Hollyhock House. Edward Fields has donated a custom made Persian-style rug for the dining room. The rug is a skilled approximation of Aline Barnsdall’s original “golden” Persian rug. Hollyhock House Info: Please call (323) 662-8139 or e-mail, met_gcifarelli@sbcglobal.net for details. Barnsdall Family Photo Albums On Loan Michael Devine, Aline Barnsdall’s grandson, has loaned two valuable family photo albums to Hollyhock House so they can be scanned and thus made part of our research archive. The bulk of the photos ( document Aline Barnsdall’s life between 1917 (the birth of her daughter Betty) and about 1935. The second album primarily is a record made by Aline’s daughter, Betty, of a year (probably 1933) spent at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship in Wisconsin, including a very young John Lautner. |
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