Storer House
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Style
- Mayan Revival
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- the wrights of los angeles
The Storer House is a residence at 8161 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Mayan Revival style for homeopathic physician John Storer and completed in 1924.
the building
Concrete textile block. The two-story house is built of concrete textile blocks, cast alternately plain and with engraved geometric patterns, assembled into a modular masonry skin.
Terraces and glass doors. Set on a hillside with a T-shaped plan, the house is reached by a series of terraces leading to five glass doors on the south facade, each separated by concrete piers.
Split-level plan. The roughly 3,000-square-foot interior holds three bedrooms, a den, and three bathrooms: the dining room and kitchen sit on the lower level, the living room on the upper level, with additional rooms in a separate adjoining mass.
the style
Wright rendered the house in the Mayan Revival style using his concrete textile block system, in which modular blocks cast plain or with engraved patterns are knit together into massive, terraced walls. The Storer House was one of four textile-block houses Wright built in greater Los Angeles in the 1920s, alongside La Miniatura, the Ennis House, and the Freeman House.
the architect
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American architect, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin.
More on Frank Lloyd Wrightsignificance
The Storer House was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #96 in 1972 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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