Sturges House
- Architect
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Year
- 1939
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Collection
- the wrights of los angeles
The George Sturges House is a small, one-story Frank Lloyd Wright residence built in 1939 for George D. Sturges in Brentwood Heights, just 1,200 square feet but extended by a 21-foot panoramic deck. Built of concrete, steel, brick, and redwood, it's the only Southern California example of Wright's Usonian design — the other local Wright houses, like the Ennis House, use his 1920s precast 'textile block' method. Wright hired Taliesin fellow John Lautner to oversee its construction.
the building
The panoramic deck. A 21-foot deck extends off the small house, expanding its living space outward and giving it an outsized presence relative to its modest 1,200-square-foot footprint.
the style
Wright called this approach Usonian design, his vision for modest, site-specific American houses — a sharp departure from the ornamented precast-block Wright homes built elsewhere in Southern California in the 1920s.
the architect
Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Sturges House in 1939 and delegated on-site construction oversight to John Lautner, then a Taliesin fellow who would go on to his own career as a Los Angeles architect.
More on Frank Lloyd Wrightsignificance
Designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #577 on May 25, 1993. Actor Jack Larson owned the house from 1967 until his death in 2015; a planned 2016 benefit auction for the Bridges/Larson Foundation was withdrawn after no qualified bidder registered.
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