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27-540: The Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California , was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright originally as a residence for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall (built, 1919–1921). The house is now the centerpiece of the city's Barnsdall Art Park . It is noted for developing an influential architectural aesthetic, which combined indoor and outdoor living spaces. In July 2019, along with seven other buildings designed by Wright in

54-519: A Los Angeles Times survey of experts in December 2008. In 2005, Project Restore, a non-profit organization dedicated "to the historic restoration and preservation of the civic integrity of the City of Los Angeles," initiated a 10-year restoration project. The restoration included work on the building's floor, wood, doors, windows, art stone, and plaster. In January 2015 it was announced that, following

81-600: A dozen bus lines run on the major thoroughfares, including Metro 's Rapid and Local service lines. Los Angeles Department of Transportation 's DASH shuttle lines, serving East Hollywood, Hollywood, and the Griffith Observatory , also operate in the area. The 101/Hollywood Freeway cuts northwest from downtown Los Angeles , through Hollywood, to the San Fernando Valley . Thirteen percent of East Hollywood residents aged 25 and older had earned

108-481: A four-year degree by 2000, an average figure for the city and the county, but the percentage of residents with less than a high school diploma was high for the county. Schools within East Hollywood's borders are: 34°05′25″N 118°17′31″W  /  34.090259°N 118.291927°W  / 34.090259; -118.291927 Bas-relief Too Many Requests If you report this error to

135-522: A ranch called Westwood and became UCLA . The old Southern Branch campus then became Los Angeles Junior College, which was later renamed Los Angeles City College . In 1930, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital was formed when Kaspare Cohn Hospital moved from East Los Angeles to a new building on Fountain Avenue and was renamed. US 101 , the Hollywood Freeway , was built between 1947 and 1949. In

162-418: Is concealed with a decorative flap. The hollyhock (Aline Barnsdall's favorite flower) is used as a central theme to the house, with many symmetrical decorations adapting the plant's general appearance. Planters are decorated with the motif and filled with the plants themselves, and Wright's stained glass windows feature a highly stylized hollyhock pattern. An interesting feature is the mitered glass corners at

189-786: Is located south of the Hollywood Freeway and outside the boundaries set by The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council. (Melrose Hill is within the Hollywood Studio District Neighborhood Council .) Additionally, the Times does not mention Virgil Village , but the neighborhood is within the boundaries set by the Times . East Hollywood is served by the Metro B Line subway which runs north–south along Vermont Avenue and east–west along Hollywood Boulevard . Metro subway stations include: Over

216-527: The Mapping L.A. project of the Los Angeles Times , East Hollywood borders Los Feliz to the north and Silver Lake , about 4 miles from Downtown Los Angeles to the east. It also borders Wilshire Center to the south and Hollywood on the west. According to the Times , East Hollywood includes the smaller neighborhoods of Thai Town , Little Armenia and Melrose Hill . However, Melrose Hill

243-463: The Mayan Revival style ), leaded art glass in the windows, a grand fireplace with a large abstract bas-relief , and a moat . Water is meant to flow from a pool in the courtyard through a tunnel to this inside moat, and out again to a fountain. The front doors are stepped similarly to the entryway. The split doors rest on pins and swing open easily despite their massive weight. The keyhole

270-662: The World Heritage List as part of a submission called "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright" in July 2019. When Hollyhock House together with the seven other buildings in the U.S. were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List, it was the first time that modern American architecture had been recognized by that organization. As with many of Wright's residences, Hollyhock House has an "introverted" exterior with windows that seem hidden from

297-536: The 20th century, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is the first time modern American architecture has been recognized on the World Heritage List. Aline Barnsdall originally intended the house to be part of an arts and live-theater complex on a property known as Olive Hill, but the larger project was never completed. This was Wright's second project in California (the first one being

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324-665: The George C. Stewart House, 1909, in Montecito ). Atypically for Wright, he was not able to personally supervise much of the construction due to his preoccupation with designing the Imperial Hotel in Japan at the time. He delegated many of the responsibilities involved in completing the house to his assistant, Rudolph Schindler , and his son, Lloyd Wright . The elder Wright was fired from the project in 1921 due to cost overages on

351-637: The Piranha Women in 1989's Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death . The Friends of Hollyhock House (FOHH) helps to increase public awareness of Frank Lloyd Wright, Aline Barnsdall, and Hollyhock House through public tours, special events, and the Friends of Hollyhock House Library, a small research library containing books and articles on Wright and Barnsdall. All docents are members of FOHH. East Hollywood, Los Angeles In

378-404: The area's earthquakes. There were a considerable number of revisions. Two smaller structures, called Studio Residences A and B, were built on the grounds. Residence A still stands. Barnsdall also commissioned a private kindergarten which was never built. The property also includes a smaller building designed by modernist architect Richard Neutra . The house and grounds were used as the temple of

405-490: The early 20th century, the East Hollywood area was a farming village that also encompassed some of what is now Los Feliz . Parts of the neighborhood were formerly known as Prospect Park. In 1910, the towns of Hollywood and East Hollywood approved annexation to the City of Los Angeles in order to tap into the city water supply. In 1914, Children's Hospital was relocated from downtown L.A. to Vermont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard . In 1916 steel magnate Andrew Carnegie donated

432-612: The extensive renovations, the house would once again open for tours on 13 February. The 24-hour event drew large crowds through the night, with many waiting in line for over three hours for admittance. In 2015, the National Park Service submitted the Hollyhock House along with nine other Frank Lloyd Wright properties to a tentative list for designation as a World Heritage Site . Revised proposals were submitted in 2018. Eight properties were ultimately inscribed on

459-472: The floor. Other notable rooms include a child's play area as well as a modernist kitchen, which long housed the museum gift shop. Like many houses designed by Wright, Hollyhock House proved to be better as an aesthetic work than as a livable dwelling. Water tended to flow over the central lawn and into the living room, and the flat roof terraces were conceived without an understanding of Los Angeles's rains. The cantilevered concrete also did not stand up well to

486-437: The highest population densities, according to the 2000 census, with the population per square mile: In 2022, there were 528 homeless individuals in East Hollywood. According to The East Hollywood Neighborhood Council, East Hollywood is bounded by Western Avenue on the west, Hollywood Boulevard on the north, Hoover Street on the east, and the Hollywood Freeway on the south. It contains the following districts: According to

513-479: The median age for residents was 31, about average for city and county neighborhoods; the percentage of residents aged 19 to 34 was among the county's highest. The neighborhood was "moderately diverse" ethnically within Los Angeles, the statistics being Latino people of any race , 60.4%; Asians , 15.5%; non-Hispanic Whites , 17.5%; blacks , 2.4%; and others, 4.1%. El Salvador (21.2%) and Mexico (20.1%) were

540-551: The money to construct the Cahuenga Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library on Santa Monica Boulevard. In the early 1920s, Barnsdall Park was built. The 1920s was also a time of massive immigration into East Hollywood. Armenian immigrants established the community that is now Little Armenia . The University of California Southern Branch, needing more space, moved west at the end of the 1920s to

567-432: The most common places of birth for the 66.5% of the residents who were born abroad—which was a high percentage compared to Los Angeles as a whole. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $ 29,927, considered low for the city, and high percentages of households earned $ 40,000 or less. Renters occupied 91.3% of the housing stock, and house- or apartment-owners held 8.7%. The average household size of three people

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594-485: The project. Disillusioned by the costs of construction and maintenance, Barnsdall donated the house to the city of Los Angeles in 1927 under the stipulation that a fifteen-year lease be given to the California Art Club for its headquarters. The club was there until 1942 when the house was almost demolished. The house has been used as an art gallery and as a United Service Organizations (USO) facility over

621-438: The summer of 1999, three Metro Red Line subway stations opened, connecting East Hollywood more efficiently to the rest of the city. The 2000 U.S. census counted 73,967 residents in the 2.38-square-mile East Hollywood neighborhood —or 31,095 people per square mile, the third-highest population density in the city. In 2008, the city estimated that the population had increased to 78,192 - or 32,853 people per square mile. In 2000

648-433: The windows; an early idea Wright later used at Fallingwater . Wright notably referred to the architecture of Hollyhock House as "California Romanza", borrowing from a musical term translating to "freedom to make one's own form." Hollyhock House features an entertainment room immediately to the right of the entrance. This room contains possibly the first built-in entertainment center , complete with LP -sized cabinets along

675-406: The yard, and is not easy to decode from the outside. The house is arranged around a central courtyard with one side open to form a kind of theatrical stage (never used as such), and a complex system of split levels , steps and roof terraces around that courtyard. The design features exterior walls that are tilted back at 85 degrees (which helps provide a "Mayan" appearance sometimes referred to as

702-482: The years. Beginning in 1974, the city sponsored a series of restorations, but the structure was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake . It was again restored. The U.S. Department of the Interior designated Hollyhock House a National Historic Landmark in 2007. It was the seventh site in the city of Los Angeles to receive that designation. The house was included in a list of all time "top ten" Los Angeles houses in

729-481: Was average for Los Angeles. The percentages of never-married women (33.3%) and men (42.6%) were among the county's highest. One-fifth of the 3,281 families were headed by single parents, a high rate for Los Angeles. In 2000 there were 1,509 veterans, or 2.8% of the population, a low rate compared with the rest of the city and county. These were the ten neighborhoods or cities in Los Angeles County with

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