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Hollyhock House - by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Public Tours of Hollyhock House
No reservation required.
For groups larger than ten people, reservations are required.
(Please see Group Tours note below.) *

Wednesday through Sunday
12:30, 1:30, 2:30 & 3:30 PM (Pacific)

$7 - General audiences
$3 - Students & Seniors
Free - Children under 12 (when accompanied by adult)
Tickets for tours can be purchased at the Municipal Art Gallery.
Closed on all major holidays
No photography is allowed during tours

From US 101 (heading South),
take the Hollywood Boulevard exit.
Turn left at the end of the exit ramp onto Hollywood Boulevard.
Turn right into the entrance to Barnsdall Art Park at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard.
Hollyhock House is at the top of the hill, in the center of the park.

From US 101 (heading North),
take the Vermont Avenue exit.
Turn right at the end of the exit ramp onto Vermont Avenue.
Turn left onto Hollywood Boulevard.
Turn left into the entrance to Barnsdall Art Park at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard.
Hollyhock House is at the top of the hill, in the center of the park.

The site is not in a particularly nice neighborhood, and I witnessed an arrest at the entrance to the park. However, despite the unfortunate circumstances of the house, it remains a breathtaking example of Wright’s extraordinary ability to relate the house to its site, offering a linked continuum of private and public spaces--including a gorgeous roofscape that overlooks the city. This and a remarkably friendly and knowledgeable staff make the Hollyhock House an important place to visit.

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History, Background and Context

Built between 1919 and 1921 for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, Hollyhock House is Frank Lloyd Wright’s first project in Los Angeles. Its namesake is abstracted and geometricized in much of the house’s design, including exterior walls and interior furniture.

Hollyhock House was the centerpiece of a mostly unrealized Wright master plan for a theater community set on a thirty-six acre site, "Olive Hill." Wright left much of the supervision of construction of Hollyhock House to his son, landscape architect Lloyd Wright, and to architect Rudolf Schindler, as Wright himself was working on the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (since destroyed).

In 1927, Aline Barnsdall donated the Hollyhock House and eleven surrounding acres to the City of Los Angeles for use as a public art park. It has been leased over the years to various arts organizations, necessitating a cycle of alteration and rehabilitation that is culminating in the large-scale rehabilitation which started in the fall of 1998. (The rehabilitation is being partly funded by the lease of the property to the Los Angeles Mass Transit Authority for subway construction adjacent to the park.) Today Hollyhock House is a part of Barnsdall Art Park, with a local art gallery, theater, and children’s activities.

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4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles
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