Storer House

The Storer House stands on Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in October 1924 as one of four houses he built in the Los Angeles area during the 1920s using his experimental textile block construction method. That technique assembled hollow, patterned concrete blocks, cast with individually engraved decorative motifs, into walls held together by a hidden grid of steel rods and loops, producing what critics have described as a knitted-together appearance unlike ordinary poured or brick construction. Wright combined the method here with decorative elements drawing on Mayan Revival architecture, part of his broader search during this period for a genuinely American architectural vocabulary built from an industrial material rather than imported historical styles. The architecture critic Paul Goldberger later credited the house with combining Wright's technological experimentation in concrete with his enduring gift for making a house feel like a manmade extension of its hillside landscape. Recognized today as both a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and a National Register of Historic Places property, the Storer House is widely considered the best-preserved of Wright's Los Angeles textile block houses.