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Hollyhock House

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Hollyhock House stands in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the oil heiress and arts patron Aline Barnsdall and completed in 1921 as the centerpiece of a planned arts complex on a hilltop site she called Olive Hill. The house takes its name from a stylized, abstracted hollyhock flower motif, drawn from Barnsdall's favorite flower, that Wright repeated throughout the building's ornamental concrete detailing, columns and art glass. Its design blends elements Wright associated with pre-Columbian Mesoamerican architecture, particularly in its massing and battered walls, with the horizontal planes and interlocking geometric volumes of his earlier Prairie style houses, making it a transitional work between those two phases of his career. Barnsdall donated the house and surrounding grounds to the City of Los Angeles in 1927, and it has since operated as a public museum within Barnsdall Art Park. It was included in 2019 among the eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Facts
Building Type
House museum 1
Location
Los Angeles, California 1
Completed Year
1921 2
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
Building Type (category)
Museum 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Connections

Has Building Type

House, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Mayan Revival architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Hollyhock House - Wikipedia

Uses Element

Stucco, Architectural Materials
Source Hollyhock House - Wikipedia
Timber, Architectural Materials
Source Hollyhock House - Wikipedia
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Hollyhock House - Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1
    The Hollyhock House is a house museum at Barnsdall Art Park in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Lead paragraph, sentence 1, place
    The Hollyhock House is a house museum at Barnsdall Art Park in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.
  • Lead section, second paragraph
    The house and its outbuildings, completed in 1921, were the only parts of the complex to be built
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Hollyhock House stands in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright for the oil heiress and arts patron Aline Barnsdall and completed in 1921 as the centerpiece of a planned arts complex on a hilltop site she called Olive Hill. The house takes its name from a stylized, abstracted hollyhock flower motif, drawn from Barnsdall's favorite flower, that Wright repeated throughout the building's ornamental concrete detailing, columns and art glass. Its design blends elements Wright associated with pre-Columbian Mesoamerican architecture, particularly in its massing and battered walls, with the horizontal planes and interlocking geometric volumes of his earlier Prairie style houses, making it a transitional work between those two phases of his career. Barnsdall donated the house and surrounding grounds to the City of Los Angeles in 1927, and it has since operated as a public museum within Barnsdall Art Park. It was included in 2019 among the eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings inscribed together as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  • In Style: Mayan Revival architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Several styles including Mayan Revival architecture
  • Uses Element: Timber, Wikipedia lead
    The exterior walls are made of hollow clay tiles, wood frames, and stucco, sloping inward at their tops.
  • Uses Element: Stucco, Wikipedia lead
    The exterior walls are made of hollow clay tiles, wood frames, and stucco, sloping inward at their tops.
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2. Wikidata: Hollyhock House
  • Wikidata Q2144588, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q2144588, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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