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.
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Building Type Location8161 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States 1 Completed Year Classification
Standing Status Building Type
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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.
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1. Storer House (Los Angeles, California) - Wikipedia
Site section, first sentence
The Storer House is a residence at 8161 Hollywood Boulevard
Site section, second sentence
The Storer House is located at 8161 Hollywood Boulevard in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood
Development section
Wright filed a notice of completion on October 27, 1924
Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
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.
In Style: Mayan Revival architecture, Infobox, architecture
architecture: Mayan Revival, Textile Block
Uses Element: Concrete, Wikipedia lead
The exterior is built of concrete textile blocks, which are alternately plain in design or decorated with engraved patterns.
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