General interest web sites related to Wright in California:

George Stewart House (S.160), Montecito, California, 1909.

• Construction: board-and-batten exterior.
• Plan/type: Prairie house, angles
• Other: The only Wright "Prairie" house in California

Pages:
• Stewart House Page [ooley]. Under construction.

Aline Barnsdall "Hollyhock House" (S.208), Los Angeles, California, 1917.

• Book: Frank Lloyd Wright : Hollyhock House and Olive Hill Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdall by Kathryn Smith. Click on the title to order from Amazon.com
• Hollyhock House by Frank Lloyd Wright [galinsky]
• Book: Barnsdall House: Frank Lloyd Wright (Architecture in Detail). Available from Amazon.com by clicking on the title.
• Book: Barnsdall Park : A New Master Plan for Frank Lloyd Wright's California Romanza (Landmarks (Washington, D.C.), 1.). Available from Amazon.com by clicking on the title.

Millard House, "La Miniatura" (S.214), Pasadena, California
First concrete textile-block construction house.

• Mrs. G. M. Millard House [Great Buildings]

Freeman House (S.216) Los Angeles (Hollywood Hills), California, 1923
Textile-block construction

• Freeman House article at L.A. Times
• Plans are shown in this Freeman House Page, with a link to discussion.

Ennis-Brown House (S.217) Los Angeles, California, 1923
Textile-block construction

• Ennis Brown House [official site]. Extensive site with history, images, information, and more
• Ennis house page [artifice]. Text and location information.

Mrs. Alice Millard House "La Miniatura" (S.214), Pasadena, California, 1923.

• Construction materials: textile block
• Other: Considered by Wright to be his first Usonian house

John Storer House (S.215) Hollywood, California.

Hanna House (S.235), Stanford, California
This hexagonal Usonian belongs to Stanford University. It is now closed due to damage from a recent earthquake, but restoration is under way.

• "Roofing key to Hanna House preservation" (Johns Manville Roofing Systems)
• Preservation article [service.com]
• Hanna House section of page at www.stanford.edu

Sidney Bazett House (S.259), Hillsborough, California, 1954.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: Brick, redwood.
• Plan/type: Usonian on L plan built with hexagonal modules

George Sturges House (S.272), Brentwood Heights, California, 1939.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: Brick, redwood.
• Plan/type: Rectangular, cantilevered out from a hillside
• Other: Originally designed for an Inkster, Michigan project

Arch Oboler Complex "Eaglefeather" (S.275, S.275A, S.275B, S.276), Malibu, California, 1955.

• Construction materials: includes desert rubblestone, wood siding.
• Plan/type: Five buildings on plans with rectilinear angles
• Client: Arch Obeler was a filmmaker and author.
• Other: This house was featured in Oboler's 1951 movie "Five"

Mrs. Clinton Walker House (S.306), Carmel, California, 1948.
This house was used in the 1959 film A Summer Place
Basic information:

• Construction materials: Stone.
• Plan/type: Hexagon with bedroom wing sticking out
• Other: Enlarged later by other architect. Located on a beach

• Image of house

Maynard Buehler House (S.309), Orinda, California, 1948. Basic information:

• Construction materials: concrete block and wood.
• Plan/type: L-plan with shed/butterfly roofed livingroom.
• Client: Maynard P. Buehler, designer of firearm accessories

V.C.Morris Shop (S.310) San Francisco, California, 1948

• V.C.Morris Store [Digital Imaging Project]
• Architecture and Interior Design Department at Triton College (River Grove, Illinois). A large computer rendering by H. Peterson is found in the second half of this home page.

Wilbur Pearce House (S.320), Bradbury, California, 1950.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: Douglas fir, mahogony.
• Plan/type: Hemicycle

Robert Berger House (S.330), San Anselmo, California, 1950.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: Desert rubblestone, wood.
• Plan/type: Single-wing Usonian house on a parallelogram.
• Other information: Includes a Wright-designed doghouse on the site

Arthur Mathews House (S.331), Atherton, California, 1950.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: brick, redwood, other.
• Plan/type: Three sides of a parallelogram

Anderton Court Shops (S.356), Beverly Hills, California, 1952). This urban shopping complex, distinguished by its spire, is frequently featured on the "Beverly Hills 90210" televison series. An image of it (the white alley) is found at the beginning of this page.

Randall Fawcett House (S.385), Los Banos, California, 1955.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: concrete block.
• Plan/type: A sort of "H" or "K" plan with wings at 60 degree angles
• Other: The Fawcett house is a farmhouse. A flower planter, more commonly found in Wright designs of 50 years before, is found on top of one of the walls.

Kundert Medical Clinic (S.396), San Luis Obispo, California, 1955.

• Construction materials: brick.
• Plan/type: L-plan, derived by Mr. Wright from a Usonian house plan. angles
• Other: Built just before the Meyer Medical Clinic in Ohio.

Marin County Civic Center (S.416-417) San Raphael, California (north of San Francisco), 1957.
Imagine Roman aqueducts connecting flying saucers...

• Photo by William Allin Storrer
• SC Solutions Page, by a company doing a seismic retrofit analysis.
• Archinform page for building.. In German. Beware of many Javascript errors at site.
• Civic Center Page [stormfront]
• Marin page [D.Sign]. Contains text and several images.
• Marin County Civic Center - Historic Landmark [Landmark 999]

Robert Walton House (S.421), Modesto, California, 1957.
This is a Usonian house built of concrete block.

George Ablin House (S.428), Bakersfield, California, 1958.
Basic information:

• Construction materials: concrete block, cedar, mahogony.
• Plan/type: L-plan

Pilgrim Congregational Church (S.431), Redding, California, 1958.
This church has some resemblance to Taliesin West with its "desert rubblestone" construction and roof supports.

Lake Tahoe Summer Colony, (never built), proposed for Emerald Bay, California

• Lake Tahoe Summer Colony Page at the Library of Congress. Features images and text.

A. M. Johnson Desert Compound (unbuilt), proposed for Grapevine Canyon, California, designed in 1924.

• Johnson Desert Compound Page at the Library of Congress. Contains text and images of the design.

Doheny Ranch (unbuilt), proposed for Beverly Hills, California, designed 1923

• Doheny Ranch Development Page at the Library of Congress. Contains text and images.

"The Little Dipper" (unbuilt), proposed for Olive Hill in Los Angeles, California, designed in 1923.

• Image at the Doheny Ranch Development Page at Library of Congress. Text is found on the Doheny page.

Huntington Hartford Play Resort and Sports Club (Never built), Los Angeles area, California

• Hartford page [D.Sign]. Contains text and color image.
• A rendering by Mr. Wright is found as the last of the 4 images in Brian Yoder's Art of Frank Lloyd Wright Page

• Wrightian Association, "a California nonprofit mutual benefit corporation, established in 1978 with the intent of joining together to create a community of organic homes in the Los Angeles area, and to educate the public and our members through tours, newsletters, and video documentaries about Frank Lloyd Wright's brand of design, organic architecture."
• The Gamble House, an Arts and Crafts style residence in Pasadena designed by Charles and Henry Greene.
• "Cliff Hickman Design & Construction: Homes Influenced by the Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright". An extensive site with many bright, clear photos and floor plans of these Wright-influenced buildings (including one once owned by pop star George Michael)
• John Lautner, Architect. John Lautner studied with Frank Lloyd Wright for six years.

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