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The Andrew Neff House.
Wallace Neff, Architect, 1946
Live Boldly! The Andrew Neff House, 1946, is the only remaining example in the United States of architect Wallace Neff's futurist Airform constructed residences. While the structure was wildly controversial in conservative Pasadena when it was built, it has stood the test of time, and continues to provide a warm, comfortable and contemporary living environment.
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THE WOLFORD HOUSE.
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #614.
James De Long, AIA and Taliesin Fellow, 1947-1951
The Wolford House is as pure an expression of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Usonian' style of architecture as one could hope to find in Southern California. De Long apprenticed with Wright at Taliesin where he absorbed the principles that would define his early work in Los Angeles.
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Case Study House #16
Craig Ellwood, Architect, 1953
In 1945, Arts & Architecture Magazine launched the now internationally celebrated Case Study House Program introducing the broad public to new concepts for living well, and efficiently. This house is design #16 in the program. It is the only Case Study House by Craig Ellwood that still stands in its original condition.
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Finis E. Yoakum House
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 287
Finis E. Yoakum House, 1915. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 287. Built for the founder of what came to be known as the Pisgah Home Historic District in Highland Park (on the National Register of Historic Places), Finis E. Yoakum provided faith healing and social services to the needy around 1900. In the 107 years since its completion, the Yoakum House is one of the largest landmarks in the neighborhood and miraculously has retained much of its original historic fabric
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The DJ Studio/Loft, 2010.
With a program not unlike what has been acknowledged as the world's first architectural folly: Freston Tower built in 1579 overlooking the river Orwell in Suffolk England, this building overlooks the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of Santa Monica Canyon.