Curbed LA (via Lotta Living.com) recently posted on the rumor that the first Frank Lloyd Wright designed textile block house, The Alice Millard House (aka La Miniatura) is possibly for sale...for $7.5 million! As mentioned on Curbed LA's site:
The house recently underwent an expensive restoration after it was purchased in 2000 for the bargain basement price of $1.3 million. According to estimates at the time, restoration was expected to cost at least as much, because "glass was incorporated internally into the concrete blocks by hand. This method of construction caused the imploding/exploding difficulties found in Wright’s other concrete-block houses in Los Angeles."
Well, Architectural Digest has an online listing if you're interested...that is if you have the $7.5 million. Check out the Curbed LA post and take a look at some of the great photos of this architectural wonder.
Image courtesy of Architectural Digest
La Miniatura has been one of my favorite buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. As an apprentice to the master, I was fortunate to have visited the house several times. The landscape is most beautiful, but someone should get back to the owner that the vines growing on the block should be removed at once. They will destroy the individual blocks, particularly the blocks with glass interposed.
Posted by: Earl Nisbet | Aug 22, 2008 at 01:12 PM