What Is Going on With Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House?
- Sep 22, 2025
- 6 min read
Frank Lloyd Wright’s landmark Freeman House is the smallest of his four textile-block homes in Los Angeles, yet it is the greatest preservation failure. How did this happen?
Samuel and Harriet Freeman commissioned the architect in 1924 after visiting her sister Leah Lovell, a teacher at Hollyhock, the home FLW built for Aline Barnsdall on Hollywood Boulevard. But what was supposed to be a three-month project worth $10,000 ballooned to $25,000 over thirteen months.
”Sam and I would come up at the end of the day to see what had been accomplished and the workmen would just laugh,” Harriet recalled to the Los Angeles Times in 1984.
