{"nrhp_refnum":"71000143","name":"Barnsdall, Aline, Complex","other_names":["Barnsdall,Aline House, Olive Hill","Barnsdall Park"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4800 Hollywood Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.099969068000064,"lon":-118.29441909999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-05-06","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2007-03-29","areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Barnsdall Park, also known as Olive Hill, is an 11-acre municipally owned park at 4800 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. It holds Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House (designed and built 1916-1922) and Residence A (completed about 1919), built for Aline Barnsdall.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the park preserves the core of Wright's plan for a theatrical arts cultural center and now serves as the art center of Los Angeles. Hollyhock House and Residence A were Wright's first works in the Los Angeles area, built in what he called his Romanza Period. The mature trees and hilltop setting also give the small park a secluded, forested character.","narrative":"Barnsdall Park occupies an 11-acre hilltop in Los Angeles, once an olive grove that Aline Barnsdall commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to turn into a 36-acre cultural center for the theatrical arts. Only part of the scheme was built. Hollyhock House, designed and built between 1916 and 1922, crowns the mound, and Residence A, finished about 1919, sits nearby. These were Wright's first structures in the Los Angeles area. Residence A is more compact, with interior level changes that recall his earlier Unity Temple. Barnsdall offered the summit to the city, which accepted the 11 acres but declined to buy the remaining 25, and that land was later developed commercially. The park now holds an art gallery, a junior arts center and picnic grounds, and its mature trees screen the surrounding streets. The Wright layout shaped the variety of uses found there, and the city designated the park a historic-cultural monument in 1965.","period_of_significance":"20th Century","architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright (Wright office); Lloyd Wright supervised construction of Residence A","architectural_style":"Early Modern (Residence A, per the HABS sheet); Wright's \"Romanza Period\"","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent but altered; Hollyhock House was being restored to its original appearance. Residence A was used as an arts and crafts workshop and the park is open to the public.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.194942-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/71000143.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000143/57f13ac44f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000143/57f13ac44f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sfoskett","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollyhock_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Sfoskett</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hollyhock_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123858945","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollyhock_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2144588"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/barnsdall-aline-complex-71000143/"}