{"nrhp_refnum":"71000146","name":"Freeman, Samuel, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1962 Glencoe Way","address_restricted":false,"city":"Los Angeles","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":34.105904000000066,"lon":-118.33820752399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1971-10-14","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story hillside house at 1962 Glencoe Way in Los Angeles, California, built in 1922 from patterned concrete block. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is one of his four textile block houses in Southern California.","why_significant":"The house is one of four textile block houses Wright designed in the early 1920s for Southern California, which are unique in his work. They show his interest in common materials such as concrete block and draw on Mayan architecture for their sloping walls and ornament. Each house expresses the semi-arid climate with its own motif drawn from nature.","narrative":"Perched on a hillside at 1962 Glencoe Way in Los Angeles, this two-story house was built in 1922 of concrete block cast with patterned faces. The patterns show on both interior and exterior walls, and some blocks are pierced to admit light. A covered loggia between house and garage leads to the entrance, and a long hall lit through perforated blocks opens to a living room with clerestories, corner windows and French doors toward a wide view of the city. Frank Lloyd Wright designed it as one of four textile block houses for Southern California, a group considered unique in his work. He sought to lift concrete block from a humble material to a noble one, and the sloping walls and ornament draw on Mayan temples in Yucatan. The plan and structure remain as designed. Later changes include a 1932 apartment conversion and 1940 kitchen alterations by R.M. Schindler, a 1956 kitchen remodel by Robert Clark, and 1968 steel window frames by John Lautner.","period_of_significance":"20th Century (built 1922)","architect_builder":"Frank Lloyd Wright (original design); later alterations by R.M. Schindler, Robert Clark and John Lautner","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed in good condition and used as a private residence; plan and structure are as originally designed, with later remodelings.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.275446-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/71000146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000146/0fb80e9986-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/71000146/0fb80e9986-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Los Angeles","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Freeman_House,_Hollywood,_California.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles</a>, <a href=\"https://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:Samuel_Freeman_House,_Hollywood,_California.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123859125","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Freeman_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7411421"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/freeman-samuel-house-71000146/"}