Samuel Freeman House
The Samuel Freeman House (also known as the Samuel and Harriet Freeman House) is a Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California built in 1923. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The house is also listed as California Historical Landmark #1011 and as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #247. Significance
As an example of Wright's Mayan Revival or early Modernist architecture, the structure is noteworthy as one of the four textile block houses built by Wright in the Los Angeles area, the others being Storer House, Ennis House, and Millard House. It has the world's first glass-to-glass corner windows. The construction manager on site was Wright's son, Lloyd Wright. The house was known as an avant-garde salon, and the list of individuals who spent significant periods of time there or lived in the house's two Rudolph Schindler-designed apartments includes John Bovingdon, Beniamino Bufano, Xavier Cugat, Rudi Gernreich, Martha Graham, Philip Johnson, Peter Krasnow, Bella Lewitzky, Jean Negulesco, Richard Neutra, Claude Rains, Herman Sachs, Galka Scheyer, Edward Weston, Olga Zacsek, and Fritz Zwicky. It also served as an intellectual sanctuary for individuals blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Ownership

The original owners lived in the house until Harriet Freeman's death in 1986, when she bequeathed it to the USC School of Architecture. The house suffered severe damage during the 1994 Northridge earthquake. In 2005, the school completed a stabilization project using a $901,000 FEMA grant and $1.5 million in school funds. In 2012, a pair of cast iron & brass floor lamps designed by Wright as well as a cushioned folding chair and a tea cart designed by Schindler were discovered stolen from a storage facility where they were placed after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake. The items were discovered missing in 2012 from a locked room in the storage facility managed by USC's School of Architecture. The theft remained unreported to the LAPD until 2019. In 2022, USC sold the house to a real estate developer, Richard Weintraub, under the condition that it be preserved. Studies
A 3,200-page, seven-volume set of books published in 2014 documented a five-year program of studying the history and condition of the house. See also
List of Frank Lloyd Wright works
 Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in Hollywood
 List of Registered Historic Places in Los Angeles
 Hollywood Heights, Los Angeles

References

Further reading
Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006,  (S.216)
Chusid, Jeffrey M. 2011. Saving Wright, the Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity. New York: W.W. Norton & Co (ISBN 978-0393733020). External links

Freeman House, USC
Freeman House photos

Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Modernist architecture in California
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles
University of Southern California buildings and structures
Houses completed in 1923
Hollywood Hills
History of Los Angeles County, California
1923 establishments in California