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Private Residence - Do Not Disturb

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Foy House

Ezra F. Kysor
This Italianate-style residence is one of the few remaining homes in Los Angeles from the 1870s. An early resident was Mary Foy, L.A.'s first female chief librarian and a leader in the women's suffrage movement
Photo by Adrian Scott Fine/L.A. Conservancy

Gainsburg House

Lloyd Wright
In the foothills below the Angeles National Forest lies a geometrical wonder.
Gehry House
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Gehry House

Frank Gehry
Starting with a Dutch Colonial Revival and building around it, Gehry would strip much of the interior while adding a new exterior of wood clad in plywood, glass, corrugated metal, and chain-link fencing.
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General Panel Residence

Konrad Wachsmann
Walter Gropius
Rudy Wolf
The only complete prefab building system created in the immediate postwar period featured an innovative framing system based on the "wedge connector," an X-shaped, cast-steel mechanism within wood-framed panels.
Glazier House
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Glazier House

Richard Dorman
One of Encino's loveliest Mid-Century Modern designs can be found in the Glazier House, perched above its curving hillside street.
Glen Lukens House
Photo by Barry Milofsky

Glen Lukens House

Raphael Soriano
The Lukens House is one of about a dozen Soriano homes that still exist, and it's a rare example of modernism in the West Adams neighborhood.
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Hale House

Craig Ellwood Associates
The house that launched architect Craig Ellwood's career and the first building he designed after establishing his own practice in 1949, described as one of three seminal postwar California houses.

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