The Ennis House
The Ennis House is a house in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, California, USA, south of Griffith Park. Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house for Charles and Mabel Ennis in 1923, and it was completed in 1924. Following La Miniatura in Pasadena and the Storer and Freeman Houses in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills, the structure is the fourth and largest of Wright's textile block designs in the northern Los Angeles area, built mostly of interlocking pre-cast concrete blocks.
The design is inspired by ancient Maya temples, and it joins other Frank Lloyd Wright structures, such as the A. The Ennis House, like the D. German Warehouse in Wisconsin and the Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House in Hollywood, is sometimes referred to as an example of Mayan Revival architecture. The relief ornamentation on its 27,000 perforated and patterned decomposed granite stones, inspired by the symmetrical reliefs of Puuc architecture in Uxmal, is its most noticeable detail.
The Ennis House is a city, state, and national historic site. It was owned by billionaire Ronald Burkle from 2011 to 2019, during which time extensive repairs and improvements were carried out. The mansion was sold in 2019 for US$18 million to cannabis business leaders and philanthropists Robert Rosenheck and Cindy Capobianco.
Address: 2655 Glendower Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027, United States
Construction started: in 1924
Architectural styles: Textile block house, Mayan Revival architecture
