Moving the Richard Neutra Maxwell House
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Neutra Maxwell house
The 1941 Maxwell house by Richard Neutra, one of Southern Californiaยs most celebrated residential architects, is being moved in pieces from Brentwood to a vacant lot in Angelino Heights, the neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles best known for its restored Victorians. Photographer Brian Thomas Jones was on the scene as the first part of the 1,700-square-foot wooden structure made the journey down Sunset Boulevard to its new home.
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pandros042 at 12:15 PM April 09, 2011
What's amazing is how so many people could all simultaneously go crazy. This reactionary dwelling isn't Abu Simbel. If it's so historically important why wasn't it moved to the Smithsonian? This is all about greed and making money. Neutra being what he was would probably find it all agreeable. Nothing ever really changes in California. Except for its attribution the house is pretty insignificant.
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Though I think that it has some significance, who cares one way or another? Someone saw fit to pay to move it. It was a nice house and probably can be moved for less than the cost of building new. The article doesn't give many details - it sounds kind of paranoid to say that this is about "making money".