Landmark houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard House (La Miniatura)
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard House (La Miniatura)
By Sean Mitchell
Frank Lloyd Wright's alluring Alice Millard house, also known as La Miniatura, rises like a Mayan temple from a tree-canopied hillside on Rosemont Avenue in Pasadena. The 1923 Millard house may be less known to the general public than Wright's other three "textile-block" homes in the region -- Ennis, Freeman and Storer -- but some architectural historians regard Millard as the finest. So does Eric Lloyd Wright, the architect's grandson and a longtime Southern California architect who explained the leading reason for critics' enthusiasm: "The way he set the house in that glen," he said. Frank Lloyd Wright called for the house to rise above a ravine between two eucalyptus trees, which are still there, forming a cathedral more than 100 feet high over a lily pond. |
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gaucho420 at 4:27 PM July 06, 2011
The pictures of this house always blow me away. The style and the materials used are truly unique, and the entire look and feel is truly unmatched. Great photo spread!
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Beautiful place, but it doesn't look homely; except the kitchean. The picture of the table and chairs under the olive tree is beautiful.