Landmark houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard House (La Miniatura)
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Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard House (La Miniatura)( Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times )
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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