Local News in Brief : Sale of Landmark Home Approved

The sale of the landmark home and architecture studio of the late Lloyd Wright to a financial planning firm has been approved by the West Hollywood City Council.

By a 4-1 vote, the council overturned a Planning Commission recommendation that would have prevented the son of Lloyd Wright and grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright from selling the property to financial planners Gail Gordon Kamer and Peggi Hager.

The Planning Commission recommended against the proposed sale in December after concluding that the building’s use by a financial planning firm would not be appropriate for the property.

After he built the textile block structure in 1928, Lloyd Wright--whose work included the original Hollywood Bowl Shell--lived upstairs and used the downstairs as a studio. Owned by Eric Lloyd Wright since his father’s death in 1978, the building at 858 N. Doheny Drive was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

“The building is in need of considerable restoration. We want to restore it and treat it as the landmark that it is,” Hager said.