What is the asking price of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Ennis House in Los Angeles?
Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed, long-endangered Ennis House, which served as a location for films such as “Blade Runner,” is putting out a “for sale” sign with a $15 million asking price, Christie’s said on Friday. The 6,000-square-foot Los Angeles estate is being sold by the Ennis House Foundation, which recently completed the initial phase of a stabilization and restoration project after years of decay and damage from earthquakes and torrential rains. In March 2005, it was placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s most-endangered list. “Our goal has always been to be a good steward of the house,” said the foundation’s president, James DeMeo. “We’ve made a lot of progress, but at this point a private owner with the right vision and sufficient resources can better preserve the house than we can as a small nonprofit,” he said, explaining the decision to place the historic home on the market. Perched atop a hill in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles just south of Griffith Park,
The Mayan-inspired Ennis House, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Los Angeles that has suffered the effects of weather and earthquakes, is going on the market. The Ennis Foundation, a private trust that owns the house, is asking $15 million US from a buyer who is willing to invest in preserving the property. The foundation recently completed a stabilization and restoration project on the house that went only partway toward rectifying years of neglect and effects of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The striking house, built in 1924 for Charles and Mabel Ennis, the owners of a men’s clothing store, is set on a hilltop in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. It has been used as a backdrop for films such as Blade Runner and Mulholland Drive, and TV series Twin Peaks and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Wright was inspired by the ruins of Uxmal, Mexico, in his design for the 6,000 sq. ft. property. It is built of what was called “textile blocks,” 40 x 40 cm blocks with 24 design variations, held
