The George Sturges House is a single-family

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, designed by architect

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and built for George D. Sturges in the Brentwood Heights neighborhood of Brentwood,

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. Designed and built in 1939, the one-story residence is fairly small compared to 21st century standards, 1,200 square feet (110 m²), but features a 21-foot panoramic deck.Gordon Smith
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''The San Diego Union-Tribune'', July 17, 2005. The home is made out of

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and

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. Wright hired

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fellow

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to oversee its construction. The Sturges House is the only structure in

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built in the modern style Wright called

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n design. Other Wright homes in the area were built in the 1920s with interlocking, pre-cast concrete blocks, which he named "textile block" style, and seen in such homes as the

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. The house was owned by actor

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. After his death in 2015 the house was to be put up for auction, with the proceeds to benefit the nonprofit Bridges/Larson Foundation. In February 2016 Los Angeles Modern Auctions announced that no qualified bidder had registered, and it was withdrawn. The George Sturges House can be viewed easily from the street (449 N. Skyewiay Road). It was designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #577 on May 25, 1993.Historic-Cultural Monument Report: Brentwood – Pacific Palisades
Department of City Planning, City of Los Angeles.

References

*Storrer, William Allin. ''The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion''. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, (S.272)

External links

Sturges House Foundation website
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