Freeman House

Samuel and Harriet Freeman finished their house in 1925 and Harriet stayed sixty years. She ran salons for Edward Weston, Martha Graham and Galka Scheyer, and the guest apartment housed tenants the blacklist had put out of work. Rudolph Schindler kept altering it until he died in 1953, cutting in an apartment and building furniture; Gregory Ain and John Lautner came later. Harriet deeded the house to USC in 1984. USC sold it in 2022, after the Northridge earthquake outran its money. One landmark number covers four Wright houses, and no plaque stands at this one.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Campo de Cahuenga — 2.7 mi
  The treaty that ended the fighting in California was signed on this ground, and the building it was signed in is now under the boulevard.
• Chavez Ravine — 6.1 mi
  Three Mexican American neighborhoods cleared for public housing that was never built, then traded to a ballclub.
• Los Encinos State Historic Park — 9.9 mi
  A spring that never stopped running, the village it fed for thousands of years, and the rancho that took the ground away.
• Colorado Street Bridge — 10 mi
  Beaux-Arts concrete arches curving 150 feet above the Arroyo Seco, opened in 1913 and later a link in Route 66.

More markers nearby

• Cecil B. DeMille Studio Barn — 0.3 mi
• Campo de Cahuenga — 2.7 mi
• Ennis House — 2.7 mi
• Hancock Park-La Brea — 3.1 mi