Freeman House

Samuel and Harriet Freeman finished their house in 1925 and then stayed sixty years, which is the unusual part. Harriet ran salons in the living room for Edward Weston, Martha Graham, Galka Scheyer and Xavier Cugat, and the house sheltered left-leaning artists through the McCarthy years. Rudolph Schindler kept working on it until he died in 1953, cutting in an apartment and building furniture, and Gregory Ain and John Lautner came later. She left it to USC in 1986. The Northridge earthquake made it uninhabitable eight years after that.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• Santa Monica Pier — 11 mi
  Where the Mother Road runs out of continent, and where the End of the Trail sign gives the drive somewhere to finish.
• Mission San Gabriel Arcangel — 13 mi
  The fourth Alta California mission, built on Tongva land with Tongva labor, rebuilt after arson and now telling that story straight.

More markers nearby

• Campo de Cahuenga — 2.7 mi
• Ennis House — 2.7 mi
• Hancock Park-La Brea — 3.1 mi
• Black Cat Tavern — 3.5 mi