In 1924, the elder Wright left LA, telling his son, “I'm fed up here. Over the next few years, the younger Wright worked with his father on many commissions, including Los Feliz's famous Hollyhock House. In the late 1910s, the young architect Lloyd Wright came to Los Angeles at the request of his father, the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright. This story is essentially a story of fathers and sons. Designed by Lloyd Wright, the Mayan Revival style house has been called “cultic,” “brooding,” “a gothic pile out of ‘Vathek,’” like “ Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and the “Jaws house.” In recent years it has gained a new, much darker notoriety-as the alleged murderous lair of the Black Dahlia’s killer. The enigmatic Sowden House is an anomaly on otherwise charming and SoCal-bright Franklin Avenue in Los Feliz. It has been a source of mystery and chatter since its construction in 1926. Once inside this remarkable house one found oneself in absolute privacy, invisible to the outside world. From any room one could step into a central courtyard full of exotic foliage and beautiful giant cactus plants reaching straight into the sky.
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