Harwell Hamilton Harris - Blair House, 1939 | OPEN HOUSE

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:53 am

For those of you in the LA area. Open house tomorrow, April 2nd, 2-5:

https://www.redfin.com/CA/Los-Angeles/3 ... me/5310659

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:11 am

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:10 am

Now I miss LA. This is one of his finest. Enjoy...!

Roderick Grant · Post by **Roderick Grant** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:37 am

The only minus is that it has a grand view of the Hollywood Freeway at Universal City.

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:31 pm

I've always liked the way Harris uses single lite doors mixed with multi lite. It breaks up, relaxes and syncopates the rhythm of the horizontal lines.

clydethecat · Post by **clydethecat** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:13 pm

Is that a small funicular railway?

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sat Apr 01, 2017 10:24 pm

Apparently so.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3763+ ... 47!6m1!1e1

clydethecat · Post by **clydethecat** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:14 pm

SDR wrote:Apparently so.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/3763+ ... 47!6m1!1e1

If anyone goes to the open house, I'd love to find out if the funicular is for personnel or just for cargo?

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:30 pm

Hmm. Isn't there one at Lautner's Chemoshpere house-on-a-stilt ? Same question; I believe that one carries people. Or not ?

SDR

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 1:42 pm

Yes, Chemosphere had one for passengers, too. There is a duplex house (the Dodge house) near the HH Harris Blair house which was originally a craftsman hunting cabin, later remodeled by Schindler and Gregory Ain, each of them responsible for one of the two units. It also had a small funicular, used only for groceries and supplies. Ain lived in his unit.

http://takesunset.com/2010/07/schindler ... ood-hills/

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 2:56 pm

Thanks. I'm not clear on which unit is shown, Ain's or Schindler's . . .

SDR

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 4:12 pm

Both are shown in the photographs. The room with the thick carpeting, wood ceilings and room divider is Schindler. The room with the white ceiling, Ain's. When I saw the place, the Schindler half was sloping severely; the original foundation holding it up must have settled over time. Ain got the better half. His showed few signs of problems.

SDR · Post by **SDR** » Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:22 pm

Aha. So "This new listing . . ." has a double meaning.

S

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 9:34 am

I went to the open house. The house has been sensitively updated with a new kitchen and flooring. It is lovely. It's a small house with each floor rising up to follow the hillside. The studio is on the top floor and it's a particulary special aerie with an entire sliding wall of windows on one side opening to a patio and a row of clerestories on the other. It's quite wooded so I didn't notice or hear the freeway.

It's a steep and long climb up to the house so yes, the funicular does carry people. It's been covered in wood siding similar to the house, a nice touch.

clydethecat · Post by **clydethecat** » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:27 pm

Craig wrote:I went to the open house. The house has been sensitively updated with a new kitchen and flooring. It is lovely. It's a small house with each floor rising up to follow the hillside. The studio is on the top floor and it's a particulary special aerie with an entire sliding wall of windows on one side opening to a patio and a row of clerestories on the other. It's quite wooded so I didn't notice or hear the freeway.

It's a steep and long climb up to the house so yes, the funicular does carry people. It's been covered in wood siding similar to the house, a nice touch.

Thanks for the report.