Architect John Lautner designed the modern house for Jules Salkin in 1948, expressing the Usonian design aesthetic pioneered by Lautner's mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Salkin had met Lautner at the Taliesen Fellowship in Wisconsin during the summers of 1938 and 1939, where Lautner was serving an apprenticeship while Salkin played violin in the Taliesin String Quartet and developed an appreciation for modernist architect.

Salkin would later be the moving force in the development of a cooperative housing project for musicians in Crestwood Hills in Brentwood, California. The plan, which went under the name, Mutual Housing Association, called for the mass production of low density, moderately-priced modern architectural homes on cooperatively-owned land, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's open plan Usonian architecture. The Salkin House is thought to have been a prototype for the larger project.

The house was in a run-down state when it appeared on the market in May 2014 priced at $999.000 with an adjacent vacant lot being sold separately for $250,000. Current owners engaged architect Barbara Bestor to bring the house back to life. removing unwanted alterations and restored the house to its original condition based upon the original Lautner plans held at the Getty Research Institute. The house was part of the 2016 MAK Center for Art & Architecture Home Tour held on October 3, 2016. Unfortunately photos of the interior were prohibited. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (NO. 1111) in 2016.

The Jules Salkin House is located at 1430 Avon Terrace in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

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Architect John Lautner designed the modern house for Jules Salkin in 1948, expressing the Usonian design aesthetic pioneered by Lautner's mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Salkin had met Lautner at the Taliesen Fellowship in Wisconsin during the summers of 1938 and 1939, where Lautner was serving an apprenticeship while Salkin played violin in the Taliesin String Quartet and developed an appreciation for modernist architect.

Salkin would later be the moving force in the development of a cooperative housing project for musicians in Crestwood Hills in Brentwood, California. The plan, which went under the name, Mutual Housing Association, called for the mass production of low density, moderately-priced modern architectural homes on cooperatively-owned land, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's open plan Usonian architecture. The Salkin House is thought to have been a prototype for the larger project.

The house was in a run-down state when it appeared on the market in May 2014 priced at $999.000 with an adjacent vacant lot being sold separately for $250,000. Current owners engaged architect Barbara Bestor to bring the house back to life. removing unwanted alterations and restored the house to its original condition based upon the original Lautner plans held at the Getty Research Institute. The house was part of the 2016 MAK Center for Art & Architecture Home Tour held on October 3, 2016. Unfortunately photos of the interior were prohibited. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (NO. 1111) in 2016.

The Jules Salkin House is located at 1430 Avon Terrace in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

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Architect John Lautner designed the modern house for Jules Salkin in 1948, expressing the Usonian design aesthetic pioneered by Lautner's mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Salkin had met Lautner at the Taliesen Fellowship in Wisconsin during the summers of 1938 and 1939, where Lautner was serving an apprenticeship while Salkin played violin in the Taliesin String Quartet and developed an appreciation for modernist architect.

Salkin would later be the moving force in the development of a cooperative housing project for musicians in Crestwood Hills in Brentwood, California. The plan, which went under the name, Mutual Housing Association, called for the mass production of low density, moderately-priced modern architectural homes on cooperatively-owned land, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's open plan Usonian architecture. The Salkin House is thought to have been a prototype for the larger project.

The house was in a run-down state when it appeared on the market in May 2014 priced at $999.000 with an adjacent vacant lot being sold separately for $250,000. Current owners engaged architect Barbara Bestor to bring the house back to life. removing unwanted alterations and restored the house to its original condition based upon the original Lautner plans held at the Getty Research Institute. The house was part of the 2016 MAK Center for Art & Architecture Home Tour held on October 3, 2016. Unfortunately photos of the interior were prohibited. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (NO. 1111) in 2016.

The Jules Salkin House is located at 1430 Avon Terrace in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

© All Rights Reserved

Architect John Lautner designed the modern house for Jules Salkin in 1948, expressing the Usonian design aesthetic pioneered by Lautner's mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Salkin had met Lautner at the Taliesen Fellowship in Wisconsin during the summers of 1938 and 1939, where Lautner was serving an apprenticeship while Salkin played violin in the Taliesin String Quartet and developed an appreciation for modernist architect.

Salkin would later be the moving force in the development of a cooperative housing project for musicians in Crestwood Hills in Brentwood, California. The plan, which went under the name, Mutual Housing Association, called for the mass production of low density, moderately-priced modern architectural homes on cooperatively-owned land, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's open plan Usonian architecture. The Salkin House is thought to have been a prototype for the larger project.

The house was in a run-down state when it appeared on the market in May 2014 priced at $999.000 with an adjacent vacant lot being sold separately for $250,000. Current owners engaged architect Barbara Bestor to bring the house back to life. removing unwanted alterations and restored the house to its original condition based upon the original Lautner plans held at the Getty Research Institute. The house was part of the 2016 MAK Center for Art & Architecture Home Tour held on October 3, 2016. Unfortunately photos of the interior were prohibited. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (NO. 1111) in 2016.

The Jules Salkin House is located at 1430 Avon Terrace in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

© All Rights Reserved

Architect John Lautner designed the modern house for Jules Salkin in 1948, expressing the Usonian design aesthetic pioneered by Lautner's mentor, Frank Lloyd Wright. Salkin had met Lautner at the Taliesen Fellowship in Wisconsin during the summers of 1938 and 1939, where Lautner was serving an apprenticeship while Salkin played violin in the Taliesin String Quartet and developed an appreciation for modernist architect.

Salkin would later be the moving force in the development of a cooperative housing project for musicians in Crestwood Hills in Brentwood, California. The plan, which went under the name, Mutual Housing Association, called for the mass production of low density, moderately-priced modern architectural homes on cooperatively-owned land, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's open plan Usonian architecture. The Salkin House is thought to have been a prototype for the larger project.

The house was in a run-down state when it appeared on the market in May 2014 priced at $999.000 with an adjacent vacant lot being sold separately for $250,000. Current owners engaged architect Barbara Bestor to bring the house back to life. removing unwanted alterations and restored the house to its original condition based upon the original Lautner plans held at the Getty Research Institute. The house was part of the 2016 MAK Center for Art & Architecture Home Tour held on October 3, 2016. Unfortunately photos of the interior were prohibited. Designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument (NO. 1111) in 2016.

The Jules Salkin House is located at 1430 Avon Terrace in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved.

© All Rights Reserved