Also known as the Ennis-Brown house, the Los Feliz dwelling was originally built in 1924 and named for its owners, Mabel and Charles Ennis. Over 27,000 blocks hand-cast into aluminum molds were used to construct the abode. Wright designed four LA-area structures in a similar textile block style.
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Also known as Millard House, this Southern California home has been featured in two sci-fi heavy hitters: a 1994 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and again in season two of the HBO prestige drama Westworld. The show reproduced a version of the home for scenes in season three.
“We were able to use Frank Lloyd Wright’s Millard House in Pasadena in the second season because the house was currently on the market during filming, and we had been looking for Wrightian houses at the time,” production designer Howard Cummings said in 2020. “We wanted to go back to the house [for season three], but we weren’t allowed back because it had just been sold. Shooting in the actual house was quite difficult anyway because it’s small and highly protected, so at some point, it became more reasonable to rebuild it as a set.”
The two-story build, set into the ridge of a Pasadena hill, was commissioned by rare book dealer Alice Millard. Construction on the four-bedroom, four-bathroom residence was completed in 1923. The textured concrete blocks that comprise its dynamic façade are also featured throughout the interiors. Despite being a century old, and harkening even further back into history with its ancient temple-like design, both sci-fi productions clearly considered Wright’s structure to be timeless.
