Hollywood Heights Hidden Stairs

The Samuel Freeman House features walls built from twelve hundred custom textile concrete blocks, each patterned with a geometric design that catches the light differently throughout the day. When Samuel and Harriet Freeman hired Frank…

The Paramount Stairway is a steep concrete ladder of nearly two hundred steps climbing directly up the hillside toward the Hollywood Heights neighborhood. Built in nineteen twenty-three, it offered residents of the growing hillside enclave…

Alta Loma Terrace is a hillside enclave of nineteen houses reachable only by a steep, funicular railway or a long flight of concrete stairs. The neighborhood exists because the narrow, vertical terrain defied the standard grid of Los…

The white stucco house on this hillside features a small, detached garage that sits almost flush with the narrow street. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love rented this residence in nineteen ninety-two. During those months, the garage served as…

The Otto Bollman House clings to the steep hillside with deep, overhanging eaves and patterned concrete blocks that seem to grow directly out of the slope. Lloyd Wright designed this home in nineteen twenty-two, using the same textile…

Broadview Terrace rises in three distinct tiers of white stucco against the hillside, each level crowned by a flat roof and a pergola. Arthur and Nina Zwebell designed this apartment complex in nineteen twenty-three to mimic a…

The High Tower sits as a narrow, concrete pillar rising above the homes of Hollywood Heights. It serves as an entrance to the hillside neighborhood, housing an elevator that carries residents up the steep cliffside to their houses. Built…

The Yeager Place in Hollywood Heights sits as a quiet, residential anomaly tucked against the steep hillside. Built in nineteen twenty-four, the structure anchors a neighborhood known for its dramatic topography and early twentieth-century…