After an incredible publicity blitz and well over a year on the market, Frank Lloyd Wright’s world-renowned Ennis House — tucked into the foothills of Los Feliz [...] — has sold for $18 million to an as-yet-unidentified buyer. That number, while significantly below the $23 million ask, ranks it as the priciest Wright-designed home ever sold, easily eclipsing the previous high-water mark set by the Storer House in nearby Hollywood Hills, which was purchased in 2013 for $6.8 million [...] — Variety

More than one Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home has changed owners this week: after learning about the successful auction of his mid-century modern Norman Lykes House in Phoenix on Wednesday, Variety now reports that the spectacular Mayan Revival-style Ennis House in LA's Los Feliz hills just sold for a whopping $18 million — the highest price ever for a Wright-designed residence. The property came on the market last summer with an asking price of $23 million.



Photo: Mary E. Nichols, via Realtor.com

Commissioned by Charles and Mabel Ennis in 1923, the stately home was built in the following year as the fourth and largest of Wright's ornamental textile block designs — making it a popular backdrop for photo and film shoots, most notably in 1982's Blade Runner.

