Frank Lloyd Wright House Hits Market for $23 Million

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Frank Lloyd Wright House Hits Market for $23 Million

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The house sits on only 0.83 acres and has only three bedrooms, three full baths and one half-bath. The price of this small house that overlooks Los Angeles is $23 million, perhaps because it was designed by the most famous architect in America history: Frank Lloyd Wright.

The house at 2607 Glendower Avenue sits across from the huge Griffith Park and the Griffith Observatory. That means no homes will be built behind it. The view south is of downtown Los Angeles and to the west Hollywood Hills. It is known as the Ennis House. Last week, it was the most viewed house on Realtor.com

The house was built in 1924. Wright was born in 1897 and died in 1959.

The seller’s overview:

One of the most iconic and important residential properties in America. Occupying a majestic Los Feliz hilltop with staggering views from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, this remarkable property has undergone years of thoughtful restoration at a cost of nearly $17 million. Brilliantly proportioned rooms flow effortlessly from one to another. 4 bedrooms (including guest apartment over garage), 3-~ baths, screening/billiard room, guest house and pool. It is both powerful and remarkably livable. There are only a handful of residential properties in the world as awe-inspiring as The Ennis House. Offered furnished.

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The house is expensive compared to those around it. The median home sales price in the Los Feliz neighborhood is $1,612,500.

The cost of ownership? With a down payment of 20%, or $4.6 million, on a 20-year fixed mortgage at a 4.696% interest rate, the monthly payment would be $125,093. Of that, $23,958 is property tax.

At that price, there can only be a handful of buyers who want to live in a small house with a spectacular view.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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