Hollyhock House

This guide to Hollyhock House traces how oil heiress Aline Barnsdall hired Frank Lloyd Wright in 1919 to design an arts complex on Olive Hill, only for the architect to leave the job largely to his son and a young associate while he worked abroad. It follows the unusual concrete house that rose in his near-absence, trimmed with Barnsdall's favorite flower, and the rising costs and clashing egos that strained the partnership. Look up at the roofline out front, where the hollyhock motifs are still carved into the finials.