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Am finally back from our whirlwind 1 week trip to San Diego, LA and San Francisco with my hubby!  This time our trip to LA was a little different from the last ones.  We decided to try to find “different” things to see instead of the usual touristy stops.  One of the things that we tried to find was the Stahl House.  The Stahl House was one of the many houses built as a part of a program in 1959 known as the “Case Study Houses” program.  These houses built were experiments in American residential architecture and sponsored by the Arts & Architecture magazine.  Major architects of that time were called upon to create modern inexpensive housing to address the housing boom that was created by the end of the war.

The Stahl House, designed by Pierre Koenig for the Stahl family is one of the most famous of these Case Study Homes.  It has been featured in numerous films and can even be bought on GTA San Andreas (Grand Theft Auto) as a safe house!  Hilarious! 

Since the house tours were sold out, we decided to go on a trek to find the house one night.  We made it close to the house but were disappointed to find that it is in a gated area of the street.  We did manage to see it (so we think!) from a neighboring hill in the Hollywood Hills area.  Here’s a blurry picture that we took.  We think it is the higher of the two houses but we are not positive!

It remains to this day one of my favorite houses and it’s a shame we weren’t able to see it in person!  Oh well….gives me a reason to go to LA again some day!  Here are some pictures so you can see for yourself!

Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahl_House

Image from http://www.stahlhouse.com