BACKSTORY: Hollywood Heights is a neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, surrounded by the Hollywood Bowl on the north, Highland Avenue on the east, Outpost Estates on the west, and Franklin Avenue on the south. The Samuel Freeman House was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, supervised by son Lloyd Wright, and furnished and expanded by Rudolph Schindler. Built in 1923, it is one of four textile block houses built by Wright in Los Angeles between 1922 and 1924, and it has the world's first glass-to-glass corner windows. The High Tower is a five-story structure housing a private elevator built in 1920 in the style of a Bolognese campanile, providing access to a Streamline Moderne fourplex known as High Tower Court, built between 1935 and 1936. Located in the Hollywood Heights neighborhood, Carl Kay was the architect for the Tower and the fourplex. The High Tower has been used in numerous movies, including “The Long Goodbye,” “Dead Again,” and an episode of “Naked City” (1961). Residents of the homes around the tower have included David Copperfield, Michael Connelly, Tim Burton, and Kurt Cobain. This area also includes Yamashiro Restaurant, The Hollywood United Methodist Church, and The Magic Castle.
