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A Woman to Know: Aline Barnsdall

A Woman to Know: Aline Barnsdall

She was as domestic as a shooting star. — Frank Lloyd Wright

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She was as domestic as a shooting star. — Frank Lloyd Wright

(image via The Los Angeles Public Library)

She’s known now for the house: the Hollyhock House, a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Californian temple/campus/estate that UNESCO named a new World Heritage site just last year.

But Aline never grew up in Los Angeles; she was raised to be a Midwestern daug…

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