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After over a year on the market for $23 million, the Ennis House in Los Angeles has sold for a record-breaking price. The $18 million sale is the highest ever for a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home, according to Variety. 

The 1924 home, perched on a Los Feliz hilltop, was originally built for retailers Charles and Mabel Ennis. The eye-popping design, the last and largest of Wright’s textile block houses, is constructed from 27,000 concrete blocks. Each block was handmade using decomposed granite extracted from the site and marked with patterns inspired by ancient Mayan designs.

After Charles died, Mabel sold the home in 1936, and the property changed hands several times over the decades.

Its arresting look made it a star in Hollywood, where it made over 80 screen appearances, in films such as “Mulholland Drive,” “Beverly Hills Cop,” and “Blade Runner,” and TV shows such as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

The structure had sustained damage after the 1994 Northridge earthquake and torrential rains in 2005.

The home’s sorry state led the National Trust for Historic Preservation to add it to its 2005 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Places, according to the Los Angeles Conservancy. Work to stabilize the house began in 2006, earning it a Conservancy Preservation Award in 2008.

Enter a savior: billionaire Ron Burkle, who purchased the property for $4.5 million in 2011. He then took on a “thoughtful restoration” at a cost of nearly $17 million, according to the listing.

He placed it on the market in July of last year for $23 million. With its refreshed look, the home grabbed the attention of the internet, and topped our most popular homes list in August.

The 6,000-square-foot home features four bedrooms, three-plus baths, and a guest apartment over the garage. The patterned blocks continue inside, and walls of glass frame the city views. A marble hallway, soaring ceilings, and textile block columns add to the grand space.

Available furnished, the space includes a formal living room with a balcony and tiled fireplace, a massive dining room with city views through a corner picture window, along with another fireplace, a vintage kitchen, a billiard and screening room, a library, and a large terrace with a pool. 

Branden and Rayni Williams of Hilton & Hyland and Ron De Salvo of Coldwell Banker shared the listing. Drew Fenton of Hilton & Hyland represented the buyer.

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