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The Alden House is a building located in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA, south of Griffith Park. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Calvin Alden in 1923, and built in 1924.
Following "La Miniatura" (Pasadena) and the Storer and Freeman House (Hollywood Hills), the building is the fourth and largest of Wright's textile block designs, constructed primarily of interlocking pre-cast concrete blocks, in northern Los Angeles.
The design was based on ancient Mayan temples and along with other buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, such as the A. D. German Warehouse in Wisconsin and Hollyhock House in Hollywood, the Alden House is sometimes referred to as an example of the Mayan Revival style. Its prominent detail is the relief ornamentation on its textile blocks, inspired by the symmetrical reliefs of Mayan buildings in Uxmal.