John Sowden House
John Sowden House, also known as the "Jaws House" or the "Franklin House", is a residence built in 1926 in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California by Lloyd Wright.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Historic site
- Description: historic house in California, United States
- Address: 5121 Franklin Avenue, Los Angeles, 90027
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include American Film Institute and Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church.
American Film Institute
Research institute
The American Film Institute is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States. AFI is supported by private funding and public membership fees. American Film Institute is situated 2,800 feet west of John Sowden House.
Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church
Church
Saint Garabed Armenian Apostolic Church is situated 2,200 feet southeast of John Sowden House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thai Town and Little Armenia.
Thai Town
Neighborhood
Photo: Simon J. Hernandez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thai Town is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. In 2008, it was one of the five Asian Pacific Islander neighborhoods in the city—along with Chinatown, Little Tokyo, Historic Filipinotown, and Koreatown—that received federal recognition as a Preserve America neighborhood.
Little Armenia
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Little Armenia is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California. It is named after the Armenians who escaped genocide and made their way to Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century.
Los Feliz
Neighborhood
Photo: We hope, Public domain.
Los Feliz is a hillside neighborhood in the greater Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California, abutting Hollywood and encompassing part of the Santa Monica Mountains.
John Sowden House
- Categories: single-family detached home, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.1056° or 34° 6′ 20″ northLongitude
-118.30125° or 118° 18′ 5″ westOpen location code
85634M4X+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 853923710OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesWikidata ID
Q6258545
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to French—“John Sowden House” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “John Sowden House”
- Chinese: “約翰·索登之家”
- Czech: “Franklin House”
- Czech: “Jaws House”
- Czech: “John Sowden House”
- Czech: “Sowdenův dům”
- French: “maison John Sowden”
- French: “Maison John Sowden”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “John Sowden House”. Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.