2024-12-04T04:02:29-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/10620307/irving-gill-and-dodge-house-via-esther-mccoy Orhan Ayyüce 2011-06-20T19:56:00-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/0o/0odvjc5rp0q8w9v4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The bulldozers wait for the trees and gardens, which, for a half century, matured. For the House, which, time has not touched. We prize the distant past,but if the immediate past is ripped away, there will be no distant past for the future. The continuity will be broken. Our heritage diminished. There is a hole in the fabric of History. - Ester McCoy</p></em><br /><br /><p> Dodge House 1916 (1965)<br><a href="http://youtu.be/05Jap-YRTPM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This film</a>, produced by architectural historian <a href="http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/esther-mccoy-papers-5502/more" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Esther McCoy</a>, documents the Walter Luther Dodge house in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, and the life of its architect, Irving John Gill. The film was made to advocate for its preservation during a 7-year battle to save it from the wrecking ball. The campaign failed, and the house was destroyed in 1970. This film, created to help save the house, now serves as the building's best surviving visual record. For more information on Dodge House and Esther McCoy, see her papers at the Archives of American Art.</p> <p> <em>Via, with special thanks to my friend<a href="http://socalarchhistory.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> John Crosse,</a> Historian.&nbsp;</em></p> <p> Film:&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://youtu.be/05Jap-YRTPM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/05Jap-YRTPM</a></strong></p>