Harpel house 2 ? (Anchorage, Alaska)

USA / Alaska / Point MacKenzie / Anchorage, Alaska
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Designed by John Lautner for Willis Harpel when he relocated to Alaska.

from :
Los Angeles Department of City Planning
RECOMMENDATION REPORT
CASE NO.: CHC-2007-2072HCM
cityplanning.lacity.org/staffrpt/chc/10-18-07/chc-2007-... :

"Willis "Bill" R. Harpel was a popular announcer in the Los Angeles radio market
for several decades. He commissioned John Lautner to design for him Harpel House #1.
Harpel took great pride in pouring all of the concrete work on the site of his future home and would work a full shift in radio and then return home to become a construction
worker/subcontractor along side builder John de la Vaux. He so enjoyed the process that
when he made a career move to Anchorage, Alaska he again commissioned Lautner to
design a home for him there and again hired la Vaux as contractor. The lakeshore home
on Lake Otis included an interior tropical garden and each of the uprights in the circular living room was a totem pole.

Harpel, an avid snow mobiler lost his life in a snow mobile accident in 1968 in
Alaska."
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Coordinates:   61°11'31"N   149°50'45"W

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