One Los Angeles mansion was home to Buffy the Slayer and Blade Runner vampire

The lovely Los Angeles neighborhood hills, Los Feliz, may not seem like the kind of place you would find an icon of horror cinema and sci-fi, but that’s exactly what sits in 2607 glendower Avenue.

There’s enough Hollywood history Los Feliz, which is also home to the famous film high school in America. But surely Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis House is one of the most striking sites in the neighborhood, which borders Griffith Park and is ignored by LA Tourism Space Where the Terminator became Sci-Fi icon. Ennis House is one of Wright’s most famous architectural achievements and is, according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundationhas been used throughout the history of the cinema as a venue for more than 80 productions.

As such, even if you’ve never even heard of an Ennis House, you’ve probably seen it before. In fact, if you happen to be a “Blade Runner” or “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” fan, you are very familiar with the grandiose home.

Ennis House was the last of four “textile block” houses created by Frank Lloyd Wright, which created the unique aesthetic using 27,000 blocks made of gravel, granite and sand. These blocks were created in aluminum molds that included a unique joint pattern, giving each block a clear texture, and by extension, the house as a whole. The result is a structure that feels at the same time ancient and future, its Maya revival architecture at the top of Los Feliz’s hills is almost a supernatural tone.

Completed in 1924, the house was originally designed for retailer Charles Ennis, with Wright writing in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Ennis, “You see, the end result is going to stand on that hill one hundred years or more. Long after we go, it will be highlighted to the Ennis House, and the pillars will be made from everywhere.” Certainly, the stunning home attracted attention, most of it from Hollywood Studios, which has turned the structure into a star in itself.

The first time Ennis had played a big part in a film in the horror of William Castle in 1959 “The House on Haunted Hill,” (he received Re -make the 90s that stand as one of the worst horror movies of the decade) Where Vincent Price’s millionaire, Frederick Loren, brings five guests to his home for the night and offers them a cash prize if they survive. External shots from Ennis House were used for the titular mansion, but the interior was mostly shot on the sound sounds. Similarly, in the early 80s, Ridley Scott used the outside of Wright’s house for his pioneering sci-fi tour “Blade Runner.” In the film, The Ennis House stands in for the Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) apartment, but his influence on the film went beyond a fast external shot.

In “Blade Runner,” Facade and Motor Court Ennis House can be seen as Rick Deckard drives into their apartment building. But production designers for the film wanted to extend the architectural style of the home to their set designs, creating foam molds from the blocks used on an ennis house and fake new fake blocks used then to decorate Deckard’s flat interior sets.

This method was echoed years later when Ennis House was used as a Filming location for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” The home stood in for the exterior of Spike (James Marsters) and his wife’s (Juliet Landau) mansion. Spike was the “Big Bad” of “Buffy” season 2, and its reduced mansion in the Sunnydale hills, known as Crawford Street Mansion, was its base of operations. In season 3, that same mansion held Angel David Boreanaz, and although the only real shots of the Ennis House used at the show was the facade, that facade influenced the design of the interior. Created on sound sounds, built inside the mansion using a aesthetic “textile block” similar to his own Ennis house, extending the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright’s attitude on Maya’s revival style even further into the screen history.

In its more than 100 years history, Ennis House has also appeared in “The Day of the Locust,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Rush Hour,” “Beverly Hills Cop II,” and several other productions. Although seriously damaged in the 1994 Nortridge earthquake, and took a further beat during the 2005 rains, extensive refurbishments have occurred in the years since then, ensuring that the home continues to stand for another 100 years.