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The Los Angeles Board of Zoning Appeals on Tuesday upheld a city ruling ordering a stop to private gatherings at a historic Frank Lloyd Wright house in the Los Feliz area.
The board voted 4 to 0 to deny an appeal of a zoning administrator's determination that renting the grounds of the Ennis-Brown house for private events violates the city's residential zoning code.
Los Feliz residents testified at the hearing that frequent events held at the house, at 2607-2655 Glendower Ave., bring noise and traffic to their neighborhood.
The monumental mansion on a hillside near Griffith Park is owned by a nonprofit corporation and is the largest and last of four experimental Mesoamerican block structures designed by Wright in Los Angeles. Built in 1924, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Houses.
The board's decision is the latest round in a long-running feud between Augustus Brown, curator and former owner of the house, and the people who live near it. City officials have twice before ordered a stop to gatherings at the house.
At issue in the dispute is the practice of the Trust for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage-the group...