Hanna House

This is a «must see» house for FLW fans. It is a house that FLW designed to be changed years later, something we don’t see or hear about in other properties.
The docent was good, but didn’t have answers to many questions and suggested that some of the queries would make good discussion points at training sessions. Hmm.
As a Currier Museum docent (our Zimmerman House is our largest work of art and only FLW property in New England open to the public), I couldn’t get used to all the touching that is permitted. The house is actually used by Stanford University, however, so it is not a museum piece.
Don’t miss a tour if you are in the area and plan ahead. It is only open a few days a month.

The Hanna House docents are wonderful. This is a special opportunity to view the first California house by FLW. We were fortunate to have John Hanna join our tour for an intimate look into his family home’s history.

One word AMAZING the house and the Docent who guided our tour. For more information click onto the link below.
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One word. AMAZING!!! The house is amazing and the tour is amazing too!
Just went this past weekend and it was my second time seeing a Frank Lloyd Wright building in the flesh (first one being the Guggenheim Museum in NYC), but this was the first residential home I’d seen of his. The differences between the two types of Wright buildings was large, but it still had a similar style reminiscent of Wright.
I love the hexagonal honeycomb shape of the building, tiles and furniture. It was pretty cool. The living room was also hexagonal shaped. Our docent, Martha, told us that Frank Lloyd Wright didn’t like rectangular shaped rooms because people don’t naturally move in the shape of a rectangle when moving about in a room. The hexagon shape definitely made the natural progression of the room more smooth and felt expansive.
The amount of storage space and design of public areas were pretty amazing. The immense amount of detail and thought put into the architecture was super interesting. Great for architecture buffs!
Definitely plan ahead for this because you do need to book tickets ahead of time. They’re only open certain days in the month and my friend and I were fortunate since we decided 2 weeks beforehand that we wanted to go and they were still selling tickets for the tours. Make note to carpool also since each parking permit is $ 5, you need a special permit to park in the area because the rest of the area is residential and they don’t want randoms blocking traffic there without a permit. The tour was supposed to be an hour long but ran a little over because there was so much to go over. Super informative! I think it was the most I’d ever learned about a space of this size in an hour. Also, I think they only offer 3 tours on Saturday, one at 11, 11:15 and 11:30 and we saw them closing the window shades by the time we were leaving. Tickets are also $ 10 so it wasn’t too bad for what you get.
I would totally come here again just to stare at the insides of the house!

I put off doing this tour for years, but I’m glad I finally got around to doing it. This is one of the best tours I’ve done in the bay area. I’ve been to Falling Water (and Taliesin West), but I like this house better than Falling Water. This house was WAY ahead of its time. If you like architecture or just looking at cool houses, you must see this.

If you will be in Stanford make sure you don’t miss Hanna House. This early Frank Lloyd Wright house is beautiful and fascinating. Among other things this house was designed to change as the family aged and children left; bedrooms became studies and playrooms morphed to dining rooms.
The tour is interesting and I only wish that it lasted even longer. The tours fill up well in advance so plan ahead, if you have shorter notice try the Thursday tour which fills up slower.

First Frank Lloyd Wright house that I’ve seen and it was really really cool. I’m not that into architecture, but the great guide really made visitors notice the intricate details. I’m amazed that there is only one right angle in the home and the honeycomb patterns that are apparent in the house is so cool.
If you have the chance, definitely check this place out! I would definitely suggest this place to take out of town visitors, it is worth the stop. Make sure to reserve your tickets, there is an onilne ordering system, which makes it really easy to find out the available dates.
But definitely, check it out.

First time to see Hanna House which is a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Professor Paul Hanna, his wife Jean, and 3 kids. It was designed in the mid 1930s.
Tours are 1hr by RSVP only, call (650) 725‑8352 or email:
. Tours are $ 10 per person, parking is $ 5 per car — best to carpool.
We had tour guide: Barbara Newton. She was good and it was very informative.
Notice lots of horizontals & hexagons. Built 72 yrs ago. It had some damage in the 1989 earthquake and it took 10 yrs to restore. No one lives in the home anymore, grad students live in the guest house.
You can take lots of pics of the outside of the house, NONE inside.
One bathroom was available for use — I was the only one on my tour that needed to go, oh well, I can say I peed in a FLW house.
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Seriously, this is one of those places I had been meaning to go to for like 10 years. Very few people know there are Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in the Bay Area, and fewer know about the Hanna Honeycomb House. I made a point of dragging a co-​worker here within about a month of starting work at Stanford.
You will not be disappointed! The tour is wonderful, and very informative without boring you. The house is lovely, and typifies some of Wright’s main interests and stylistic themes. This used to be the provost’s house until the 1989 quake, so the last full time resident was Condaleeza Rice (no, seriously, I’m not kidding, it was!).
The grounds are beautiful too, and so is the amazing fountain. The home’s systems, like all Wright homes, were incredibly modern for their era.
You do have to reserve in advance, and they send you tickets and a parking pass for the street (its restricted parking so people who live on the street aren’t constantly inundated by tourists parking on the street). Also, the driveway is very steep. Don’t wear heels, either, you have to wear soft-​soled shoes in the house to protect the floors. And tours start on time, so don’t be late or you could miss out.
FYI, there is also another Frank Lloyd Wright building in SF, on Maiden Lane near Union Square.

This historic house, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s last designs, was recently retrofitted and has reopened for tours. Check out the repeating honeycombs in the tiles, the building’s structure, and the floors.
If you’re thinking about going, act early, because they’re only open 1^st & 3^rd Sundays of each month, and 2^nd and 4^th Thursdays. Sunday tours take a long time to get into, so make sure to check out the website and call/​email ahead for your reservation.