Polito House

{{Short description|House in Los Angeles}}

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| name = Polito House

| image = Polito House (Los Angeles, Calif.).jpg

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| location = West Hollywood, California

| coordinates = {{coord|34|7|23.60281|N|118|22|3.756|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Los Angeles

| area =

| built = 1940

| architect = Raphael Soriano

| architecture =

| designation1 = Los Angeles

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| designation1_number = 1100

| governing_body = private

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The Polito House is a house in Los Angeles designed by Raphael Soriano, FAIA, built in 1938 and completed in 1940.

Located on a street-to-street lot on Queens Road, it features a continuous band of horizontal steel casement windows, swimming pool, sunning platforms and bridge to terraced gardens. A key feature was a 10' x 20' sandblasted window that allowed light to reach the interior stairwell while providing privacy. {{cite web|author=Pauline O'Connor |url=https://la.curbed.com/2013/1/30/10278850/sorianos-international-style-polito-house-above-the-sunset-strip |title=Soriano's International-Style Polito House Above Sunset Strip}}{{cite web|url=https://usmodernist.org/soriano.htm |title=RAPHAEL S. SORIANO, FAIA (1904-1988)}}

According to the Triangle Modernist Houses, the International-style residence was spotlighted in the February 1946 issue of Architectural Record.{{cite web|author=Pauline O'Connor |url=https://la.curbed.com/2013/1/30/10278850/sorianos-international-style-polito-house-above-the-sunset-strip |title=Soriano's International-Style Polito House Above Sunset Strip}}{{cite web|url=https://usmodernist.org/soriano.htm |title=RAPHAEL S. SORIANO, FAIA (1904-1988)}}

The Politio House is one of only 12 of 50 buildings remaining by Raphael Soriano, with demolition, earthquakes and wildfire all taking their toll on the rest.{{cite web|url=https://www.midcenturyhome.com/raphael-sorianos-julius-shulman-house-studio/|title=Raphael Soriano’s Shulman House and Studio}}

The house was photographed by American architectural photographer Julius Shulman in 1940.{{cite web|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.14591585|title=Job 5501: Polito House (Los Angeles, Calif.)}}{{cite web|url=https://rosettaapp.getty.edu//delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE129243|title=Job 5501: Polito House (Los Angeles, Calif.)}}