The house was known as an avant-garde salon, and the list of individuals who spent significant periods of time there or lived in the house's two Rudolph Schindler-designed apartments includes John Bovingdon, Beniamino Bufano, Xavier Cugat, Rudi Gernreich, Martha Graham, Philip Johnson, Peter Krasnow, Bella Lewitzky, Jean Negulesco, Richard Neutra, Claude Rains, Herman Sachs, Galka Scheyer, Edward Weston, Olga Zacsek, and Fritz Zwicky.

[6] The original owners lived in the house until Harriet Freeman's death in 1986, when she bequeathed it to the USC School of Architecture.

[7] The items were discovered missing in 2012 from a locked room in the storage facility managed by USC's School of Architecture.

[9] In 2022, USC sold the house to a real estate developer, Richard Weintraub, under the condition that it be preserved.

[10] A 3,200-page, seven-volume set of books published in 2014 documented a five-year program of studying the history and condition of the house.