This Los Angeles home was built in 1962 on stilts over which the home seems to float.

This Los Angeles home was built in 1962 on stilts over which the home seems to float.

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LA’s Historic Stilt Homes - As Seen In ‘Heat’

During the 1950s and ‘60s, about 1,500 stilt homes, designed to take advantage of hilly lots otherwise deemed “unbuildable,” were built in California. Seemingly gravity-defying, these homes were built on supporting stilts over which the home seems to float. One of the stilt homes was used as a shooting location for Michael Mann’s crime drama Heat, starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino.