When the Shulman House, high in the Hollywood Hills, was designated a Los Angeles Cultural-Historic Monument in 1987, its nomination came from none other than critic Esther McCoy, doyenne of Southern California Modernism. She cited the 1950 home as the last surviving unaltered example of Raphael Soriano's prefabricated steel-frame buildings. Originally with grounds by landscape architect Garrett Eckbo, the house was also significant for its longtime owner—legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman— who captured the work of Richard Neutra, the Eameses, and many other talents, beginning in the midcentury period.