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Frank Lloyd Wright commissions

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Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects for sites located in 48 American states and 10 foreign countries. Some unbuilt projects, graphics designs, and publications do not have locations given in the archival record and are absent in this search.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT DRAWING DETAIL


Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Cross section, north/south, showing the stairs from the entrance

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.054

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.

Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.

Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.

Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) The cross section shows the broad flight of stairs from the entrance link to the auditorium, the pulpit on a raised platform on the north with an unused gallery above, and the extension of the auditorium space over the entrance link. John W. Geiger

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 78, page 104] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).