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The information presented here exhibits the extent to which John Geiger considered many points of reference related to a given Frank Lloyd Wright project. Aside from basic information such as title, location, and project date, Geiger extended his interests to types of floor and roof plans, types of construction and building purpose, and where possible the dates of the various stages of development in the design process and construction. Geiger often included citations for bibliographic references as sources for the recorded information in an elaborate but unevenly developed series of attributions.

Project Information

House for Mr. and Mrs. Darwin D. Martin [Buffalo, New York] (1903)

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided. Sometimes there is an indication of attribution for which there is no matching footnote recorded. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field.

Name of client: Martin, Darwin D..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 46.

Drawing Number and Description

0405.??1     First floor and site plans for Martin and Barton (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0405.??2     Aerial perspective of site from corner w/ Barton (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0405.??3     Ground floor plan with early development of stable and link
0405.??4     Landscape plan by Walter Burley Griffin
0405.??5     Floor and site plan, early preliminary. fall 1903, Quinan 1331
0405.??6     Floor plan, early; Winter 1904, Quinnan #1331, p. 86, fig. 41
0405.??7     Floor plan first floor and site, Second revised preliminary
0405.??8     Floor plan, first floor and site for Arch. Rec. March 1908
0405.??9     Site plan with axes. summer 1904
0405.?10     Construction details of millwork
0405.?11     Furniture arrangement
0405.?12     Dining table and side chair
0405.?13     Proposed west wing first floor plan
0405.?14     Proposed west wing second floor
0405.002     Site plan; house, pergola, conservatory, stable and Barton house
0405.003     Basement plan
0405.004     First floor plan
0405.005     Second floor plan
0405.006     Elevations, north and south
0405.007     Elevations, east and west
0405.008     Cross sections, lateral, Longitudinal, stair, kitchen, etc
0405.012     Basement plan of garage, and conservatory
0405.013     First floor plan of barn and conservatory
0405.014     Second floor plan of barn and roof plan of conservatory
0405.016     East andd west elevations of barn and conservatory
0405.017     North and south elevations of barn and conservatory, section cons
0405.021     Site plan, house, conservatory, garage, and Barton House, AGF, Fl
0405.023     Aerial pespective of entire complex
0405.027     Perspeective. entrance elevation, early study
0405.028     Site plan showing landscaping
0405.031     Leaded glass ceiling light "Bursar''s office"
0405.031     Stained glass preliminary
0405.033     Seat for Mrs. Martin
0405.033     Leaded glass window for conservatory
0405.035     Dining room chair
0405.036     Chair, tabouret and clock
0405.039     Wisteria mural living room fireplace
0405.041     Wisteria mural study
0405.052     Interior elevations of kitchen
0405.071     Interior elevations of bedrooms
0405.091     Details
0405.096     Light fixture
0405.112     Leaded glass window, "Tree of Life"
0405.115     Leaded glass window (apparently not used)
0405.122     Leaded glass cabinet doors dining room, living room, and sideboar
0405.123     Leaded glass windows for garage

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Individuals recorded as producing drawings for this project:
Howe, John

Working drawings coordinator: White, Charles Elmer
Landscape design: Griffin, Walter Burley

Roof type: Hipped2.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of roof structure found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Roof pattern type: 0203 Rectangle/applied

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify types of roof pattern from an aerial perspective found Frank Lloyd Wright projects.These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFPATTERNTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Project Drawing Date Range

Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: 5/11/1903.

Construction started: 5/15/1904.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: Brooks, H. Allen. Writings on Wright: Selected Comment on Frank Lloyd Wright (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1981), p. 85.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2002, Vol. 13, No. 2. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2005, Vol. 16, No. 2. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-513-3].
Quinan, Jack. Frank Lloyd Wright''s Martin House: Architecture as Portraiture. Hudson, New York: Princeton Architectural Press. [ISBN: 1-56898-419-7].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Sloan, Julie L.. Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-2306-7].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G..
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Buildings, Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0790979667].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Early Work by Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Bramhall House.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909). New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-486-24457-1].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgeführte Bauten . Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G..