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Frank Lloyd Wright Commission Titles

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. Thomas P. Hardy [Racine, Wisconsin] (1905)

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: Hardy, Thomas P..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, stucco.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 19.

Drawing Number and Description

0506.??3     Three floor plans (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0506.??4     Three floor plans for Hitchcock
0506.??5     Perspective from very low lake side (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0506.001     Scheme #1 Perspective from the far left lake side
0506.002     Perspective from street side of house
0506.003     Perspective from way way down below on lake side
0506.004     Scheme #1 Pespective from the lake left with note by Wright
0506.005     Scheme #1 Living room floor plan
0506.006     Scheme #1 Dining room level floor plan
0506.006     Page from House Beautiful, V. 20, #1, June 1906
0506.007     Scheme #1 Upper level floor plan
0506.008     Scheme #1 Living room level plan, variatiion on .005
0506.011     Scheme #1 dining room level floor plan, variation on .006
0506.014     Scheme #1 Cross section and elevation
0506.015     Perspective from street showing gasrage at the north entrance
0506.021     Perspective from lake left (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0506.022     Perspective, horizontal from the left lake view. Triptych frame
0506.023     Basement, first story and second story plans
0506.024     Cross sections

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:
Mahony, Marion
Wright, Frank Lloyd


Plan type: Cheney/Hardy.

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

Roof type: Big Roof.

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: 0103 Rectangle

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: 6/1/1905.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: None recorded.