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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

Village of Bitter Root for the Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company, project [Stevensville, Montana] (1909)

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: Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: SITE PLANNING/Subdivisions.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 14.

Drawing Number and Description

0918.002     First floor plan of two story cabin
0918.003     Second floor plan of two story cabin
0918.004     Front elevation of two story cabin
0918.007     Side elevation of two story cabin
0918.008     Floor plan for Bitter Root Irrigation Company
0918.009     Front elevation of office for Bitter Root Irrigation Company
0918.010     Elevations and cross section of office for Bitter Root Irrigation
0918.013     Ground floor plan
0918.014     Second floor plan
0918.015     Elevation
0918.016     See Como Orchard 1002.??4
0918.017     Aerial perspective
0918.018     Site plan
0918.018     Site plan

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: 12/1/1909.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) I am confused about the drawings for Horseshoe Inn project and the Bitter Root project. I think they are mixed up. Geiger 02/12/98 (b) See .016. Geiger 04/10/04.

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:

Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna. Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright''s Landscape Designs. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 (Volume 3). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-515-X].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].