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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

Country House Reconstruction for Frank Lloyd Wright, "Taliesin" (Taliesin II) [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1914)

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: Wright, Frank Lloyd.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Taliesin II.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Personal, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, stone.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 24.

Drawing Number and Description

1403.??6     Elevations of farm unit, chicken coop, goat pen, and silo?
1403.??8     Millwork details, sash, door and trim
1403.??9     Floor plan; transition from Taliesin I to Taliesin II
1403.?11     Longitudinal cross section of Studio
1403.?12     Studio, rendered version of 1104.0014
1403.?14     Tranverse cross section of Studio
1403.001     Blank
1403.002     Aerial perspective showing roofs
1403.003     Blank
1403.004     Elevations
1403.005     Perspective of Taliesin drafting room?
1403.006     Floor plan of rear, farm, court
1403.007     Elevation and cross section
1403.008     Goat pen, section and elevation
1403.009     Elevations of the goat pen
1403.010     Elevations of the farm unit
1403.011     Taliesin I floor plan with many changes by Wright
1403.012     See Taliesin I, 1104.?12, south and east elevations
1403.012     South and east elevations (Incorectly titled)
1403.013     See Taliesin I, 1104.?13
1403.013     Section/elevations
1403.020     East elevation and two section/elevations
1403.022     See 1104.?22 Aerial perspective from the original approach road
1403.023     Partial first floor plan, probably altered to show landscaping
Project Coordinator: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Preliminary working drawings coordinator: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Working drawings coordinator: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Roof type: CrFrm1+2.

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.

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: 9/15/1914.

Preliminary drawings date: 9/15/1914.

Notes and References

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