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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

American System-Built Houses for Arthur L. Richards [Milwaukee, Wisconsin] (1915)

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: Richards, Arthur L..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 15.

Drawing Number and Description

1506.??2     Interior perspective, model C-3
1506.??3     Interior isometric of Model C-3
1506.??3     Floor plan and cover of publication Model C3
1506.001     Perspective
1506.006     Perspective of three story urban house
1506.083     Floor plan of basement Models B1 and B11
1506.117     Perspective of single story bungalow, Model C-3
1506.118     Perspective, wood block print
1506.122     Perspective Model B1 wirg flpped plan and hip roof
1506.123     Perspective of two story Model D101
1506.137     Floor plan
1506.143     Perpsective
1506.158     Perspective of Model B1
1506.159     Interior perspective
1506.243     Kitchen details

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:
Raymond, Antonin


Plan type: BandBBUsonian.

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.

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: 6/1/1915.

Notes and References

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