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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

Theater, Terrace Stores, and Houses at Olive Hill for Aline Barnsdall, project [Los Angeles, California] (1920)

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: Barnsdall, Aline.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Theater.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 51.

Drawing Number and Description

2005.??3     Elevation sketch of Sunset Boulevard shops and rental housing
2005.??4     Perspective freehand sketch by FLLW of theatre; very early
2005.??5     Elevation; very early with finials on top of outside beams
2005.??6     Rendered section of theatre
2005.??7     Floor plan third floor, administration and restaurant
2005.??8     Floor plan, entrance level
2005.??9     Floor plan, upper level
2005.?10     Aerial perpsective plan of entire block
2005.?11     Aerial perspective of entire block
2005.?12     Floor plan of terrace stores
2005.?64     Elevations,3, freehand by Wright of accessory buildings and theater
2005.001     Perspective shown full size, sketchy but by Wright
2005.002     Elevation; theatre with surrounding buildings hill backdrop
2005.002     Perspective
2005.003     Perspective from Vermont, full block
2005.004     Perspective of entire block from Vermont Avenue
2005.005     Elevation of square topped scheme
2005.005     Elevation of side of theater
2005.006     Elevation of South side
2005.007     Cross section looking towards stage
2005.008     Elevation from the side
2005.009     Floor plans partial of first floor and upper floor
2005.010     Front elevation with notes by Wright
2005.011     Elevation and wall section
2005.018     Perspective
2005.018     Perspective of Hollywood Blvd. structures, very early
2005.021     Floor plan, early with multiple levels, work by Wright
2005.023     Section/rendered interior elevation
2005.025     Elevation of front and rendered cross section
2005.026     Elevation of theater front
2005.027     Elevation for model
2005.027     Floor plan main level
2005.028     Cross section.Longitudinal. with work by Wright
2005.031     Section/interior elevation
2005.033     Floor plan of theater
2005.034     Cross section of theatre balcony and stage, reasonably complete
2005.034     Cross sectition. londitudional, fininsh drqwing of .028
2005.038     Floor plan of theater
2005.039     Floor plan and elevation of terrace stores and houses
2005.041     First floor plan of house
2005.044     Section and perspective (freehand/FLLW) of shops and apartments
2005.045     Elevation of house
2005.046     Floor plan living floor, very rough
2005.047     Elevation of house
2005.049     Section of store front and apartments
2005.050     Floor plan of shop front and covered walk.
2005.051     Site plan of Hollywood Blvd. structures, very early
2005.061     Perspective from Hollywood Blvd.
2005.063     Interior perspecive
2005.064     Perspective, interior
2005.888     Floor plan, second floor of house

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:
Schindler, Rudolf M.
Wright, Frank Lloyd


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: 5/1/1920.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) The FLLWA doesn't seem to have an Archive number for the accessory projects at the Barnsdall site, so I will used the "Olive Hill" number for all of these. Geiger 04/23/96.

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:

Alofsin, Anthony. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 A Study of Influence. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago. [ISBN: 0-226-01366-0].
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
De Long, David G.. Frank Lloyd Wright: Designs for an American Landscape. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8109-3981-9].
Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
Herr, Jeffery. Aline Barnsdall''s Olive Hill Project. Los Angeles, California: City of Los Angeles.
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8108-1773-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-515-X].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1917-1932 (Volume 10). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-521-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-8478-3174-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0926-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Treasures of Taliesin: Seventy-Six Unbuilt Designs. Southern Illinois University Press. [ISBN: 0-8093-1235-2].
Protetch, Max. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987. New York: Max Protech Gallery.
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Smith, Kathryn. Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House and Olive Hill Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdal. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1540-4].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 1, 1894-1930. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1546-3].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 2, 1930-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1548-X].