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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

Resort Inn for Dr. Alexander Chandler, "San Marcos-in-the-Desert", project [San Marcos, Arizona] (1928)

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: Chandler, Dr. Alexander.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: San Marcos-in-the-Desert.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Hotel/Motel.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, textile.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 61.

Drawing Number and Description

2704.??1     Cross section of bedroom wing
2704.??2     Floor plan of typical bedrom unit
2704.??3     Floor flan of central unit
2704.003     Floor plan middle terrace level
2704.004     Floor plan of upper level
2704.004     Floor plan, very early
2704.005     Floor plan of central pavilion, detail
2704.006     Elevation south
2704.007     Elevation of entrance and central feature
2704.008     Floor plan and section
2704.019     Floor plan storage qrea and shops Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer ?
2704.024     Plan of whatever ??
2704.033     Looks like a reflacted ceiling plan of the stair off the Gallery
2704.034     Looks like a reflected ceilign plan of the Dining Room
2704.040     Reflected plan of dining room ceiling
2704.040     Reflected ceiling plan?
2704.044     Cross section and interior elevation of Dining Room
2704.046     Partial floor plan and cross sectionif Dining Room
2704.047     Aerial perspective
2704.048     Aerial perspective rendered by Lloyd wright
2704.049     Perspective looking towards entrance
2704.050     Perspective detail of center portion of building
2704.051     Interior perspective of lobby
2704.052     Site Plan
2704.056     Rendered perspective of center section
2704.082     Floor plan of central unit at an upper l;evel
2704.090     Key plan to drawings
2704.092     Floor plan of starways and ?
2704.093     Floor plan at middle level of center section
2704.095     Floor plan at top level of center section
2704.096     Floor plan upper part of dining room
2704.097     Roof plan, center section
2704.103     Floor plan and cross section of first terrace of east wing
2704.106     Cross section through center section
2704.109     Front elevation of center section and sturio apartment wing
2704.110     Rear elevation of center section
2704.113     Cross section and details of dining room
2704.114     Rendered floor plan and elevation of right wing Section lobby/Din
2704.116     Structural: Toncan clip
2704.118     Stuctural: ceiling block
2704.119     Structural: partition block
2704.121     Structural: floor tile
2704.124     Wall block details
2704.125     Block S-5A
2704.126     Block S-6-A-B
2704.127     Block 5-6-C
2704.127     Block S-8-A-B
2704.130     Structural: base and ceiling cove
2704.136     Block S-13-A=r/l
2704.138     Block S-15-A-B
2704.139     Structural: decorated wall block
2704.139     Block S-16-A/B-C/D
2704.141     Structural: decorated parapet block
2704.149     Structural: perforated wall block
2704.150     Structural: decorated and perforated wall block
2704.150     Block S-24-A-B-C-D-E
2704.151     Concrete block patterns
2704.165     Structural: typical assembly details
2704.198     Aerial perspective
2704.198     Aerial perspective
2704.199     Interior perspective of dining room

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:
Howe, John
Karfik, Vlademir
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, 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: 4/6/1928.

Preliminary drawings date: 1/3/1928.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (1) Henry Klumb, Tafel #2, p. 99. (2) I guess these are the preliminaries. Friedland, Roger, and Zellman, Harold. The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Talisein Fellowship (New York: Regan, 2006), p. 121 Geiger 08/05/.

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.
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
De Long, David G.. Auldbrass: Frank Lloyd Wright''s Southern Plantation. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-2536-1].
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].
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2005, Vol. 16, No. 1. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
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 1924-1935 (Volume 5). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-516-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-517-6].
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].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Sweeney, Robert L.. Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture. Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press. [ISBN: 0-262-19337-X].
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].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1699-O].