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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

Drafting Room for the Taliesin Fellowship Complex [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1933)

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: Hillside.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: CIVIC/Education.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Stone, plaster.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 34.

Drawing Number and Description

3301.001     Aerial perspective
3301.004     Aerial perspective from southwest
3301.006     Aerial perpsective of site, very early
3301.009     Details of''print shop'' at eventual''kitchen'' at Hillside
3301.010     Aerial perspective from Southwest (Is this drawing .001 or .010)
3301.011     Aerial perspepctive of site with initial development
3301.013     Watwer mins and sewer system diagramed
3301.015     Site floor plan, flly developed pubkkication drawing
3301.046     Apprentice room adjacent to drafting room, perspective
3301.052     Apprentice room adjacent to drafting room, perspective
3301.053     Apprentice room adjacent to drafting room, plan and 4 interior elevations
3301.054     Apprentice room adjacent to drafting room, plan and 4 interior elevations
3301.072     Site plan with dafting room and existing Home buiulding developed
3301.073     Floor plan with drafting and Home building developed
3301.077     Truss detail of dining room
3301.079     Elevations and sections
3301.080     Details of dining room
3301.081     Floor plan and cross section of dining roo,
3301.085     Cross section of dining room
3301.086     Interior perspective of dining room
3301.087     Interior perspective of dining hall
3301.091     South elevation through the driveway and perspective of dining ro
3301.100     Apprentice room adjacent to drafting room, interior elevation
3301.118     Floor plan and elevation of West Cottage, whatever that is
3301.129     Floor plan and elevation of West Cottage
3301.131     Drafting table, two elevations
3301.132     Interior perspective of the drafting room
3301.133     Interior perspecive of drafting room with truss added members
3301.135     Elevation of drafting room truss before addition of extra members
3301.142     Floor plan drafting room fire[lace and apprentice bath
3301.146     Floor plan drafting room and aoorentice rooms, early
3301.167     Cross seection of drafting showing raised center clerestory
3301.168     Interior perspective of dafting room before aded members to truss
3301.171     Detail of drafting room truss before extra members were added

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:
Fritz, Herbert
Wright, Frank Lloyd


Roof type: Hipped.

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.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) McCarter, Robert. Frank Lloyd Wright (London: Phaidon Press, 1997), p. 351 (b) Drafting room completed and furnished fall of 1939. Besinger, p. 27.

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:

Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
Lipman, Jonathan, and Levine, Neil. The Wright State: Frank Lloyd Wright In Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum.
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 Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-522-2].
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].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1699-O].