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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

Wolf Lake Amusement Park, project [Chicago, Illinois] (1895)

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: Waller, Edward Carson.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Amusement Park.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 20.

Drawing Number and Description

9510.??1     Aerial perspective: early, one of many
9510.??2     Aerial perspective. probably drawn (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
9510.??3     Site plan and small aerial perspective (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
9510.001     Aerial perspective: rendered version
9510.002     Aerial perspective, earlty study
9510.003     Aerial perspective; probably by FLLW
9510.004     Aerial perspective; detail of half circle sketch by Wright
9510.005     Preliminary perspective
9510.005     Aerial perspeective
9510.006     Aerial perspective, sketchy
9510.007     Aerial perspective
9510.008     Perspective of right half? Left half is .009
9510.009     Perspective of left half
9510.010     Aerial perspective
9510.012     Site plan, early
9510.013     Site plan, early
9510.014     Site plan with development
9510.015     Site plan with development
9510.016     Site plan
9510.017     Site plan

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:
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: 10/1/1895.

Notes and References

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