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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

House for Susan Lawrence Dana [Springfield, Illinois] (1902)

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: Dana, Susan Lawrence.

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: 31.

Drawing Number and Description

9905.??2     Elevation of bronze gates at main entry
9905.??3     Perspective (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
9905.??4     Perspective of dining room
9905.??5     First and second floor plans (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
9905.??6     Perspective of entrance side from left of center (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
9905.??7     Interior perspective of library (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
9905.?14     Leaded glass panel for window over the pool in the entry hall
9905.001     Perspective sketch of entrance hall
9905.002     Perspective sketch of gallery
9905.003     Cut away perspective of dining room
9905.004     Perspective sketch of entrance hall, a step up from .001.
9905.006     Interior perspective of gallery, early
9905.007     Dining room chandelier,early elevation
9905.008     Leaded glass chandelier for dining room
9905.009     Leaded glass window in dining room. Frehand by Wright
9905.010     Butterfly wreath glass fanlight for the main door
9905.011     Leaded glass doors from den and living room to hallway
9905.012     Pair of leaded glass "sumack" panels 60 3/4" in height
9905.013     Leaded glass windows for reception room, hallway, dine clerestory
9905.014     Elevation of two leaded glass door panels at pool in entry hall
9905.015     Leaded glass "tapestry" panels hung in front of arched opening
9905.016     Leaded glass windows for living room and master bedroom
9905.017     Studies for frieze design
9905.019     Elevation of bronze gates at main entry
9905.025     First floor plan
9905.026     Plan of second floor
9905.028     Elevations, rendered with brick color
9905.029     Cross sections and partial elevations, brick color rendered
9905.041     Interior perspecive looking into library
9905.063     Leaded glass ceiling and soffit? lights in dining room
9905.064     Leaded glass windows for unknown location

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

Construction supervision: Griffin, Walter Burley

Roof type: Hipped2.

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.

Roof pattern type: 0303 Cruciform/Rectangle/two/more level

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify types of roof pattern from an aerial perspective found Frank Lloyd Wright projects.These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFPATTERNTYPE] 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: 7/18/1902.

Preliminary drawings date: 7/18/1902.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: Storrer, Comp. p. 459.

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].
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1715-6].
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 1887-1901 (Volume 1). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-512-5].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-520-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Sloan, Julie L.. Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-2306-7].
Smith, Kathryn. A Beat of the Rythmic Clock of Nature: Frank Lloyd Wright''s Fallingwater. Southern Illinois University Press. [ISBN: 0-8093-1956-X].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G..
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Buildings, Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0790979667].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Early Work by Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Bramhall House.
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: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909). New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-486-24457-1].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Ausgeführte Bauten . Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G..