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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Cross section, north/south, showing the stairs from the entrance

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.054

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) The cross section shows the broad flight of stairs from the entrance link to the auditorium, the pulpit on a raised platform on the north with an unused gallery above, and the extension of the auditorium space over the entrance link. John W. Geiger

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 78, page 104] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).