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More than 100 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions have special place names (e.g. "Hollyhock House" or "Fallingwater"). These titles were often bestowed by Wright on his designs but some were applied by clients. Only Wright projects with nicknames appear in this search.

Alternative placename: "Shiprock"

House for Rose Pauson [Phoenix, Arizona] (1938)

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.

Name of client: Pauson, Rose.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Shiprock.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: CONCRETE/Desert and lapped boards.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 18.

Drawing Number and Description

4011.??1     First and second floor plans. probably for Hitchcock
4011.001     Perspective from the back from below the hill
4011.002     Perspective from the back left
4011.002     Perspective from the back from below the hill
4011.003     Lower floor plan and rear elevation; original Wright sketch
4011.004     Lower and upper floor plans; second stage develpoment by Wright
4011.005     Plan and two elevations of pump house and carport by Wright
4011.006     Elevation of entrance side of house, carport; early study by Wrig
4011.006     Elevation form street
4011.007     Ground and upper floor plans, early presentation drawings
4011.009     Perspective from the rear of house; early view
4011.021     Lateral cross section through living room and entry
4011.049     Longitudinal cross sections
4011.050     Cross section through stair to second floor
4011.053     Interior elevatins of dining and entrance hall showing the stair
4011.054     Cross sections; 1/4" Longitudinal and lateral+ 3/4" @ living roo
4011.055     Elevations
4011.068     Pump house, elevations section and roof 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.

Howe, John
Thomson, James
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Working drawings coordinator: Mosher, Robert Keel
Construction supervision: Mosher, Robert Keel

Roof type: Flat.

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: None recorded.