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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


House for Alma Goetsch and Katherine Winkler [Okemos, Michigan] (1939)

Drawing: Floor plan, probably for Hitchcock

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3907.??1

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: Publication.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) Look like Howe? Probably drawn for Hitchcock, In The Nature of Materials. John W. Geiger 06/21/02

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 375] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 375] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 57] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: Selected Houses #6 (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1991). Note by John Geiger: Jacobs #1, Pew, Goetch/Winkler, L. Lewis