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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


Gate Lodge for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Jr., "Fallingwater", project [Bear Run, Pennsylvania] (1956)

Drawing: Perspective of gate lodge at Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5715.001

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.

Notes and comments: This perspective is of the original scheme of three housing units. John W. Geiger 01/31/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 459] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 121] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 494, page 248] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).