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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


Country House for Mr. and Mrs. Herbert F. Johnson, "Wingspread" [Racine, Wisconsin] (1937)

Drawing: Floor plan; very early with work by Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3703.004

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/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: No atribution on this drawing but it look like 100% FLLW. If it is, it is an example of FLLW ability to conceptulize a building before comitting it to paper. This house is almost all there with few things left to be developed. John W. Geiger 05/15/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 106, page 70] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1933-1959 (Volume 11) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).