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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


Guesthouse Alterations for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., "Fallingwater" [Bear Run, Pennsylvania] (1947)

Drawing: Aerial perspective from entrance side of revised Guesthouse

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4702.001

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: 36 x 24"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: (a) Proposed revisions to Guesthouse and moving the entrance to Fallingwater from Shady Lane above the guest house.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 134] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 110] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).