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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 Aline Barnsdall, "Hollyhock House" [Los Angeles, California] (1919)

Drawing: Floor plan, probably for Hitchcock

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1705.052

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: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: (a) Jack claims other drawings comparable to this one that were done for Hitchcock so I assume this is the same. John W. Geiger 04/21/10

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 250, page 141] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 236] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Fank Lloyd Wright 1887-1 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 8-5, page 80] in Smith, Kathryn, Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House and Olive Hill Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdal (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 236] 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 color illustration [page 7] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2002, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2002). Note by John Geiger: This listing has an East arrow but no FLLW archive #?

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5-2, page 177] in Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna, Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002). Note by John Geiger: Views from house