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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: Elevation from the West, early hipped roof version

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1705.066

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: City of Los Angeles.
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: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: (a) This is an important drawing showing the original Prairie hipped roof pattern. John W. Geiger 05/07/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5, page 5] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1917-1932 (Volume 10) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as an illustration [Figure or plate 27, page 40] in Herr, Jeffery, Aline Barnsdall's Olive Hill Project (Los Angeles, California: City of Los Angeles, 2005).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 4-2, page 40] in Smith, Kathryn, Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House and Olive Hill Buildings and Projects for Aline Barnsdal (New York: Rizzoli, 1992).

Appears as a color illustration [page 48] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a color illustration [page 132] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).