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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


Administration Building for the Larkin Company [Buffalo, New York] (1903)

Drawing: Perspective from extreme right of entrance. Black and White

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0403.007

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/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; mounted to board. (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 6" x 11"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Klumb, Henry

Notes and comments: "Inscribed: Grammar of the Protestant." (by FLLW) Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 28] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.