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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


Apartment Building for Edward C. Waller and Oscar Friedman, "Lexington Terrace" [Chicago, Illinois] (1901)

Drawing: Perspective view of entrance

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0111.028

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: Tracing paper, vellum with sepia ink; black ink; watercolor.
Drawing measurements: 8" x 14"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) The entrance as drawn here does not appear on the over all perspective .002. It is apparently intended for the rectangular center entrance of each main building block. John W. Geiger 10/09/00

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as an illustration [Figure or plate 17] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1984).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5] 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.