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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: Aerial perspective (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910), P. VII (a)

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0111.??2

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.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 172] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate VII(a)] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909) (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1983).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate VII(a)] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, Buildings, Plans and Designs (New York: Horizon Press, 1963). Note by John Geiger: Reprint of Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910/1911.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 172] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).