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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


Midway Gardens for Edward C. Waller and Oscar Friedman, scheme 1, project [Chicago, Illinois] (1914)

Drawing: Preliminary plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1407.008

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

Notes and comments: Alternately known as Vogelsang Dinner Gardens and Hotel, "Sans Souci"; attribution to Midway Gardens by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in Taschen Vol. 1, p. 442

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 86, page 112] in Kruty, Paul, Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1998).