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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 Thomas P. Hardy, "Monolith Home" [Racine, Wisconsin] (1919)

Drawing: Elevations

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 1901.002

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/Conceptual.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with colored pencil; ink.
Drawing measurements: 18 x 28"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Schindler, Rudolf M.
Date Range
Date created: circa 1919/1920.
Revision Dates: Not recorded.

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 177, page 201] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 177, page 201] in ----, Home and Studio Foundation: The Plan for Restoration and Adaptive Use The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago, 1978).