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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 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levin [Kalamazoo, Michigan] (1948)

Drawing: Elevations

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4911.006

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: Working Drawings.

Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.

Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Geiger, John

Notes and comments: Howe claims authorship for this drawing. Not so. John John W. Geiger did the entire set of working drawings. The lettering is obviously not Howe's. I am flattered that Howe thought it looked like his drawing. John W. Geiger.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 334, page 179] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).