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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


Block Plan of 24 Houses for Charles E. Roberts, project [Oak Park, Illinois] (1903)

Drawing: Site plan on regular lots with alternate rotation.

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0309.006

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) Roof pattern forms classic FLLW cruciform with alternate rotations. This is a symetrical cruciform. John W. Geiger 02/07/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 3, page 98] 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 3-9a, page 57] in Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna, Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright's Landscape Designs (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 118, page 67] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).