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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


Oceanside House for Mrs. Clinton Walker, "Cabin on the Rocks" [Carmel, California] (1948)

Drawing: Elevations

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5122.019

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/Developmental.
Sheet Number: 3
Scale: 1/4" = 1' - 0".
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis
Source of attribution: Besinger Record

Notes and comments: Howe claims authorship for this drawing. Not so. It is Besinger. Drawing titles may be by someone else. John W. Geiger 5/15/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 516, page 265] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).