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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.

Alternative placename: "Parkwyn Village"

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

Note: The following information concerning this project represents original research and analysis by John Geiger, and is based in his long and detailed study of the Frank Lloyd Wright literature as well as personal contacts with members of the Taliesin Fellowship and architectural historians. In addition, he added his own categories of building type and compositional form, as well as other points of consideration that he deemed important to understanding of the design.

Name of client: Levin, Robert.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Parkwyn Village.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Concrete block, usonian automatic.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 8.

Drawing Number and Description

4911.001     Perspective from below the hill
4911.001     Perpsective from downhill side
4911.003     Aerial perspective from the back, uphill side
4911.005     Main floor plan
4911.006     Elevations
4911.008     Cross Sections
4911.012     Floor plan
4911.012     Floor plan

Individuals recorded as contributing to project:

Note: Not everyone who contributed to a project may be named; only those whose participation has been confirmed from a source appear above. Occasionally names presented as contributors to a project may seem chronologically anomalous. This usually occurs when an individual prepared drawings for publicity, exhibition, or publication long after the original date of a commission.

Geiger, John
Howe, John

Roof type: GableFlat.

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of roof structure found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution None recorded.