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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: "Quadruple Block Plan"

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

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: Roberts, Charles E..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Quadruple Block Plan.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: SITE PLANNING/Subdivisions.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 12.

Drawing Number and Description

0309.001     Prelinimary study for the swastika rotated scheme
0309.002     Site plan for 16 units
0309.003     Site plan, rotated swastika style with central garden, 8 to block
0309.004     Basement, first floor and second floor plans of individual house
0309.006     Site plan on regular lots with alternate rotation.
0309.008     Site plan of two, four four-square swastika rotated sites,
0309.009     Site plan
0309.010     Site plan of two, four-square sited with central feature
0309.012     Elevations
0309.013     Cross section and wall section
0309.018     Perspective of two units
0309.020     Plan of half block

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.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Roof type: Hipped2.

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 (1) See drawing .010 signed FLLW 1911; drawing .001 has a date of 1903, and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer uses the project date of 0903 so I will use 1903. Geiger 02/07/98.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna. Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright''s Landscape Designs. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-513-3].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].