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John Geiger identified over 6,300 Frank Lloyd Wright project drawings in his database. The Frank Lloyd Wright Archives is the primary source for the bulk of Wright project drawings. The inventory system developed by the Wright Archives plays an important role in understanding notes and other references found throughout the Geiger database. This search presents projects and drawing numbers according to the Wright Archives assignments. Drawings held in other collections may appear integrated into the scheme by Geiger through speculative placement indicated with a question mark.

INFORMATION FOR PROJECT NUMBER 0108

Entrance Gates, Poultry House, and Stable for Edward Carson Waller [River Forest, Illinois] (1901)

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: Waller, Edward Carson.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Outbuildings.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 9.

Drawing Number and Description

0108.001     Entrance gates and fence
0108.002     Floor plan of Poultry house
0108.002     Floor plan and elevation of the poultry shed
0108.003     Poultry house section and details
0108.005     Floor plan barn first floor
0108.006     Floor plan barn second floor
0108.008     Elevations of barn longitudinal
0108.009     Elevations of barn lateral
0108.010     Barn details

Roof pattern type: 0203 Rectangle/applied

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

Notes And References

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