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Frank LLoyd Wright Archives Commission NUMBERS

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 1512

Christian Catholic Church, scheme 2, project [Zion, Illinois] (1915)

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: Christian Catholic Church.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: CIVIC/Religous.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.

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

Drawing Number and Description

1512.005     Logitudional section
1512.017     Floor plan of basement
1512.018     Main floor plan
1512.019     Auditorium floor plan
1512.024     Side elevation
1512.025     Elevations of the two ends

Project Drawing Date Range

Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959. Sources were often footnoted by an alphanumeric system, but the references are sometimes missing from the locations where they were intended to be recorded; the relationship between footnote letter or numeral and reference is absent. In order to retain the presence of available information, citations are here shown grouped together in one comment field. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field. The relevance of references provided by John Geiger can often be recovered through examination of the publications used in his research.See the list of principal bibliographical sources used for this purpose.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: March 6, 1915.

Working drawings date September 6, 1915.

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks and Futagawa, Yukio. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4) (Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1985), p. 82. Geiger 11/15/00.

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:

Kruty, Paul. Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. [ISBN: 0-252-02366-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-515-X].