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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 5122

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

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Cabin on the Rocks.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Garage/restaurant.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Stone.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 7.

Drawing Number and Description

5122.001     Site and floor plan as altered by Aguar
5122.005     Perspective from the ocean
5122.007     Aerial perspective from the entrance side
5122.013     Plan as Revised April 20, 1950
5122.018     Floor plan
5122.019     Elevations
5122.021     Section and details

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.

Besinger, Curtis
Working drawings coordinator: Besinger, Curtis
Construction supervision: Olds, Walter

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) "working drawings by C. Besinger. Construction supervision by Walter Olds. Eric Wright helped (working drawings)". Curtis W. Besinger record. 11/21/95 (b) McCarter, Robert. Frank Lloyd Wright (London: Phaidon Press, 1997), p. 355; Besinger, p. 212.

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.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-518-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-8228-5770-0].