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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 9510

Wolf Lake Amusement Park, project [Chicago, Illinois] (1895)

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): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Amusement Park.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 20.

Drawing Number and Description

9510.005     Preliminary perspective
9510.005     Aerial perspeective
9510.006     Aerial perspective, sketchy
9510.007     Aerial perspective
9510.009     Perspective of left half
9510.010     Aerial perspective
9510.012     Site plan, early
9510.013     Site plan, early
9510.014     Site plan with development
9510.015     Site plan with development
9510.016     Site plan
9510.017     Site 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.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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: October 1, 1895.

Notes And References

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