Primary Building Material: MASONRY/Stone, lapped boards
House for Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Elam [Austin, Minnesota] (1950)
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: Elam, S. P..
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.
Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.
Principal building materials: MASONRY/Stone, lapped boards.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 3.
Drawing Number and Description
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.
Howe, John
Roof type: ShedGable.
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 None recorded.