Primary Building Material: MASONRY/Stone, plaster
Midway Farm Buildings Expansion at Taliesin [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (1944)
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: Wright, Frank Lloyd.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: Midway Farm.
Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.
Occupancy form or use: FARM BUILDINGS.
Principal building materials: MASONRY/Stone, plaster.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 5.
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.
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Roof type: Gable.
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 (1) See Midway Farm Historic Structures Report, May 1944 (Book# 1502) p. 9. Geiger 06/19/10.
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:
Lipman, Jonathan, and Levine, Neil. The Wright State: Frank Lloyd Wright In Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum.
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].