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John Geiger categorized 650 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions with 39 different types of construction. This search shows only Wright projects having a building materials assignment.

Primary Building Material: WOOD/Wood frame, stucco

House for Mr. and Mrs. Sherman M. Booth, project [Glencoe, Illinois] (1911)

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: Booth, Sherman M..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, stucco.

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

Drawing Number and Description

1118.??1     Very rough concept plan
1118.??2     Floor plan; very early freehand pencil sketch, not complete
1118.??3     First floor plan, probably drawn for the MOMA 1994 exhibition
1118.??4     First and second floor plans, probably drawn for Hitchcock
1118.001     Perspective from the left of the bridge showing the road.
1118.004     Perspective 45 to living room showing the bridge
1118.005     Preliminary second floor plan
1118.006     First floor plan
1118.007     East elevation
1118.008     Cross section of site at living room
1118.008     Section through living room and elevations of adjoining wings.
1118.011     East and west elevatins
1118.014     Landscape plan; by Jens Jenses, see published drawings
1118.017     Site and first story plan
1118.018     Plan of first story and plan of roof terrace and roof plan
1118.019     East and west elevations
1118.020     North and south elevations
1118.021     Cross section through living room
1118.022     Cross section of living room looking at fireplace
1118.025     Cross section of living room looking towards conservatory

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: HippedFlat.

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.