Primary Building Material: WOOD/Wood frame, stucco
House for Dr. Allison W. Harlan [Chicago, Illinois] (1892)
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: Harlan, Dr. Allison W..
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.
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: 1.
Drawing Number and Description
Roof type: Pyramidal.
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.