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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: MASONRY/Brick

Public Comfort Station, Ladies Kiosk, project [Ottawa, Canada] (1915)

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: Canadian Government.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: CIVIC/Park Feature.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 2.

Drawing Number and Description


Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) McCarter, FLLw, p. 348.

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:

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1914-1923 (Volume 4). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-515-X].