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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT CLIENT NAMES

Frank Lloyd Wright had 685 known clients.  A given client may have commissioned one or several projects from the architect. This search approach sorts Wright projects alphabetically by the last name of the client, and provides links to project information and all related project drawings detailed in the database. Wright also produced a great deal of work for his own purposes, essentially as his own client. References to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, Illinois, Taliesin estate at Spring Green, Wisconsin, and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, as well as other more temporary residences and studios (e.g., Chicago, New York, Italy, Tokyo, Japan) will be found indexed under his own name.

Project Information

Allen, Henry J.

House for Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Allen [Wichita, Kansas] (undated)

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. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided. Sometimes there is an indication of attribution for which there is no matching footnote recorded. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick, cement plaster.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 27.

Drawing Number and Description

1701.??1     First and second floor plans
1701.001     First floor and site plan; very early
1701.002     Elevation from street; original sketch by FLLW
1701.003     Floor plan; first floor basically established
1701.004     Floor plan second floor
1701.005     Perspective from front left
1701.006     Floor plan of first floor after 1936
1701.010     Ground floor plan, partial of service wing
1701.011     Floor plan second floor and perspective of bedroom
1701.012     Floor plan second floor and perspective of bedroom
1701.014     First floor plan
1701.015     Second floor plan
1701.016     Elevations and cross sctions
1701.017     North elevation
1701.018     West elevation, cross section and details
1701.019     South elevation, cross section, reflected ceiuling plan living ro
1701.021     Leaded glass ceiling light for the dining room
1701.035     dining room table and chairs
1701.042     dining room chair
1701.043     Plant stand?
1701.044     Plant stand?
1701.045     Leaded glass window, not executed
1701.046     Leaded glass window? or ceiling panel?
1701.050     Leaded glass window schedule
1701.053     Rug pattern
1701.054     Rug pattern
1701.055     Interior perspective

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

Project Drawing Date Range

Note: Dates for preliminary and working drawings, as well as the start and completion of construction, appear here only when present in the database. Through careful study of original, reproduced, or published Wright drawings, John Geiger developed an elaborate granulation for design process dates and their attributions. Such information is largely available only for Wright projects dating from the mid-1930s until 1959. Sources were often footnoted by an alphanumeric system, but the references are sometimes missing from the locations where they were intended to be recorded; the relationship between footnote letter or numeral and reference is absent. In order to retain the presence of available information, citations are here shown grouped together in one comment field. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field. The relevance of references provided by John Geiger can often be recovered through examination of the publications used in his research.See the list of principal bibliographical sources used for this purpose.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: January 1, 1917.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: None recorded.