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John Geiger applied a rating system to 714 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions using a numerical range of 10 (highest importance) to 2 (lowest importance), stepped in increments of .5, to express his view of the importance of the designs. Only projects with an evaluation number appear in this search.

Project Information

"Quadruple Block Plan" for the Ladies Home Journal [No location] (1901)

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.

Name of client: Ladies Home Journal.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Quadruple Block Plan.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

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

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 8.

Drawing Number and Description

0019.??1     Perspective of one house from front left (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0019.??2     Aerial perspective of three units and site plans (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0019.001     Study plan and perspective
0019.002     Perspective of two units
0019.003     Aerial perspective of 3 units
0019.004     Site plan of several units
0019.008     Aerial perspective of 3 units
0019.009     Template for different size blocks

Notes and References

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