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Frank Lloyd Wright produced projects for sites located in 48 American states and 10 foreign countries. Some unbuilt projects, graphics designs, and publications do not have locations given in the archival record and are absent in this search.

Project Information

House for Mr. and Mrs. Ward Winfield Willits [Highland Park, Illinois] (1902)

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: Willits, Ward Winfield.

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: 18.

Drawing Number and Description

0208.??1     Perpsective and first and second floor plans (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0208.??2     Ground floor plan for In the Nature of Materials
0208.??3     Second floor plan for In the Nature of Materials
0208.001     Perspective from street
0208.002     Foundation and basement plan
0208.003     First floor plan
0208.004     Second floor plan, gutter and downspout detail
0208.005     Front and rear elevations
0208.006     Two side elevations and reflected ceiling of porte cochere
0208.007     Wall sections, window detils, and interior elevations pantry
0208.008     Interior elevations of living room and entry hall
0208.010     Stable, first floor plan
0208.011     Stable second floor plan
0208.012     Stable elevations
0208.013     Stable, elevations
0208.014     Stable, Longitudinal section, details and wall details
0208.015     Site plan
0208.018     site and preliminary landsape plan

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.

Griffin, Walter Burley
Howe, John
Mahony, Marion
Landscape design: Griffin, Walter Burley
Construction supervision: Griffin, Walter Burley

Plan type: Ladies Home Journal (1901).

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of floor plans found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects to categorize types of roof structure. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [PLANTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Roof type: CrFrm2Level.

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.