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Frank Lloyd Wright commissions

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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

Resort Development for Huntington Hartford, scheme 2, project [Hollywood, California] (1948)

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: Hartford, Huntington.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Cottage Group Center.

Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Hotel/Motel.

Principal building materials: Not assigned.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 9.

Drawing Number and Description

4837.001     Conceptual sketch by Wright
4837.036     Floor plan at level 575
4837.039     Floor plan at level 605
4837.040     Floor plan at level 615
4837.041     Cross sections, 6
4837.045     Aerial perspevtive
4837.046     Perspective
4837.047     Perspective

Notes and References

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