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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

House for Mr. and Mrs. C. Thaxter Shaw, project [Montreal, Quebec, Canada] (1906)

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: Shaw, C. Thaxter.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Stone.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 7.

Drawing Number and Description

0617.001     Perspective
0617.003     Site plan
0617.004     Longitudinal Section

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.

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.

Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: 12/1/1906.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: (a) I have never taken the time to try to understand this opus. It is just about everything carries to the extreme. Geiger 04/04/10.

This commission is referenced and/or illustrated in the following publications:

Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-513-3].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Protetch, Max. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright: 5 May through 6 June, 1987. New York: Max Protech Gallery.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Verlegt bei Ernest Wasmuth A. G..
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Buildings, Plans and Designs. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0790979667].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings and Plans of Frank Lloyd Wright, The Early Period (1893-1909). New York: Dover Publications, Inc.. [ISBN: 0-486-24457-1].