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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT COMMISSIONS

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Landscape Design

One of the most encompassing approaches by John Geiger to the study of Frank Lloyd Wright commissions was the creation of 10 data tables that provided places to record project coordinator, preliminary drawing coordinator, working drawings coordinator, specifications writer, structural engineer, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, landscape design, supervising apprentice during construction, and building contractor. Then, drawings for the commission were listed. While such level of detail was usually not available to Geiger, this search represents a refined model for the study of the design and building process that other researchers may want to carry forward. Only Wright commissions having information recorded for these categories of contribution are returned in this search, showing a total of 299 records.

Project Information

House 1 for Francis W. and Mary Little [Peoria, Illinois] (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.

Name of client: Little, Francis W. and Mary.

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.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 13.

Drawing Number and Description

0009.??1     Perspective and first and second floor plans (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0009.??2     First floor plan of house and stable probably for Hitchcock
0009.006     Site plan
0009.007     Blank
0009.008     First floor plan
0009.009     Second floor plan
0009.011     Elevations
0009.012     Elevations
0009.014     Window and sash details
0009.015     Cross sections
0009.018     Landscape plan
0009.021     Leaded glass window
0009.029     Dining room ceiling light
Landscape design: Griffin, Walter Burley

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.

Working drawings date: 10/14/1900.

Notes and References

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