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Supervising Apprentice

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

Hillside Home School for Jane and Ellen Lloyd Jones [Spring Green, Wisconsin] (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: Jones, Ellen Lloyd and Jane Lloyd.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Hillside.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: CIVIC/Education.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Stone, plaster.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 15.

Drawing Number and Description

0216.??1     Aerial perspective from the southeast (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910, plate Xa)
0216.??2     Main floor plan (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910, plate Xb).
0216.??3     Main level floor plan probably for In the Nature of Materials
0216.001     Foundation plan
0216.002     Lower level plan
0216.003     Assembly room and gymnasium balcony floor plan
0216.004     Foundation and floor plan of Art/Science and balcony floor plan Ass
0216.005     South elevation
0216.006     North elevation
0216.007     East elevation and cross section of Art/Science
0216.008     West elevation and cross section of Art/Science
0216.009     Longitudiional cross section of main building
0216.010     Cross section through building and throught the classroom link
0216.011     Longitudinal section through the Gymnasium and Art/Science rooms
0216.012     Wall sections
Project Coordinator: Griffin, Walter Burley
Construction supervision: Griffin, Walter Burley

Roof pattern type: 0302 Cruciform/Rectangle/one level

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify types of roof pattern from an aerial perspective found Frank Lloyd Wright projects.These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [ROOFPATTERNTYPE] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE, and may be searched.

Notes and References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: Marty #2, p. 33.

Note: The information shown above is collected from a series of data table columns intended originally to record not only comments or notes, but also to cite sources of attribution for dates assigned to the various stages of drawing preparation in the design process. As with any primary archival source material, the references and sources of attribution shown here should be consulted where possible to affirm the data provided.

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

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell. In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce.
Lipman, Jonathan, and Levine, Neil. The Wright State: Frank Lloyd Wright In Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum.
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1902-1906 (Volume 2). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-513-3].
Siry, Joseph M.. Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. [ISBN: 0-521-49542-3].
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].