Project Information
House for Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Hagan, "Kentuck Knob" [Chalkhill, Pennsylvania] (1954)
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: Hagan, I. N..
Sobriquet or alternative place name: Kentuck Knob.
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: 6.
Drawing Number and Description
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.
Davison, Allen Lape
Preliminary working drawings coordinator: Davison, Allen Lape
Working drawings coordinator: Davison, Allen Lape
Structural engineering: Peters, William Wesley
Construction supervision: Davison, Allen Lape
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: 2/1/1954.
Preliminary drawings date: 2/1/1954.
Working drawings date: 6/21/1954.
Construction finished: 2/6/1954.
Notes and References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution: See note above..
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:
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2004, Vol. 15, No. 4. Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.
Hoffman, Donald. Frank Lloyd Wright''s House on Kentuck Kno. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Uiversity of Pittsburgh Press. [ISBN: 0-8229-4119-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-519-2].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-8228-5770-0].