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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

John Geiger applied 72 categories of purpose to 1,125 Frank Lloyd Wright commissions. Classifications include 18 types of housing, 17 forms of civic buildings including churches, 29 terms for commercial structures, and 7 kinds of site planning, with other categories for decorative accessories, farm buildings, and site improvements. The categories of "Automobile" and "Patent" have been added to include in the results several types of projects not categorized by Geiger.

Type of Occupancy Category HOUSING/Residential/Cottage/cabin

Summer Lodge for E. H. Pitkin [Sapper Island, Desbarats, Ontario, Canada] (1900)

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.

Name of client: Pitkin, E. H..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Cottage/cabin.

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, board and batten.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 8.

Drawing Number and Description

0005.??1     Perspective-not published but delineator identified
0005.002     Floor plan first floor
0005.004     Lateral cross section
0005.005     Longitudinal cross section
0005.006     North elevation
0005.007     South elevation
0005.008     West elevation
0005.009     East elevation

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.

Long, Birch Burdette

Notes And References

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