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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/Single Family

House for Burton J. Westcott [Springfield, Ohio] (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.

Name of client: Westcott, Burton J..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: WOOD/Wood frame, stucco.

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

Drawing Number and Description

0712.??1     Perspective (study) and perspective of Ullman house for ABEFLW 19
0712.001     Floor plan and Elevation, early study by Wright
0712.029     First floor plan
0712.030     Second floor plan
0712.031     Elevations
0712.032     Elevations
0712.033     Cross sections
0712.037     Floor plan of upper level of garage and pergola
0712.038     Elevations of garage and pergola
0712.039     Elevations and cross section of garage
0712.042     Leaded glass at entry
0712.046     Leaded glass ceiling light
0712.051     Aerial perspective (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0712.052     Two floor plans (in Ausgefurte Bauten, 1910)
0712.056     Leaded glass book case doors

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.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Roof pattern type: 0203 Rectangle/applied

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 None recorded.