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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 COMMERCIAL/Restaurant/Bar/Cabaret

Midway Gardens for Edward Carson Waller and Oscar Friedman, scheme 2 [Chicago, Illinois] (1913)

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: Waller, Edward Carson and Friedman, Oscar.

Sobriquet or alternative place name: Midway Gardens.

Design Status (as of 2011): Demolished.

Occupancy form or use: COMMERCIAL/Restaurant/Bar/Cabaret.

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick, concrete.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 82.

Drawing Number and Description

1401.??5     Light fixture, standing
1401.005     Mural
1401.005     Sprites elevations
1401.008     Mural "City by The Sea"
1401.009     Elevations of three statues
1401.011     Study of sprite sculpture
1401.015     Leaded glass windows, study
1401.015     Floor and site plan
1401.023     Elevation form the west
1401.030     Basement plan
1401.031     First floor plan
1401.032     Mezzanine floor plan
1401.033     Balcony plan
1401.034     Roof plan
1401.035     Elevation from Grove Avenue
1401.036     Section elevation
1401.037     Elevation in courtyard
1401.074     Sprite sculpture studies
1401.075     Sprite sculpture studies
1401.082     Light fixture
1401.090     Cross section
1401.091     Section/elevation
1401.095     Bronze floor plate
1401.096     Cross seectiion
1401.098     Cross section early study
1401.101     Longitudinal section
1401.105     Floor plan, very early
1401.109     Orchestra shell details
1401.118     Block and brick ormanent
1401.179     Perspective of courtyard

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.

Brodelle, Emil
Fritz, Sr., Herbert
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Specifications writer: Mueller, Paul F. P.

Notes And References

Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (1) See drawing 1401.007 signed and dated 1913. Geiger 05/18/96 (a) See Kruty, Paul. Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens (University of Illinois Press, 1998) for an excellent book on this building. Geiger 03/03/04 (2) Huxtable, .

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:

Aguar, Charles E. and Berdeanna. Wrightscapes: Frank Lloyd Wright''s Landscape Designs. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Alofsin, Anthony. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 A Study of Influence. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago. [ISBN: 0-226-01366-0].
Cleary, Richard (editor). Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. New York: Skira/ Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-0-8478-3262-0].
Drexler, Arthur. The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Horizon Press. [ISBN: 0-8180-0019-8].
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.
Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar. Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture. New York: Horizon Press.
Kruty, Paul. Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. [ISBN: 0-252-02366-8].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1715-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives. New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc.. [ISBN: 0-8108-1773-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 (Volume 3). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-515-X].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1889-1916 (Volume 9). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-520-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph, In His Renderings 1887-1959 (Volume 12). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-523-0].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright, The Heroic Years: 1920-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 978-8478-3174-6].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-3-8365-0926-8].
Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors). Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. [ISBN: 0-87070-642-X].
Sloan, Julie L.. Light Screens: The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-2306-7].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 1, 1894-1930. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1546-3].
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 2, 1930-1932. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1548-X].