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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 Reconstruction for Mr. and Mrs. Nathan G. Moore [Oak Park, Illinois] (1923)

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: Moore, Nathan G..

Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.

Design Status (as of 2011): Executed.

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

Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick.

Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 10.

Drawing Number and Description

2303.010     South (garden) elevation
2303.011     North (entrance) elevation
2303.012     East and West (main gable) elevations
2303.014     First floor plan
2303.015     Second floor plan
2303.016     Attic floor plan
2303.017     Cross section through entrance hall
2303.019     Interior elevations
2303.020     Dormer window block details
2303.118     Roof framing plan

Notes And References

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