Type of Occupancy Category HOUSING/Residential/Single Family
House for Mr. and Mrs. George Berdan, project [Ludington, Michigan] (1945)
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: Berdan, George.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.
Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.
Principal building materials: MASONRY/Brick, board and batten.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 3.
Drawing Number and Description
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. Sources were often footnoted by an alphanumeric system, but the references are sometimes missing from the locations where they were intended to be recorded; the relationship between footnote letter or numeral and reference is absent. In order to retain the presence of available information, citations are here shown grouped together in one comment field. Some understanding of the intended source may be discovered in remaining notes or frequently cited publications which appear in the comment field. The relevance of references provided by John Geiger can often be recovered through examination of the publications used in his research.See the list of principal bibliographical sources used for this purpose.
Date recorded by John Geiger for chronological sorting: January 1, 1945.
Notes And References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) Derivative of Ellinwood, #4102. Geiger 02/21/98. Kruty Paul, and Sprague, Paul E. Marion Mahony and Millikin Place, Creating a Prairie School Masterpiece, with the Help of Frank Lloyd Wright, Herman Von Holst and Walter Burley Griffin (Walter Burl.
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:
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7). Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita. [ISBN: 4-87140-518-4].
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-8228-5770-0].