Type of Occupancy Category HOUSING/Residential/Single Family
House for Tom Conklin, project [New Ulm, Minnesota] (1950)
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: Conklin, Tom.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.
Occupancy form or use: HOUSING/Residential/Single Family.
Principal building materials: Not assigned.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 2.
Drawing Number and Description
Notes And References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) Same awkward relationship of living room boundries, roof and terrace. Geiger 12/15/09.
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: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3). Cologne, Germany: Taschen. [ISBN: 978-8228-5770-0].