Type of Occupancy Category DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES/Item
Design of Plaster Freize at McVicker's Theater for Louis Sullivan [Chicago, Illinois] (1883)
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: McVickers Theater.
Sobriquet or alternative place name: None.
Design Status (as of 2011): Unbuilt.
Occupancy form or use: DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES/Item.
Principal building materials: Not assigned.
Number of drawings for this project detailed in the database: 1.
Drawing Number and Description
Notes And References
Comments by John Geiger and/or sources of attribution (a) The "71" for year has to be wrong, Wright was 4 years old in 1871. 1891 is probably correct. Wright 24 years old in that year and was working for Sullivan. Geiger 01/24/02.
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:
Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: Collected Writings Volume 3 1931-1939. New York: Rizzoli. [ISBN: 0-8478-1699-O].