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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.

Frank Lloyd Wright Project Drawing Detail


Resort Development for Huntington Hartford, scheme 1, project [Hollywood, California] (1947)

Drawing: Site plan, Taschen .024

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4721.001

Note: Drawing number assignments shown without question marks are compliant with the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives drawing inventory as of 2011. Drawing number assignments with question marks may represent attempts by John Geiger to order chronologically Wright project drawings which appeared in publications or are held in other collections within the master sequence of the Wright Archives inventory.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis

Notes and comments: Howe also claims this drawing on his Kaufnamm list, but I give it to Besinger, as he is seldom wrong. John W. Geiger 04/21/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 130] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 270, page 148] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1942-1950 (Volume 7) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 58] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).