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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


Sports Club and Play Resort for Huntington Hartford, project [Hollywood, California] (1947)

Drawing: Cross section; development of .008

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 4731.022

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: 39" x 24"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Howe, John

Notes and comments: Howe does not claim authorship for this drawing but is is his drafting. He claims authorship for the two succeeding drawings for the Bulbulian house which are not his drawing. A mistake. John W. Geiger 05/13/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 127] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1943-1959 (Volume 3) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009).

Appears as a color illustration [page 277] in Cleary, Richard (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward (New York: Skira/ Rizzoli, 2009).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 284, page 155] 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 [Figure or plate 278] in Drexler, Arthur, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962). Note by John Geiger: Catalog to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) exhibition.