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TYPE OF OCCUPANCY

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


Yahara River Boathouse, project [Madison, Wisconsin] (1905)

Drawing: Perspective showing the pilings under the center portion of the

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0211.003

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: Hitchcock, Henry Russell.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; mounted to board (Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)).
Drawing measurements: 22 x 7"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 4.10, page 41] in Sprague, Paul E. (editor), Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison: Eight Decades of Artistic and Social Interaction (Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin, 1990).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 6] 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.

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 155, page 176] in Kruty, Paul, Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens (Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1998).