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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


Unity Temple [Oak Park, Illinois] (1905)

Drawing: Perspective and partial plan in black and white

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0611.007

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: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; some blue foliage, on opaque cream-colored paper, Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962).
Drawing measurements: 36" x 23"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Klumb, Henry

Notes and comments: "Signed FLLW on embossed red and white square pasted to lower right; lettered date, 1908." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 1962)

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 148, page 238] in Siry, Joseph M., Unity Temple: Frank Lloyd Wright and Architecture for Liberal Religion (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 30] 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.