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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


Motor Inn for Dr. Alexander Chandler, "San Marcos Water Gardens", project [Chandler, Arizona] (1929)

Drawing: Perspective of three cabins

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2705.003

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: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Study.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 26" x 7"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 176, page 166] in Sweeney, Robert L., Wright in Hollywood: Visions of a New Architecture (Princeton, New Jersey: MIT Press, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 96] 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 color illustration [Figure or plate 117, page 70] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1924-1935 (Volume 5) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1985).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 291] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 1978).

Appears as a color illustration [page 182] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 291] in Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, In the Nature of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1942).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 7] in Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank Lloyd Wright Quarterly: 2005, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Phoenix, Arizona: Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, 2005).

Appears as a color illustration [page 190] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Drawings: Masterworks from the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives (New York: Harry H. Abrams Inc., 1990).