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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


Apartment Tower for William Norman Guthrie, "St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie", project [New York, New York] (1928)

Drawing: Aerial perspective of three apartment towers and the church

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 2905.004

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: Reprographic print, Blueprint.
Drawing measurements: 15" x 20"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: "One eighteen and two fourteen story residentrial towers are shown grouped around the Church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, New York from which the project takes its name." Arthur Drexler, The Drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: Horizon Press, 196

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 120] 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 152, page 89] 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 228, page 169] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph Preliminary Studies, 1917-1932 (Volume 10) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a color illustration [page 190] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete Works 1917-1942 (Volume 2) (Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010).