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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


Rhododendron Chapel for Edgar J. Kaufman, Sr., project [Bear Run, Pennsylvania] (1952)

Drawing: Plan and elevation

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5308.??1

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.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Howe collection).

Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.

Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.

Drawing measurements: 28 x 35 1/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: Yes.
Principal delineation attributed to: Wright, Frank Lloyd

Notes and comments: Drawing from Jack Howe collection. John W. Geiger 04/22/96

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 371, page 309] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 131] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).