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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


Beth Sholom Synagogue [Elkins Park, Pennsylvania] (1954)

Drawing: Tripod beam details

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5313.064

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.
Sheet Number: 7
Scale: 3/8" = 1' - 0".
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 304, page 156] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1951-1959 (Volume 8) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1988).