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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


House for Edith Carlson, "Below Zero", project [Superior, Wisconsin] (1939)

Drawing: Floor plan and one elevation, early and rough

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3804.006

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.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.

Notes and comments: (a) Lots of work by FLLW on this house. The feature is the right angle ridge and unequal sloped roof surfaces. Reminiscent of the Taliesin West drafting room roof structure being done about the same time. John W. Geiger 2/21/98

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [page 386] 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 294, page 202] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).