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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT PROJECT DRAWINGS

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: Cross section

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 5313.006

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: Working Drawings.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper, unspecified; colored pencil; brown ink.
Drawing measurements: 36 1/8 x 28 3/4"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Besinger, Curtis

Notes and comments: (a) Besinger doesn't claim this drawing on his list because this drawing was never published untill 1994, subsequent to his list. John W. Geiger 09/08/00

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a color illustration [Figure or plate 372, page 210] in Riley, Terence and Reed, Peter (editors), Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994).