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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


Farm Cottage for Edgar J. Kaufmann, Sr., project [Bear Run, Pennsylvania] (1941)

Drawing: Floor plan

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 3711.001

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/Conceptual.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with colored pencil.
Drawing measurements: 36 x 29"
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Date Range
Date created: circa 1941 (Cleary).
Revision Dates: Not recorded.

Note: A variety of dates are provided for some drawings. These can include fuzzy or circa dating information, and a series of up to 5 dates of revision to the drawing. Sometimes a source of attribution for the dates is indicated, most often given as the last name of an author to indicate a publication.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 417, page 285] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1936-1941 (Volume 6) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1986).

Appears as a color illustration [page 453] 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 [page 127] in Cleary, Richard, Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright (Seattle, Washington: Universitry of Washington Press, 1999).