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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


City National Bank and Hotel [Mason City, Iowa] (1909)

Drawing: Desk elevations

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0902.009

Note: Records a category devised by Geiger to classify the types of decorative arts designs found in Frank Lloyd Wright projects. These terms were applied consistently through a choice list on Column [DECORATIVE ARTS] in Table MMTFDRAWINGS FILE.

Drawing held by: Frank Lloyd Wright Archives.
Drawing Type: Preliminary/Presentation.
Scale: Not given.
Media: Paper: Tracing paper, vellum with graphite pencil.
Drawing measurements: Not recorded.
Drawing signed by Frank Lloyd Wright: No.
Principal delineation attributed to: Drummond, William
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Furniture, Loose/Desk/wood.

Notes and comments: (a) See Arris, Kruty, p. 25 for a discussion of this drawing. John W. Geiger 01/18/09

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 5, page 26] in Kruty, Paul, At Work in the Oak Park Studio (Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2003). Note by John Geiger: Arris, V. 14, 2003, Journal of the South Ea

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [Figure or plate 239, page 122] in Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, Frank Lloyd Wright Monograph 1907-1913 (Volume 3) (Tokyo: A. D. A. Edita, 1987).