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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


House, Stable, and Gardener's Cottage for Mr. and Mrs. Avery Coonley [Riverside, Illinois] (1908)

Drawing: Tile frieze, used design, line drawing

Frank Lloyd Wright Archives Drawing Inventory Number: 0803.007

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.
Decorative Arts category: Decorative Accessories/Ornament/Mosaic.

Notes and comments: (a) Line drawing without color but a good layout for the design. John W. Geiger 03/31/05.

Bibliographic Citations

Appears as a black-and-white illustration [page 223] in Wright, Frank Lloyd, American Architecture (New York: Bramhall House, 1955).

Appears as a color illustration [page 165] in Kaufmann, Jr., Edgar, Frank Lloyd Wright: Drawings for a Living Architecture (New York: Horizon Press, 1959).