All-Wright Site - Frank Lloyd Wright Building Guide

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Search for books on Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, and also for books on any other topic (and music and more) Search Shortcut Select a state or country and click the Go! button to see the Frank Lloyd Wright listings for that state. Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Iraq You can also click here to go to a map. Summary: This page contains listings for over 420 Frank Lloyd Wright buildings in more than 37 states/locations; hundreds of web sites indexed with even more images available for viewing. Recommended book: A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion , Entries on every Wright building known at the time of publication. Includes floor plans and photographs. Building Guide Contents: [Map] [Introduction] [Credits] [Other Sites] [List of States/Etc.] [Pages for Buildings] [Email] [All Wright Site main page] Introduction The USA is like a vast openair museum of Frank Lloyd Wright's art, with hundreds of examples found from coast to coast. This Web site attempts to catalog all in one place (organized by state/country and by building) images, text, and web pages pertaining to Frank Lloyd Wright's work. See the Frank Lloyd Wright Tourist Page for information on places open to the public, and see the AllWright Site Links Page for a list of links to generalinterest and other categories of Frank Lloyd Wright links. NonWright buildings of interest, and neverbuilt designs are also Please send any comments, additions or corrections to the webmaster at the email address on the mail page . Be sure to let me know of Wright building sites and images not listed here, and to let me know of links on the pages that have expired or moved. Assistance is greatly appreciated in identifying expired and changed links, as there are hundreds to keep track of. What you will find here: Buildings All of Frank Lloyd Wright's total built work (more than 420 buildings) is represented, including both the extant (still standing) and demolished buildings. Additionally, several of Mr. Wright's unbuilt designs are listed in the appropriate state/location, and there are also listings for some buildings of interest designed by Mr. Wright's colleagues, students, or immitators. Some of the examples of the variety of Wright's buildings (in several different criteria) are outlined below: Accessibility/Availability: Private residences not available for public intrusion Museums and Showplaces Places of Business (or other buildings used for their intended purpose) Condition: Standing and in excellent condition (Guggenheim Museum ) Demolished (Larkin building ) Still standing but victim to natural disaster or savage remodeling Purpose:

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Search for books on FrankLloyd Wright buildings,

and also for books on any other topic(and music and more)

Search

ShortcutSelect a state orcountry and click

the Go! button to seethe Frank Lloyd Wrightlistings for that state.Virginia

WashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinIraq

You can also click here

to go to a map.

Summary:This page contains listings for over 420 Frank Lloyd Wrightbuildings in more than 37 states/locations; hundreds of websites indexed with even more images available for viewing. Recommended book: A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion,Entries on every Wright building known at the time ofpublication. Includes floor plans and photographs.

Building Guide Contents:

[Map] [Introduction] [Credits][Other Sites] [List ofStates/Etc.] [Pages for

Buildings] [Email] [AllWright Site main page]

IntroductionThe USA is like a vast openair museum of Frank Lloyd Wright'sart, with hundreds of examples found from coast to coast. This Website attempts to catalog all in one place (organized by state/countryand by building) images, text, and web pages pertaining to FrankLloyd Wright's work. See the Frank Lloyd Wright Tourist Page forinformation on places open to the public, and see the AllWright SiteLinks Page for a list of links to generalinterest and other categoriesof Frank Lloyd Wright links. NonWright buildings of interest, andneverbuilt designs are also Please send any comments, additions orcorrections to the webmaster at the email address on the mail page. Be sure to let me know of Wrightbuilding sites and images not listed here, and to let me know of links on the pages that have expired ormoved. Assistance is greatly appreciated in identifying expired and changed links, as there arehundreds to keep track of.

What you will find here: BuildingsAll of Frank Lloyd Wright's total built work (more than 420 buildings) is represented, including boththe extant (still standing) and demolished buildings. Additionally, several of Mr. Wright's unbuiltdesigns are listed in the appropriate state/location, and there are also listings for some buildings ofinterest designed by Mr. Wright's colleagues, students, or immitators. Some of the examples of thevariety of Wright's buildings (in several different criteria) are outlined below:

Accessibility/Availability:Private residences not available for public intrusionMuseums and ShowplacesPlaces of Business (or other buildings used for their intended purpose)

Condition:Standing and in excellent condition (Guggenheim Museum)Demolished (Larkin building)Still standing but victim to natural disaster or savage remodeling

Purpose:

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Private Residences (the vast majority ofWright's work)OfficesBanks, churches, schools, governmentofficesOther: fountains, bridges, windmill (seenbelow and to the right), etc.

The architect's involvement:Work done by Mr. Wright while withother firms (Charnley residence)Collaborations with other architects (Arizona Biltmore)Works designed and with contruction supervised in great detail by Mr. Wright (Johnson Waxoffices and the Imperial Hotel in Japan)Works designed with construction approved by but not supervised by Mr. Wright (AmbergHouse)Works designed by Wright but constructed by the client as intended ("Usonian Automatics"such as the Arthur Pieper house)Works originally designed by FLLW but constructed after his death, sometimes in differentsites that the originally intended site (such as the Hawaii buildings), and sometimes withsignificant modification or input or redesign from other architects (Monona Terrace CivicCenter and Kaden Tower)

StylesShinglestyle (FLLW Home and Studio and Unity Chapel)"Chicago School" (Charnley residence)Prairie Style (Robie House and Wingspread)Western concrete block (Millard and Arizona Biltmore Hotel)Usonian (Turkel House)Other (Guggenheim Museum)

Documentation:Welldocumented buildingsBuildings about which little is known (usually structures longdemolished)Recent discoveries which are in scholarly disputeFrank Lloyd Wright buildings yet to be discovered and documented (a few have been foundalready in the 1990's). None of these, of course, are documented in the Frank Lloyd WrightBuilding Guide.

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What you will find here: Type of InformationOther than the title graphics, there are few graphics on theBuilding Guide pages. However, hundreds of images(photographs, diagrams, and artwork) for the buildings areusually just a click or two away, either found inside the otherpages listed, as images to be directly accessed, or within themany buildingspecific web sites that are indexed here.

What you will find here: Content and OrganizationThis Building Guide consists of a separate page for every statein the USA, and for every country that has FLLW informationavailable for it. There are statespecific pages even for the statesthat have no Wright buildings: these pages will containinformation on other buildings of interest where available.Please see the map and the state list quick way to access each ofthese state and country specific pages. You will find the mostinformation on the pages with the most Wright buildings, suchas the Illinois and Wisconsin pages.

The remote links within the pages are "bulleted" after the name (and sometimes a brief description) ofthe building, with one bullet for each linked site. Many web pages found in the links contain severaldifferent building images. These are indexed once for each buiilding found within the linked page.The buildings in this page are organized by state, and within each state, ordered by the year thebuilding was built. A few of the listings here really have little or no Wright material (let aloneimages), but are sites related to Wright sites open to the public (such as the Currier Gallery whichmaintains and presents the Isadore Zimmerman house in Manchester, New Hampshire)

Additionally, most of the photo and image links are of Mr. Wright's buildings, with interiors andexterior elevations represented. However, the furniture, window glass, and other details were integralparts of his designs also, so links to furniture and other detail sites are included with the buildinglinks.

CreditsThis page would not have been possible without the dedication of the many dozens of people whohave created the web pages, entered the text, written the articles, and taken the photographs for thesites indexed here. It would also not have been possible without the work of Mr. Storrer and otherWright scholars who have researched and catalogued Mr. Wright's work. Several of the images areavailable only here at the AllWright Site. In most cases, you will find more information about theimage and who placed it on the web when you click on that particular link.

This page is not associated with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, the FrankLloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin Associated Architects, the FrankLloyd Wright Building Conservancy, or the estate of Frank Lloyd Wright, or anyother "official" organization (other than the courtesy of exchanging links andinformation). (Frank Lloyd Wright® and Taliesin® are registered trademarks of the Frank LloydWright Foundation.)

Other general guides to FLLW Buildings:

Book: A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion William Allin Storrer; Hardcover. The"Companion" is a hardcover with information on every one of Frank Lloyd Wright'sconstructed buildings, including photographs, exact locations, and floor plans. Click on thebook title to obtain it from Amazon.com. This is the definitive Wright reference book.Book: Thomas Heinz is putting out a series of "Frank Lloyd Wright Field out the sites. Pleasecheck for favorite booksellers for these books. The most recent one is available from

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Amazon.com if you click on the title: Frank Lloyd Wright Field Guide : MetroChicago Vol2 Thomas A. Heinz / Paperback / Published 1997.One out of every five FLLW buildings has been destroyed. The Frank Lloyd Wright BuildingConservancy is dedicated to preserving those that remain.Frank Lloyd Wright Tourist Page, which lists information on sites open to the public.See the AllWright Site Links Page for lists of dozens of other FLWrelated sites.

AllWright Site Frank Lloyd Wright Building GuideMap and Index of Building LocationsClick on a location on the following map to see the information for that location, or click here to skipto the list of states and other locations.

Index of Frank Lloyd Wright's Work, by State (or other category)* States that have complete listings of FLW buildings.

Eastern States:Connecticut*, Delaware*, Maryland*, Massachusetts*, New Hampshire*, New Jersey*, New York*,Pennsylvania* Southern States:*Alabama*, Florida*, Kentucky*, Mississippi*, S.Carolina*, Virginia* Great Lakes States:Illinois*, Indiana*, Michigan*, Minnesota*, Ohio*, Wisconsin* Central States:Iowa*, Kansas*, Missouri*, Nebraska*, Oklahoma, Texas* Western States:Arizona*, California*, Colorado*, Idaho* Montana, New Mexico*, Hawaii*, Utah*, Washington*,Wyoming* Other locations and buildings (outside the US):

Iraq, Japan, Canada*, Egypt, England. Other Pages for individual buildings:This Building Guide contains specific pages for some of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings. Thebuildings without their own pages are indexed in the Statespecific pages. Robie House, Taliesin (inWisconsin), Unitarian Meeting House, Hagan House, Moe House, Wynant House, Lindholm Station(Gas Station Page) A selection of links for some the most notable buildings:the Robie House, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,Fallingwater, Taliesin and Taliesin West (the rest of Mr. Wright' s most famous or notable works arealso found in the state/etc. listings as well)

Frank Lloyd Wright® and Taliesin® are registered trademarks of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.