Frank Lloyd Wright: Related Archival Holdings at Avery
Avery Library’s Drawings & Archives has the world's largest collection of archival holdings on Frank Lloyd Wright.
In addition to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archive, which was acquired in 2012, Drawings & Archives has historically collected archives documenting the life and work of Frank Lloyd Wright and other related figures such Louis Sullivan, Edgar Kaufmann, and Edgar Tafel among others.
Additional Wright Archives at Avery
Frank Lloyd Wright architectural drawings and papers, circa 1880-1959
This collection of approximately 1,000 architectural drawings, and related correspondence, clippings, announcements, specifications, legal documents, and photographs, was acquired through various gifts to Avery, including donations from Wright's son John Lloyd Wright (1892-1972).
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Frank Lloyd Wright Miscellanea, circa 1905-1995 (bulk 1940s-1960s)
The Frank Lloyd Wright ephemera collection is composed of transcripts of speeches, interviews, magazine and newspaper clippings by and about the world-famous architect. The collection also includes printed materials related to various Frank Lloyd Wright-themed exhibitions, associations, building and house tours, restoration efforts and ephemera gleaned from disparate sources.
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Frank Lloyd Wright collection of Louis Henry Sullivan drawings
The bulk of these architectural drawings by Louis Henry Sullivan (1856-1924) date from circa 1883-1910, when Sullivan was a partner with Dankmar Adler in the architectural firm Adler and Sullivan. Sullivan gave these drawings to Wright before his death. Many of the drawings have been annotated by Wright.
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Wright-Related Archives at Avery
Hugh Ferriss architectural drawings and papers, circa 1906-1980 (bulk circa 1918-1960)
The Hugh Ferriss (1889-1962) collection includes architectural renderings of buildings by various architects, including three Frank Lloyd Wright projects: Fallingwater in Bear Run, Pennsylvania, Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona, and the Johnson Wax Administration Building in Racine, Wisconsin.
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Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin architectural drawings, 1909-1937
Walter Burley Griffin was an architect and landscape architect. Marion Mahony Griffin (1871-1962) was an architect who worked mainly as an architectural renderer. In1894, she became the first women to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in architecture. Both had previously worked for Frank Lloyd Wright at his studio in Oak Park, Illinois.
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Douglas Putnam Haskell papers, 1866-1979 (bulk 1949-1964)
Douglas Haskell (1899-1979) was an editor, critic, and writer on architectural subjects. He was an associate editor for Architectural Record from 1929-1930, architecture critic for The Nation from 1930-1942, associate editor again of Architectural Record from 1943-1949, and editor of Architectural Forum from 1949 until his retirement in 1964 at the age of sixty-five. Haskell began his career as one of the few American proponents of modern architecture during the 1920s, and was a friend and colleague of Clarence Stein, Henry Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The collection includes material regarding Douglas Haskell's professional and personal relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Henry-Russell Hitchcock papers, circa 1500-1970, (bulk circa 1800-1970)
Henry-Russell Hitchcock (1903-1987) was an architectural historian. The collection is made up of architectural drawings, specifications, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, and ephemera collected by Hitchcock, and relating to the work of architects Henry Hobson Richardson and Frank Lloyd Wright. The collection includes a letter from 1940, from Wright to Hitchcock, suggesting the writing of In the Nature of Materials.
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Edgar J. Kaufmann papers on Fallingwater, 1909-1976 (bulk 1932-1955)
The Edgar J. Kaufmann papers on Fallingwater consist of correspondence, photographs (including construction photographs), project records, architectural drawings, legal documents, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and exhibition materials related to architectural projects for Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885-1955) by Frank Lloyd Wright. The bulk of the material relates to Kaufmann's home, Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. Collection Record | Finding Aid
Mark L. Peisch correspondence and papers, 1903-1997
Mark Lyons Peisch (b. 1921) was an undergraduate student at Dartmouth (class of 1944) when he was introduced by Professor Hugh Morrison, noted scholar of Louis Sullivan, to the work of Chicago School architects Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin. The Griffins became the subject of his doctoral research at Columbia University where he counted as his mentors such noted historians and scholars as William Bell Dinsmoor, Talbot Hamlin, Adolf Placzek, Jacques Barzun, Meyer Schapiro, and Rudolph Wittkower. Peisch was awarded his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1959 with the completion of his dissertation "The Chicago School and Walter Burley Griffin, 1893-1914: Growth and Dissemination of an Architectural Movement and a Representative Figure" which was published in 1964 by Columbia University Press and Random House as "The Chicago School of Architecture: Early Followers of Sullivan and Wright."
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Paton Price papers on Frank Lloyd Wright's New Theater for Hartford, CT, 1948-1958
The material spans the years 1948 to 1958 and documents Paton Price's relationship with Frank Lloyd Wright through the course of planning the New Theater. The collection consists of letters, telegrams, publicity material, photographs, and a large perspective view of the Theater signed by Wright. Collection Record | Finding Aid
Edgar Tafel architectural records and papers, 1919-2005
The Edgar J. Kaufmann papers on Fallingwater consist of correspondence, photographs (including construction photographs), project records, architectural drawings, legal documents, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and exhibition materials related to architectural projects for Edgar J. Kaufmann (1885-1955) by Frank Lloyd Wright. The bulk of the material relates to Kaufmann's home, Fallingwater, at Bear Run, Pennsylvania. Collection Record | Finding Aid | Blog
Stuart A. Weiner photographs and papers, circa 1949-1957
This collection primarily contains photographic prints, including contact sheets, depicting Frank Lloyd Wright, Iovanna Lloyd Wright, the apprentices, and buildings at Taliesin West in the 1950s, made by Stuart Weiner.
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