Marc Rochkind

Frank Lloyd Wright: Historic American Buildings Survey, Volume 1 Marc Rochkind

Publisher Marketing: The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was started in 1933 as one of the New Deal make-work programs, to employ jobless architects, draftspeople, and photographers. Its purpose is to document the nation's architectural heritage, especially those buildings that are in danger of ruin or deliberate destruction. Today, the HABS is part of the National Park Service and its repository is in the Library of Congress, much of which is available online at loc.gov. Of the tens of thousands HABS buildings, I found 44 Frank Lloyd Wright designs that have been digitized. Each HABS survey includes photographs and/or drawings and/or a report. I've included here what the Library of Congress had-sometimes all three, sometimes two of the three, and sometimes just one. There might be a single photo or drawing, or, such as in the case of Florida Southern College (in volume two), over a hundred. While all of the documents in these books are on the Library of Congress website, they're inconvenient to access. It's time consuming to download the drawings as PDFs, which is what you have to do if you want to see their detail. The reports are separate PDFs, too. But I've done all that for you, and even turned the drawings on their side so that they fill the page. None of the text in these books other than the introduction is from me. The photo captions are verbatim from the Library of Congress, and all of the documents are shown without alteration, except that I adjusted the brightness and contrast of a few of the photos and converted the few color photos to B&W. No photos were cropped or straightened, and I've retained the negative edges. A few reports that have only one page that says "Photographs" or "Drawings" have been left out, as they contain no useful information. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 1 (this volume) American System-Built Homes Auldbrass Emil Bach House Barnsdall Park Barnsdall Park - Hollyhock House Barnsdall Park - Residence A Beth Sholom Synagogue F. C. Bogk House Patricia Boulter House E. E. Boynton House B. Harley Bradley House Broad Margin James Charnley House Avery Coonley House Susan Lawrence Dana House Ennis House Fallingwater CONTENTS OF VOLUME 2 Florida Southern College Francis Apartments Samuel Freeman House A. Glasner House Isaac N. Hagan House R. Heath House Isidore Heller House F. B. Henderson House Johnson Wax Corporation Building Lindholm Oil Company Service Station Darwin D. Martin House William E. Martin House Meyer S. May House V. C. Morris Store Park Inn & City National Bank Rose Pauson House Price Tower Ravine Bluffs Development Bridge CONTENTS OF VOLUME 3 Frederick C. Robie House Rookery Building Pope-Leighey House Oscar Steffens House Storer House Albert W. Sullivan House Louis H. Sullivan Summer House Suntop Houses Taliesin - Tan-Y-Deri Unity Temple Lowell Walter House William H. Winslow House Wright Home & Studio Reverend Jessie R. Ziegler House You can download a free sample (F. C. Bogk House) at basepath.com/Wright.