Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 and University of Buffalo Foundation
- Abstract:
- Blueprints by Frank Lloyd Wright for a residence in Louisville, Kentucky, which was not built.
- Extent:
- 5 Linear Feet and 6 blueprints
- Language:
- Collection material in English.
- Preferred citation:
[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 22.4, Blueprints of the W.W. Davies residence, Louisville, Kentucky, undated, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo.
See the Special Collections' preferred citations instructions for additional information.
Background
- Scope and Content:
Although these plans are identified as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Davies project is not listed in the standard works on Wright nor was it known to Wright experts consulted by Mr. John D. Randall at the time the plans were acquired by the State University of New York at Buffalo. The house was not built.
The identification of the plans rests on the title block of the rendering of the front view of the house (see appended list). Unfortunately none of the plans are dated.
The exact location of the proposed structure is also unknown. The street plans show an area bounded by Cherokee Parkway and Transit Avenue which merge to form Long Avenue which is intersected by Spring Street. The plans also show a number of minor side streets and Beargrass Creek.
Several of the plans are marked in red crayon "164" or "Davies 164."
- Biographical / Historical:
Mr. W.W. Davies seems to have been a lawyer who was a partner of Judge
Robert Bingham in Louisville and moved to New York in the 1920's.
- Acquisition information:
These blueprints were purchased for the University by the University
of Buffalo Foundation from Mr. Carl Sperl of West Seneca, New York and
deposited in the University Archives by Mr. John D. Randall, Office of
Facilities Planning, September 17, 1976.
- Processing information:
Processed by University Archives staff.
- Arrangement:
Blueprints are arranged in original order by plan view. Stored in Map Case 1.15.
- Accruals:
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Blueprints of the W.W. Davies residence, Louisville, Kentucky,
undated, are open for research.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors,
or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written
permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before
publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be
copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise
specified.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Description and dates], Box/folder number, MS 22.4, Blueprints of the W.W. Davies residence, Louisville, Kentucky, undated, University Archives, State University of New York at Buffalo.
See the Special Collections' preferred citations instructions for additional information.
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
- CONTACT:
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716-645-2916lib-archives@buffalo.edu