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visionary architect
Frank Lloyd Wright
[1867-1959]
| Frank Lloyd Wright is possibly the most famous architect of the XXth Century. He designed over 1,000 structures over a career spanning five decades, and 450 were built. His influence continues in the work of his sons & grandsons, and in the Taliesin schools in Wisconsin & Arizona, as well as in university courses around the world. |  |
links
books about F.L. Wright
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Frank Lloyd Wright entry at Wikipedia
browse the Frank Lloyd Wright Store {returns 100+ titles} at Amazon
search on mis-spelled 'Frank Llyod Wright' {returns 60+ titles} at Amazon
Frank Lloyd Wright credits at Internet Movie Database
Official Links
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation [est. 1940]
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation 3-D Laboratory watch video [6:25] online at YouTube
Frank Lloyd Wright School
Taliesin® Preservation, Inc. in Spring Green, WI
Taliesin Architects [est. 1959]
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy [est. 1989]
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust [est. 1974]
Other Links
GreatBuildings F.L.W. webpage
CM's Frank Lloyd Wright fansite
Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, IL [1889-1909]
F.L.W. 'Amazing Americans' entry at Library of Congress
1997 Frank Lloyd Wright exhibit at Library of Congress
'Wright In Wisconsin' Heritage Tourism Program
Shining Brow Booksellers in Brookfield, WI
Jet Set Modern online magazine Issue #4: The All-Wright Double Issue
listed #76 on Atlantic Monthly's "100 Most Influential Americans" (12/2006)
Frank Lloyd Wright Timeline & List of Buildings at Planet Claire website
The Wright Legacy Group [est. 11/2020; private; 500+ members] on Facebook
Family & Friends
Frank Lincoln Wright was born in June 1867 in Richland Center, Wisconsin; he built many homes & buildings near Chicago, Illinois and then Madison, Wisconsin;
from 1937, he spent his winters at Taliesin West in sunny Scottsdale, Arizona; he died in Phoenix, Arizona at age 91 in April 1959.
first wife Catherine 'Kitty' Tobin Wright [] m. 1889; div. 1922)
FLW's son Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr. aka Lloyd Wright [1890-1978]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Wright
daughter-in-law Elaine B. Hyman Wright [] - m. 1917, divorced
daughter-in-law Helen Taggart Pole Wright [] - m. 1926
grandson architect Eric Lloyd Wright [b. 1929]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Lloyd_Wright
FLW's son John Lloyd Wright [1892-1972]
He was an architect and toy inventor, most notably Lincoln Logs (1916)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lloyd_Wright
authored "My Father who is on Earth" [1946] describing his childhood memories and his relationship with FLW
daughter-in-law #1 Jeanette Winter [] - m. 1914, divorced 1920
daughter-in-law #2 Hazel Josephine Lundin Wright [] - m. 1921, divorced 1942
they had one daughter and one son.
granddaughter Elizabeth Wright Ingraham [1922-2013] had one son & 3 daughters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Wright_Ingraham
http://www.cogreatwomen.org/project/elizabeth-wright-ingraham/
great-granddaughter Catherine Ingraham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Ingraham
daughter-in-law #3 Frances L. Gordon Welch Wright [] m. 1942
FLW's daughter Catherine Dorothy Wright Baxter [1894-1979]
son-in-law Kenneth Stuart Baxter [1893-1977]
granddaughter actress Anne Baxter [1923-85] /name/nm0000879/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Baxter
FLW's son David Samuel Wright [1895-1997] lived in historic East Phoenix FLW house
daughter-in-law Gladys Wright [d 2008]
FLW's daughter Frances Lloyd Wright Suppes Caroe [1898-1959]
son-in-law Richard Andrews Suppes [] m. 1920, divorced in 1934
son-in-law Oscar Emil Caroe [] m. 1934 and had one daughter
FLW's son Robert Llewellyn Wright [1903-85]
lived in historic 1957 Robert Llewellyn Wright House in Bethesda, Maryland
paramour Mary 'Mamah' Borthwick Cheney [1869-1914] - moved in 1909, murdered 8/1914
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamah_Borthwick
her son John Cheney [1902-14]
her daughter Martha Cheney [1905-14]
second wife Maude Miriam Noel Wright [1869-1930] - m. 1923; div. 1927
third wife Olga 'Olgivanna' Lazovich Milanoff Hinzenberg Wright [1898-1985] - m. 1928, widowed 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olgivanna_Lloyd_Wright
her daughter Svetlana Hinzenberg Wright Peters [1917-46] - adopted by FLW
son-in-law William Wesley 'Wes' Peters [1912-91] - widower 1946
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wesley_Peters
grandson cellist Brandoch Peters [b. 1941]
grandson Daniel Peters [1944-46]
Wes's second wife Svetlana Alliluyeva Zhdanova Morozov Peters (daughter of Joseph Stalin) aka Lana Peters [1926-2011] - married 1970, div 1973
her son Iosif Grigor'evich Alliluyev [1945-2008] of Moscow, Russia
her daughter Yekaterina Zhdanova [b. 1950] Russian-Soviet volcanologist
Wes's daughter Olga Peters / Chrese Evans [b. 1971] of Portland, Oregon
FLW's daughter Iovanna Lloyd Wright [b. 1925] - married 5 times, has one daughter
The Wright Library fansite page about the Wright children
The Buildings
list of all Frank Lloyd Wright buildings at Wikipedia
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed by location at Wikipedia
Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed by location at educational website ThoughtCo [est. 2013]
UNESCO announced in July 2019 that eight of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings had been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The designation gives Wright's buildings the same status as 1,000 other sites that include such iconic landmarks as Machu Picchu in Peru, the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, and the Statue of Liberty. The Wright buildings included on the list are Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Hollyhock House in Los Angeles, the Jacobs House in Wisconsin, the Robie House in Chicago, Taliesin in Wisconsin, Taliesin West in Arizona, and the Unity Temple in Illinois.
1901 Fricke House in Oak Park, Illinois
1901 Davenport House in River Forest, Illinois
1902 Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, Illinois { see video below}
1902-06 Larkin Company Administration Building in Buffalo, New York 
1902-04 Dana-Thomas House at 301 E. Lawrence Avenue in Springfield, Illinois
http://www.dana-thomas.org/
"Susan's House: Where Frank Lloyd Got It Wright" [2005]
http://bckay.home.mchsi.com/
1905-08 Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois
1906 Thomas P. Hardy House in Racine, Wisconsin
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Hardy House" [2006] by Mark Hertzberg Pomegranate Press 7¼x7¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $14.96 |
1906 Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, MI
1908-10 Robie House in Chicago, Illinois
Taliesin Estate [begun 1911, rebuilt 1914 & 1925] near Spring Green, Wisconsin
1915-16 low-income housing in Southside Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1917-21 A.D. German Warehouse in Richland Center, Wisconsin
Aline M. Barnsdall 'Hollyhock' House
in Hollywood, California [1919-23]
Friends of Hollyhock House [est. 1978] official website
official Hollyhock House / Barnsdall Art Park website
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: Hollyhock House & Olive Hill" [1992] by Kathryn Smith, photography by Sam Nugroho Hennessey + Ingalls 9¾x9¾ pb [5/2006] for $30.36 Rizzoli Intl. hardcover [11/92] out of print/used |
1922 Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan {demolished 1968} 
P.B.S. / Frank Lloyd Wright / Buildings / Imperial Hotel
1923 Storer House in West Hollywood, California
1924 Ennis Brown House
at 2655 Glendower Avenue in Hollywood, California
official Ennis Brown House website
Ennis Brown House entry at Wikipedia
1926 Sowden House in Los Feliz [Los Angeles], California
1928 {design} Frank Lloyd Wright Pottery House [built 1984], 1430 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1929 Richard Lloyd Jones 'Westhope' house in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Fallingwater House in Mill Run, PA [1934-37] 
Fallingwater House official site
entry at Wikipedia
West PA Conservancy [est. 1932] / Fallingwater pages
 | "Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann & America's Most Extraordinary House" [2003] by Franklin Toker Knopf 9½x6.3 hardcover [9/2003] for $23.80 |
 | "Fallingwater, The House Tour" [2000] Directed by Stephen Robbins indep color VHS [2/2000] for $19.95 no listing at IMDb |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater" (F.L.W. At A Glance Series) [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $11.94 |
"Fallingwater: A Conversation with Edgar Kaufmann, Jr." [1994 video]
Directed by Kenneth Love;
video not available; meager info at IMDb
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's House On The Waterfall" documentary film [PBS 1989] Co-produced & written by Mary Rawson Home Vision color VHS [2/94] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
 | "Fallingwater: A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House" [1986] by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.; photography by Thomas A. Heinz Abbeville Press 13½x10 hardcover [11/86] for $37.40 |
1936-39 S.C. Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin
1937 Taliesin West in Arizona
1937 Jacobs {Usonian} House in Madison, Wisconsin
1938-39 Wingspread Conference Center in Wind Point (Racine), Wisconsin
1939 [Usonian] Rosenbaum House [expanded in 1948] in Florence, AL
official Rosenbaum House website
Rosenbaum House at Great Buildings Online
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House: The Birth & Rebirth of An American Treasure" [2006] by Barbara Kimberlin Broach Pomegranate Press 8¼x7¼ hardcover [9/2006] for $13.57 |
1940 Pope-Leighey House
1945 Arnold Friedman House "The Fir Tree" in Pecos, New Mexico
1946 Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, Wisconsin
1946 residence design for philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82] - never built 
1949 house in Orinda, California
1950? Wm. & Mary Palmer House in Ann Arbor, MI
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House" [2007] by Grant Hildebrand, with Ann & Leonard K. Eaton Univ WA Press 10x8 pb [2/2007] for $19.80 |
1951 Wayfarers Chapel on the Palos Verdes, California coast
1951 Benjamin Adelman House in Phoenix, Arizona
1952 David & Gladys Wright house in East Phoenix, Arizona
built for FLW's son & daughter-in-law; threatened as-of 10/2012; sold to preservationist team 9/2020 for $7ΌM.
1953 House on Kentuck Knob official site
1953-59 Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania
1954 Harold C. Price residence in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
1956 Price Company Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
official Price Tower Arts Center website
The Inn At Price Tower website
"Little Skyscraper On The Prairie" article in Atlantic Magazine (July/August 2008)
 | "Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright's Price Tower" [2005] by Anthony Alofsin Rizzoli Intl. pb [8/2006] out of print/rare Rizzoli Intl. 12¾x9¼ hardcover [10/2005] for $37.96 |
1957 Duncan House in Lisle, Illinois
1957 Marin County [CA] Civic Center
historic 1957 Robert Llewellyn Wright House at 7927 Deepwell Drive in Bethesda, Maryland
1958 Seth Peterson Cottage in Mirror Lake, Wisconsin
1959 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art in New York City { see video below}
Guggenheim Museum page at Glass, Steel & Stone
1960 Usonian-style Olfelt House in St. Louis Park (Minneapolis), Minnesota
one of the last homes that Wright designed (1958), completed in 1960; remains largely unchanged, put up for sale by original owners in 2017 for $1.4M
house entry at Wikipedia
1961 Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
1984 Pottery House adobe [designed in 1941] in Santa Fe, New Mexico
1992 Monona Terrace Center [designed in 1959] in Madison, Wisconsin
2004 Blue Sky Mausoleum [designed in 1928] in Buffalo, NY
2005 Massaro island house [designed in 1950] in Lake Mahopac, NY
pre-construction Panama City house [designed in 1956] in Santa Rosa, California
Auldbrass Plantation
Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Sherman Booth House
Bradley House
Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri
Dana House
Danforth Chapel in Lakeland, FL
First Christian Church in Phoenix, AZ
Gilmore {aka Airplane} House in Madison, Wisconsin
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University
Isadore Heller House
Joseph Husser House
Darwin Martin House in Buffalo, NY
Pearce House in Bradbury, California
Pettit Chapel in Belvidere, IL
Pfeiffer Chapel in Lakeland, FL
Pilgrim Congressional Church in Redding, California
Sturgis House
Walker House in Carmel, California
Books About The Buildings
"The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College" []
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Revealed" [2007] by Rebecca King Chartwell Books 13x11¼ hardcover [2/2007] for $19.99 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright In Arizona" [2006] by Lawrence W. Cheek Rio Nuevo 8¼x8¼ hardcover [1/2006] for $13.22 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses" [2005] text by Alan Hess, photographs by Alan Weintraub Rizzoli 11x11 hardcover [11/2005] for $47.25 |
 | "Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions For Making Small Houses Feel Big" [2003] by Diane Maddex Harry N. Abrams 9½x9¼ hardcover [11/2003] for $19.80 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Houses" [2002] by Thomas A. Heinz Gramercy 10¼x8¼ hardcover [5/2002] for $9.99 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Interiors" [2002] by Thomas A. Heinz Gramercy 10¼x8½ hardcover [5/2002] for $9.99 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Stained Glass & Lightscreens" [2000] by Thomas A. Heinz Gibbs Smith, Publr 9¾x9¾ pb [8/2005] for $19.95 Gibbs Smith, Publr 10¼x10¼ hardcover [7/2000] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Western Work" [1999] by Dixie Legler, photographs by Scot Zimmerman Chronicle Books 10x10½ hardcover [9/99] for $40.00 |
 | "Lost Wright: Frank Lloyd Wright's Vanished Masterpieces" [1996] by Carla Lind S&S 9½x9¼ hardcover [10/96] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks" [1993] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer & David Larkin Rizzoli hardcover [9/93] for $51.00 |
 | "A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion" [1993] by William Allin Storrer detailed plans, photographs & brief histories of every structure [over 450] built by America's most widely-known architect Univ of Chicago Press 11x10¾ hardcover [11/93] for $76.50 |
 | "The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright: A Complete Catalog" [MIT Press 1978] by William Allin Storrer Univ of Chicago Press 9x6¼ pb [10/2002] for $25.55 Univ of Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2002] for $70/90 |
Books About Frank Lloyd Wright
browse all books by/about Frank Lloyd Wright
http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Art-Japan/dp/0810945630/
http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Japan-Architecture/dp/0415232694/
http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Life-Architecture/dp/0471857971/
 | "Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright" [1960] by Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Horizon Press hardcover/pb [6/79] out of print/used |
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"Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life, His Work, His Words" [1966] by Olgivanna Lloyd Wright Horizon Press hardcover [6/66] out of print/used |
 | "The Prairie School: Frank Lloyd Wright & His Midwest Contemporaries" [1972] by H. Allen Brooks
W.W. Norton pb [3/2006] for $19.00 W.W. Norton 8½x8½ pb [6/96] out of print/used Univ of Toronto Press hardcover [10/72] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography" [1992] by Meryle Secrest Univ Chicago Press pb [5/98] for $14.28 Knopf 10x6¾ hardcover [9/92] out of print/used |
 | "Wright Style: Re-Creating The Spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright" [1992] by Carla Lind Thames & Hudson 2nd edition 11½x9½ pb [10/2004] out of print/used S&S 11¾x9¾ hardcover [11/92] for $31.50 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect: An Illustrated Biography" [YA 1993] by Alexander O. Boulton Rizzoli Intl. 11¼x8¾ hardcover [8/93] out of print/used |
 | "Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright" [1997] by Brendan Gill Da Capo Press 9x6 pb [9/98] for $22.00 Putnam hardcover [11/97] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright and The Prairie" [1998] by Melanie Birk F.L.W. Home & Studio Fndtn 7½x7½ hardcover [4/98] for $13.27 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect" [1998] by Kathryn Smith Abbeville Press 10½x9½ hardcover [3/98] for $26.60 Abbeville Press 4½x4¼ mini-hardcover [3/98] for $9.56 [sic] |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright/Georgia O'Keeffe: Duets" [2004] by Llorenη Bonet Collins Design 9x6¾ hardcover [1/2004] for $11.01 Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Page |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright" [2004] by Ada Louise Huxtable Viking/Penguin Lives 7½x5¾ hardcover [11/2004] for $15.56 |
 | "Reflections From The Shining Brow: My Years With Frank Lloyd Wright & Olgivanna Lazovich" [2004] by Kamal Amin Daniel & Daniel Publrs pb [10/2007] for $11.63 Fithian Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2004] for $25.60 |
 | "The Fountainheads: Wright, Rand, The F.B.I. & Hollywood" [2005] by Donald Leslie Johnson Speculative examination of the possible relationships between philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82] and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, two versions of the movie "The Fountainhead", the F.B.I., and the Hollywood blacklist McFarland & Co. pb [9/2011] for $45.00 McFarland & Co. 10x7¼ hardcover [1/2005] for $75.00 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright and The Architecture of Japanese Prints" catalog for exhibition at the Hammer Museum, October 2005 to January 2006 Hammer Museum's exhibition entry |
 | "The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Fellowship" [2006] by Roger Friedland & Harold Zellman Harper Perennial 9¼x6 pb [10/2007] for $12.89 Regan Books 9½x6½ hardcover [8/2006] for $23.07 |
 | "Death In A Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright & The Taliesin Murders" [2007] by William R. Drennan Near Spring Green, Wisconsin in 1914, five adults & two children close to Frank Lloyd Wright were brutally murdered and his newly built Taliesin cottage was burned to the ground – an event given little attention in biographies of Wright. Univ WI Press 9x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $19.77 |
 | "Loving Frank: A Novel" [2007] by Nancy Horan Ballantine Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [8/2007] for $14.37 Brilliance Audio ABR audio CD [8/2007] for $17.79 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright In New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959" [2007] by Jane King Hession & Debra Pickrel Gibbs Smith, Publr 11x8¾ hardcover [9/2007] for $21.86 |
 | "The Women: A Novel" [2009] by T.C. Boyle Frank Lloyd Wrights raucous life told through the experiences of the four women who loved him, with author Boyles trademark wit and invention. Penguin 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $10.88 Viking 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2009] out of print/used |
"Chasing Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and Mine, Intertwined [] by Conrad N. Brown, Architect
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-FRANK-LLOYD-WRIGHT-Intertwined/dp/0976990377/
Books by Frank Lloyd Wright
 | "The House Beautiful" [1896 & 1996] Essay by William C. Gannett; book design by Frank Lloyd Wright; restoration by John Arthur Pomegranate Press 11x9¼ hardcover [4/96] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Fifty Views of Japan: The 1905 Photo Album" [1996] from the Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio Foundation Pomegranate Press 8½x11 pb [11/96] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Volume 1: 1894-1930" [1992] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli pb [6/92] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Volume 2: Including An Autobiography, 1930-1932" [1992] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli 10x8 pb [6/92] for $40.00 Rizzoli 10½x8½ hardcover [6/92] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Volume 3: 1931-1939" [1994] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli pb [12/94] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Volume 4: 1939-1949" [1994] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli 10x8 bargain pb [12/94] for $12.99 Rizzoli 10¼x8½ pb [11/94] out of print/used Rizzoli hardcover [2/94] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings, Volume 5: 1949-1959" [1995] Edited by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Rizzoli 10x8 pb [5/95] out of print/used |
'Wright At A Glance' Book Series
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's California Houses" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $9.95 |
 | "Californian Textile Block" [2002] by Abby Moor PRC Pubnlg 8¾x5¾ hardcover [3/2004] for $5.98 Sterling 8¼x6.3 pb [10/2002] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Dining Rooms" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] for $9.95 |
 | "Early Years" [2002] by Doreen Ehrlich PRC hardcover [3/2004] for $13.97 PRC 8¼x6½ hardcover [5/2002] for $12.95 |
| | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $11.94 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Fireplaces" [1995] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] for $9.95 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's First Houses" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] for $11.94 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Furnishings" [1995] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Glass Designs" [1995] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5½x5½ hardcover [9/95] for $9.95 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Life & Homes" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5½x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Lost Buildings" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5½x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $11.94 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5¾x5½ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Public Buildings" [1996] by Carla Lind Pomegranate Press 5¼x5¼ hardcover [11/96] out of print/used |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses" [1994] by Carla Lind Pomegranate5¼x5¼ hardcover [9/94] for $9.95 |
Movies & TV, Stageplays, Other Media
 | "Omnibus: American Profiles" DVD Box Set [2011]
E1 Entertainment b&w DVD set [7/2011] 2 disks for $16.99 contains 14 programs or segments on two disks: featured topics include Leonard Bernstein; Pearl Buck; the F-100 warplane; William Faulkner; Grand Central Terminal in New York City; photographer Philippe Halsman; The New York Times; Sugar Ray Robinson & Stillman's Gym; Dr. Seuss; James Thurber; E.B. White; and Frank Lloyd Wright [22 minutes; aired 25 Oct 1953] series credits at IMDb series entry at Wikipedia |
 | "A Summer Place" [Warner Bros. Oct 1956] Extensive location filming at Wright's Walker House in Carmel, California. A story of middle-aged adultery intertwined with teenage love and adult hypocrisy about it. A self-made millionaire vacations with his wife and teenage daughter on an island off the Maine coast where he'd previously worked as a lifeguard. He resumes a romance with an island resident who is trapped in a marriage as loveless as his. Scandal erupts when word of this romance becomes public, but it serves to draw together his daughter and her teenage son Produced, written & directed by Delmer Daves; based on the Sloan Wilson novel; starring Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue, Constance Ford, Beulah Bondi, Jack Richardson & Martin Eric Warner color DVD [2/2007] for $14.99 Warner color VHS [1/93] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 |
 | "House On Haunted Hill" [Allied Artists Feb 1959] Extensive location filming at Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California. A creepy millionaire tempts five people with $10,000 each if they can survive the night locked inside a hilltop house where seven people were murdered Co-produced & directed by William Castle; starring Vincent Price, Carolyn Craig, Richard Long, Elisha Cook Jr., Carol Ohmart, Alan Marshal, Julie Mitchum, Leona Anderson & Howard Hoffman Alpha Video b&w DVD [4/2003] for $7.98 Warner b&w widescreen DVD [10/99] for $12.99 Good Times Video b&w VHS [9/2003] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $19.99 |
 | "Blade Runner" [Ladd Company June 1982] Location filming at Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California. Directed by Ridley Scott, based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [1968] by Philip K. Dick; starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh & Daryl Hannah; music by Vangelis; won Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, listed on National Film Registry in 1993; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005) full credits from IMDb watch official 30th Anniversary trailer [2:28] online at YouTube Warner Collector's Edition widescreen color on Blu-ray [12/2007] 5 disks for $24.99 Warner Final Cut Special Edition widescreen color DVD [12/2007] 2 disks for $10.99 Warner Director's Cut DVD [3/97] for $11.99 more details (synopsis, books, posters, links) on Magic Lantern's "Blade Runner" 1982 Movie Page |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright: The Office For Edgar J. Kaufmann" [1992] 30-minute color documentary film written & directed by Pamela Glintenkamp video/DVD/Blu-ray not available credits from IMDb |
 | "Shining Brow: The Opera About Frank Lloyd Wright" [1993] Music composed by Daron Hagen, libretto by Paul Muldoon Premiered in 1993 in Wisconsin; the true story of visionary architect Wright who left his wife for a clients wife, with whom he lived openly until she and her two children were murdered by hatchet in one of his signature houses, Taliesin Faber & Faber 7¾x4¾ pb [2/93] out of print used official website listing at Opera America watch patchwork performance video [3/2015 upload; 6:21] online at YouTube opera performed by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus Naxos American audio CD [3/2009] 40 tracks on 2 disks for $15.37 |
 | "1071 Fifth Avenue: Frank Lloyd Wright & The Story of The Guggenheim Museum" [1994] Directed by Peter Lydon Home Vision color VHS [12/2002] for $19.95 bare credits at IMDb |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese Art" [1997] Directed by Kenneth Love video/DVD/Blu-ray not available credits from IMDb |
 | "The Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright" [A&E special 1998]
A&E color VHS [2/98] for $19.95 not listed at IMDb |
 | "Permanent Midnight" [Artisan Sept 1998] Location filming at Wright's Pearce House in gated Bradbury, California. After a stint in rehab, a TV writer regales a fellow survivor with the story of his drug-frenzied melt-down in flashbacks. Written & directed by David Veloz; based on a book by Jerry Stahl; starring Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Jay Paulson, Spencer Garrett, Owen Wilson, Elizabeth Hurley, Lourdes Benedicto, Fred Willard, Connie Nielsen, Liz Torres, Janeane Garofalo, Sandra Oh, Scott Williamson, Cheryl Ladd & Jerry Stahl LionsGate color DVD [2/99] for $12.99 Live/Artisan color VHS [7/2001] out of prodn/many used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright" documentary film [P.B.S. Nov 1998] Co-produced & co-directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick; narration by Edward Herrmann; won a Peabody Award PBS Home Video color DVD [8/2001] for $26.98 PBS Home Video color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes for $24.98 full credits from IMDb PBS webpages |
 | "The Thirteenth Floor" [Columbia May 1999] Location filming at Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California. A stylish modern-day noir. The designer of a computer game that is set in 1930s Los Angeles discovers a secret and is killed. His coworkers are suspect, and they search inside the simulated world for clues to the real killer. Co-written & directed by Josef Rusnak; based on Daniel F. Galouye's novel "Simulacron 3"; starring Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dennis Haysbert, Steven Schub, Jeremy Roberts, Rif Hutton, Leon Rippy, Janet MacLachlan & Johnny Crawford Sony color DVD [10/99] for $9.95 Sony color VHS [3/2000] out of prodn/many used Milan Records soundtrack CD [6/99] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb movie entry at Wikipedia 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 |
 | "Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Heurtley House" [2003] includes a record of discoveries & work during the 5-year restoration of Wright's 1902 Arthur Heurtley House in Oak Park, Illinois Emphasis color DVD [11/2004] out of prodn/used not listed at IMDb |
 | "Sacred Spaces: The Houses of Worship Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright" [2005] This 54-minute documentary presents all 10 of Wright's religious structures, including Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL; Pettit Chapel in Belvidere, IL; Pfeiffer Chapel & Danforth Chapel in Lakeland, FL; Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri; Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, WI; Beth Sholom Synagogue in Elkins Park, PA; Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Milwaukee, WI; Pilgrim Congressional Church in Redding, CA; and First Christian Church in Phoenix, Arizona Directed by Michael Miner; written by Douglas Miller; narrated by Charles Andrews Reel Shop Prodns color DVD [11/2005 video release] out of prodn/scarce credits at IMDb |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater" [2006 video release]
Disk 1 is a 60-minute video tour of the residence that Wright designed for the Kaufman family and built in 1935 in Western Pennsylvania; Disk 2 is a DVD-ROM interactive 360° CGI virtual tour that can run on Windows (95 or higher) or Mac OSX. Co-produced by Timothy Sakamoto; co-written & directed by Lynda Waggoner in-D Press/Microcinema Intl. color DVD & DVD-ROM [2/2006] 2 disks for $25.99 movie credits at IMDb |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West" [2007 video release] Disk 1 is a 30-minute video tour of Wright's home, studio & school in the Phoenix, Arizona desert suburb of Scottsdale, and a 52-minute biographical film; Disk 2 is a DVD-ROM interactive 360° CGI virtual tour that can run on Windows (95 or higher) or Mac OSX Directed by Timothy Sakamoto; written by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer in-D Press/Microcinema Intl. color DVD & DVD-ROM [6/2007] 2 disks for $25.00 movie credits at IMDb |
 | "Frank Lloyd Wright's Home & Studio" [2008 video release] Disk 1 is a 60-minute video tour of Wright's official home & studio in the Chicago, Illinois suburb of Oak Park; Disk 2 is a DVD-ROM interactive 360° CGI virtual tour that can run on Windows (95 or higher) or Mac OSX Written & directed by Timothy Sakamoto in-D Press/Microcinema Intl. color DVD & DVD-ROM [8/2008] 2 disks for $31.49 in-D Press/Microcinema Intl. color DVD only [8/2008] for $25.00 movie credits at IMDb |
W.N.E.T.'s "Picturing America on Screen" Project [2011]
Charles Sheeler & Frank Lloyd Wright [6:02]
"Taliesin" [still in development 2022]
Announced 12/2011: Veteran filmmaker Bruce Beresford has signed on to develop & direct a film about 'fabled
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