Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana House

Donald Hoffmann

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486139227
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

This handsome pictorial essay profiles one of Wright's residential masterpieces, recapturing the building's innovative `prairie-style` lines, dynamic structure, decorative sculpture, and other aspects in more than 160 interior and exterior photos, plans, elevations, sketches, and studies. The detailed, informative text documents the history of the magnificent Springfield, Illinois, house, including its site, plans and construction, and the elements and principles underlying its design.

Index

(Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations only.)

Abstract of title

Abstraction in design

Accent blocks

Addams, Jane

Adler & Sullivan

Alcoves

Allegorical figures

Allen, James

Allen, W H., Addition

Alley vacated

Alton

Alton & Sangamon railroad

American House (hotel)

Andirons

Angle, Paul M.

Anthony, Achsah

Appraisals

Arch and vault

Architectural Review

“Architecture” (allegorical sculpture)

Architecture and nature

Art glass; cost of

Articulation

Art Institute of Chicago

Art market

Art pottery

Arts and Crafts domesticity

Assistants in Oak Park Studio

Aster, purple

Auction

Avery, Charles

Axial relationships

Ayers, John W., Company

Bach, J. S.

Bahamas

Balconies

Bandini, Giovanni

Barclay Ill.

Bargello Palace, Florence

Barton, George, house in Buffalo, N.Y (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Barton, William E.

Basement

Basilica

Basler, Roy P

Bateman, Newton

Bathrooms

Beardstown

Bedrooms

Bedroom suite for Mrs. Lawrence

Beethoven

Bellaire, Mich.

Beltcourses

Berlage, H.P

Berlin portfolios (Wasmuth)

Bice, Earl R.

Bice Collection of Dana papers

Billiard room

Biltmore, Asheville, N.C.

Blossom, George, house in Chicago (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Board of Education

Boardinghouse

Bock, Richard W

Bock sculpture collection

Boiler

Bolinger, Wayne I.

Bolon, Carol R.

Books

Bowling alley

Breakfast bay or alcove

Bressmer, John

Bricks and brickwork

Brinkerhoff, John W.

Brooks, H. Allen

Brown, Stuart, house

Building arts

Building process

Building program

Building types

Bunn, J. F.

Butterflies

Butterfly hanging lamps

Butterfly-wing bridge project (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Butterfly-wreath transoms

Byrne, Barry

Caldwell, Ben F, house near Springfield

“Calhoun” (Springfield, Ill.)

Cantilever expression

Caretaker

Carriage house

Casements

Casework

Cavanaugh, Tom R.

Cecilian player organ

Cedarville, Ohio

Ceilings and ceiling lights

Centerline

Central Baptist Church

Central Block, Springfield

Chain-link fence

Chappell, Sally Kitt

Charity bazaar

Chicago

Chicago Academy of Sciences

Chicago & Alton railroad

Chicago Architectural Club

Chicago Arts and Crafts Society

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

“Chicago window,”

Chimney mass

Client idealized

Coat- (or cloak-) rooms

Coe, Ralph T

Colorado

Colors, autumnal

Commentary, academic

Complexity

Conception and composition

Concrete

Confinement overcome

Conservators

Conservatory

Coonley, Avery, house in Riverside. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Coonley Playhouse (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Copper and verdigris

Corbeled bay

Corners

Cornice

Corridor to studio

Cost of house

Cottage on homestead

Courthouse square

Curtain walls

Dahl, Jörgen Constantin (Lawrence Joergen-Dahl)

Daily Illinois State Register

Dana, Charles A.

Dana, Edwin Ward

Dana, Edwin Whitney

Dana, Lawrence Henry

Dana, Susan Lawrence (Susie Lawrence, Susan Lawrence Joergen-Dahl, Susan Lawrence-Gehrmann, Susan Z. Lawrence): woman of means; house; born and named; marries Edwin Dana; husband dies; administers father’s estate; plans house; enthusiasm; moves temporarily; spirit-letters; holds housewarmings; as patron of the arts; yearnings; travels to Bahamas; more spirit-letters, money problems and entertainments; marries J.C. Dahl; marries C.A. Gehrmann; as feminist; ill health; enters hospital; dies

Dana estate

Dana-Thomas House Foundation

Darling, Sharon S.

Davidson, Sen. John A.

Day, Leigh Gross

Decks

Den, see sitting room

Deneen, Gov. Charles

Denmark

Dining room

Discipline of design

Diversification of the wall

Dominant and subordinate masses

Donald, David

Doors

Douglas Avenue

Downspouts, copper

Dragonfly motif

Dressing room

Drummond, William E.

Early settlers

Earth-line

East front

Eaves

Electric work

Elmslie, George Grant

Entertainments and social events

Entrance approach

Entrance arch

Entry

Equilibrium

Erotic basis of art

Eve of St. Agnes

Farrand Organ Company

Farrar, William G.

Fein, Albert

Ferns

Figueira, Joseph M.

Firedogs

Fire-insurance map

Fireflies

Fireplaces

Firescreen

First-floor plan

Floor levels

Floor tiles

Florence, Italy

“Flower in the Crannied Wall,”

Flowers

Fort Wayne, Ind.

Foundation work

Fountain in living hall

Fourth Street

Fox River Country Club, near Geneva. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Freudian terms

“Friends of the Fellowship,”

Frieze

Frontages

Furniture

Gable

Gallery above living hall

Gannett, William C.

Garden court

Garden walls

Garner, John S.

Gates, William D., Company

Gates at entry

Gaule, Luke J.

Gehrmann, Charles A.

Genie motif

Geometric abstraction and invention

Georg, Herbert

Giambologna (Jean Boulogne)

Giannini, Orlando

Gilman, Clinton and Springfield Rail Road

Glass prisms

Glass screen behind fountain

Goldenrod

Gothic spirit

Governor’s mansion, Springfield

Granger, Alfred H.

Grants Pass, Ore.

Grass terrace

Gravity

Great Western Railroad

Greene County, Ohio

Greenville College

Griffin, Walter Burley

Grilles

Ground plan

Guggenheim Museum, New York (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Gutters

Half-timbering

Hall, Curtis H.

Hallmark, Donald P

Hamilton, Mary Jane

Hamlin, A. D. F

Hanes, Murray

Hanes, S. J.

Hanks, David A.

Hasbrouck, Wilbert R.

Hasbrouck Peterson Associates

Heath, W R., house in Buffalo, N.Y. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

“Heliocopter” sketch

Heller, Isidore, house in Chicago (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Herndon, William H.

Hertz, Emanuel

Hierarchical relationships

Hillside Home School

Hitchcock, Henry-Russell

Hoffmann, George C.

Hollyhocks

Holst, Hermann V von

Home environment

“Home in a Prairie Town” project (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Homestead

Horizontal motif

Horse walk

House Beautiful, The (private edition)

House Beautiful magazine

Hull-House

Husser, Helen, house in Chicago (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Illinois, State of

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois inheritance tax

Illinois River

Illinois state capitol

Illinois State Hospital for the Insane

Illinois State Journal

Imitation of nature

Indian pottery

“Inferior desecraters,”

Inglenooks

Insect patterns

Inventories

Irving, Edward P, house in Decatur. (Frank Lloyd Wright et al.)

Italianate villa

Italian exhibit of Wright’s work

Jacksonville, Fla.

Jacksonville

Japan

Japanese lanterns

Japanese woodblock prints

Johnson Wax Buildings in Racine, Wis. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Jordy, W H.

Josephine County, Ore.

Kitchen

Kitchen wing

Klassen, Clarence W.

Ladies’ Home Journal

Lamps

Landscape and freedom

Landscaping

Larkin Building, Buffalo, N.Y. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

Latticework

Lawrence, Agnes Salome

Lawrence, Flora

Lawrence, Lewis W

Lawrence, Mary Agnes (Mrs. R. D. Lawrence)

Lawrence, Rheuna Drake; will

Lawrence, Susan Minerva

Lawrence Avenue

Lawrence Buildi...