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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Lloyd Wright papers
Creator:
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1561
Physical Description:
83 linear feet
(42 boxes, 62 cartons, and 375 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1920-1978
Abstract: Lloyd Wright (1890-1978) was the eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright. He trained as a draftsman/delineator in his father's Oak
Park Studio, and studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin (1908-09). He was a landscape architect for various Los
Angeles projects (1922-24), provided the shells for the Hollywood Bowl (1924-25 and 1928), and produced the Swedenborg Memorial
Chapel (or Wayfarer's Chapel) at Palos Verdes, California (1946-71). The collection consists of Wright's original drawings,
renderings, blueprints, photographs, models and office files. Many of the photographs in the collection are by Will Connell.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Property rights to the objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained
by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue
the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Eric Lloyd Wright, purchase, 1990.
- Gift of Eric Lloyd Wright, 1993.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9936492913606533
[Identification of item], Lloyd Wright papers (Collection 1561). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Lloyd Wright, eldest son of Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1890; trained as a draftsman/delineator in his father's Oak Park
Studio; studied engineering, University of Wisconsin, 1908-09; joined Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston, Massachusetts; sent to
San Diego, California, to work on Panama California Exposition, 1911; worked for Irving J. Gill; formed landscape architectural
practice with Paul Thiene and continued professional activities as landscape architect through the 1920s; worked with father,
Frank Lloyd Wright, on Hollyhock House and other Los Angeles projects, 1922-24; produced project for multilayered civic center,
Los Angeles, 1925; provided the shells for the Hollywood Bowl, 1924-25 and 1928; much of his work from 1930s through post-World
War II dealt with variations of California ranch houses; produced Swedenborg Memorial Chapel (or Wayfarer's Chapel) at Palos
Verdes, California, 1946-71; died in 1978.
Collection consists of original drawings, renderings, blueprints, photographs, models and office files of Southern California
architect Lloyd Wright. Includes materials related to over 360 of Wright's architectural projects. Also includes correspondence
between Wright and his father, Frank Lloyd Wright, about the Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, California. Many of the photographs
in the collection are by Will Connell.
This collection has been arranged in the following series: in the following series:
Series 1: Files
Series 2: Blueprints, plans, drawings, photos, renderings, and other material
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Designs and plans
Architectural drawings (visual works).
Photographs.
Notebooks.
Blueprints.
Architecture -- California, Southern -- 20th century.
Architects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives
Hollyhock House (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Wayfarers' Chapel--Designs and plans.
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959--Correspondence.
Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978--Archives.