Larkin Administration Building, Buffalo, New York (1906)*

Artist/Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright

Project Location: Buffalo, United States

Figure 1: Atrium, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 2: Atrium Sketch, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 3: Atrium Ceiling, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 4: Typing Department, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 5: Filing cabinets & Type C Desks, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 6: Type B Desk, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 7: Main Floor Plan, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 8: Information Desk, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 9: Filing Cabinets, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Figure 10: Basement, Frank Llyod Wright, Larkin Administrative Building, Buffalo, New York, 1906 ( Source | Accessed : September 1, 2018 | Photographer: Larkin Company Photograph Collection, Research Library, Buffalo History Museum )

Style/Period(s):
Modern

Primary Material(s):
Concrete, Brick

Function(s):
Workplace

Related Website(s):

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Works - Larkin Administration Building | Accessed : March 7, 2018

Virtual Tour – Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Works | The Larkin Administration Building | Accessed : March 16, 2018

The Larkin Building, Buffalo, NY: History of the Demolition | Accessed : January 1, 1978

Wright Archives | Accessed : January 7, 2021

Newsweek | Accessed : January 7, 2021

Great Buildings | Accessed : January 7, 2021

Business Journal | Accessed : January 7, 2021

Wright Trust | Accessed : January 7, 2021

Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1906

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:

Alofsin, Anthony. "ZENITH." In Wright and New York: The Making of America's Architect, 238-65. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2019.

James M. Dennis & Lu B. Wenneker (1965) Ornamentation and the Organic Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright, Art Journal, 25:1, 2-14, DOI: 10.1080/00043249.1965.10793756

Manson, G. C. Frank Lloyd Wright to 1910: the First Golden Age. New York a.o: Van Nostrand Reinhold1958 ib. 79., n.d.
http://insideinside.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=9944&action=edit#

Quinan, Jack. "Frank Lloyd Wright, Preservation, and the Question of Authenticity." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 67, no. 1 (2008): 5-10.

Quinan, Jack. "“In the Thought of the World”: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building." In Buffalo at the Crossroads: The Past, Present, and Future of American Urbanism, edited by Christensen Peter H., 89-109. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2020.

Stanger, Howard. "Welfare Capitalism in the Larkin Company, 1900–1925." New York History 86, no. 2 (2005): 210-58.

Stanger, Howard R. "From Factory to Family: The Creation of a Corporate Culture in the Larkin Company of Buffalo, New York." The Business History Review 74, no. 3 (2000): 407-33.

Zeynep Çelik Alexander. The Larkin's Technologies of Trust, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 77 No. 3, September 2018; (pp. 300-318) DOI: 10.1525/jsah.2018.77.3.300

Building Address:
680 Seneca Street

Significant Dates:
Construction: 1904-06

Supporting Staff/ Designers:
N/A

Tags:
Workplace, Frank Llyod Wright, Demolished Buildings, Sedantary work.

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