Historic American Building survey drawings, Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MS-0022-0010

Staff Only

Collection contains architectural drawings of the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1904. Drawings were done for the Historic American Buildings Survey of the United States National Park Service by a team of students at the State University of New York at Buffalo: John J. Joseph, Patrick Mahoney, Robert Hayes, Kenneth Grudens, Michael Vaughan, Mark Pustulka, Ronald Kessler, Kim Lam, Steven Koy, Jonathan Morris, Robert Kasprzak, Frank J. Burkhart, and Mark Schryver. The students were advised by Assistant Professor Mark Ernst and Martin House Curator John D. O'Hern.

Dates

1987

Creator

Historic American Buildings Survey (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English.

Terms of Access

The Historic American Building survey drawings, Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, 1986-1987 are open for research.

Copyright

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.

Extent

1.5 Linear Feet (1 flat box)

Additional Description

Overview

Collection contains architectural drawings from the Historic American Buildings Survey of the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1904.

Chronology

Martin Family - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1865-1959

1865: Darwin D. Martin born - Boucville, Madison Co., NY
1867: Frank Lloyd Wright born - Richland Center, Wisconsin
1869: Isabelle Reidpath, the future Mrs. Martin, born - Buffalo, NY
1878: Brothers Darwin D. Martin and Louis Frank Martin selling soap for Larkin Company in NYC
1879: Darwin D. Martin, aged thirteen, begins work at Larkin Company in Buffalo
1885: Darwin D. Martin invents cardex
1887: Frank Lloyd Wright begins studies at the University of Wisconsin
1888: Darwin D. Martin begins building house on Summit Avenue in Buffalo
1889: Darwin D. Martin marries Isabelle Reidpath; Frank Lloyd Wright builds Home and Studio in Oak Park
1890: Frank Lloyd Wright joins Alder and Sullivan; Darwin D. Martin replaces Elbert Hubbard as Secretary of Larkin Soap Company
1893: Frank Lloyd Wright starts his own practice
1902: October 29 - Darwin D. Martin meets Frank Lloyd Wright; Darwin D. Martin purchases site for Martin House Complex, Jewett Parkway
1903: October 11 - Construction begins on Barton House
1904: July 20 - Construction begins on Martin House; October - Barton House occupied
1905: Martin House Complex completed
1910: Frank Lloyd Wright designs Bar Beach Cottage (Bay Beach, Ontario, Canada) for Darwin D. Martin (unexecuted)
1923: Darwin D. Martin commissions Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for James and Dorothy Martin Foster, daughter of Darwin D. Martin (unexecuted)
1925: Martin retires from the Larkin Company
1926: Construction begins on Graycliff
1928: June 20 - Graycliff occupied; Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Blue Sky Mausoleum for Darwin D. Martin's ploy in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery (unexecuted)
1935: Darwin D. Martin dies in Buffalo
1936: Fallingwater (Bear Run, Pennsylvania), designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmanns
1945: Isabelle R. Martin dies in Buffalo
1959: Frank Lloyd Wright dies

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in two series: I. Paper drawings and II. Mounted drawings.

Acquisition Information

Collection was found in the basement of Hayes Hall in January 2011.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.

Related Resources

MS 22.0, Architectural drawings of the Darwin D. Martin House and Graycliff, 1904-1988
MS 22.1, Frank Lloyd Wright correspondence with Michael Meredith Hare, 1933, 1940
MS 22.2, Darwin D. Martin-Frank Lloyd Wright collection, reference files, 1904-2010
MS 22.3, Graycliff Construction photographs, circa 1926-1938
MS 22.4, Blueprints of the W.W. Davies Residence, Louisville, Kentucky, undated
MS 22.5, Darwin D. Martin photographs, circa 1860s-1970s
MS 22.6, Darwin D. Martin Family papers, 1878-1935
MS 22.7, Darwin D. Martin correspondence with O.S. Lang, 1904-1921
MS 22.8, Frank Lloyd Wright-Darwin D. Martin papers, circa 1888-1979
MS 22.9, Larkin Company plans, 1904, 1912
MS 22.91, Darwin D. Martin Digitization Project, 2006-2008
MS 22.92, Darwin D. Martin Digital images, circa 1860s-1970s
MS 22.93, Darwin D. Martin-Frank Lloyd Wright collection, oral histories, 1971-1980
MS 68, Graycliff Conservancy, Inc. collection
3/1/445, Friends of the Darwin D. Martin House, records,1966-1982

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Spencer, February 2011.

Subjects

Related Names

Creator

Historic American Buildings Survey (Organization)

Source

University Archives (Repository, Organization)
Buffalo and Western New York Architecture Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo) (Organization)

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Finding Aid for the Historic American Building survey drawings, Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York
Status: completed
Author: Finding aid prepared by Karen Spencer.
Date: 2011
Description rules: dacs
Language of description: und

Physical Storage Information

Box: 1 (Mixed Materials)

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives Repository

http://library.buffalo.edu/archives/

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