Wayfarers' Chapel Fonds, 1937-1979.

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Wayfarers' Chapel Fonds, 1937-1979.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/486957935

The majority of the drawings and all of the files relate to the design and construction of the Wayfarers' Chapel, including conceptual and design development sketches for the chapel (1946-51) and for subsequent additions including a parish house and cloister (1953-59), campanile (1953-56), entrance gate and sign (1954-68), work shed and yard (1957-58), baptismal font (1963-64), audiovisual exhibit (1970-78) and auditorium addition (1970-78). The fonds also includes material for related unbuilt projects: the Swedenborg Memorial Chapel, El Cerrito, California (1950-62), Snow Chapel, Île Bigras, Laval, Québec (1951), and an unidentified plan for a structure or structures on a hillside site, possibly for the built Ralph Jester House in Palos Verdes, California (1949-50).

281 drawings, 42 reprographic copies, 1.7 linear m. of textual records, 1 photomechanical print.

Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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SNAC Resource ID: 7597358

Centre canadien d'architecture, | Canadian Centre for Architecture | CCA

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Wayfarers' Chapel (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.)

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Wright, Lloyd, 1890-1978

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Lloyd Wright: b. 1890, Oak Park. Ill.; d. Santa Monica, Calif. 1978; architect and landscape architect. Son of Frank Lloyd Wright. From the description of Wayfarers' Chapel Fonds, 1937-1979. (Centre canadien d'architecture). WorldCat record id: 486957935 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, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1908-9; joined Olmsted and Olmsted in Boston, MA; ...