'SBOL-MPZE8SJHIU )JTUPSJD"NFSJDBO #VJMEJOHT4VSWFZ '$#PHL)PVTF $PNQJMFECZ.BSD3PDILJOE Frank Lloyd Wright Historic American Buildings Survey Sample: F. C. Bogk House Compiled by Marc Rochkind Frank Lloyd Wright: Historic American Buildings Survey, Sample Compiled by Marc Rochkind ©2012,2015 by Marc Rochkind. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form or by any means (including electronic) without permission in writing from the copyright holder. Copyright does not apply to HABS materials downloaded from the Library of Congress website, although it does apply to the arrangement and formatting of those materials in this book. For information about other works by Marc Rochkind, including books and apps based on Library of Congress materials, please go to basepath.com. Introduction The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) was started in 1933 as one of the New Deal make-work programs, to employ jobless architects, draftspeople, and photographers. Its purpose is to document the nation’s architectural heritage, especially those buildings that are in danger of ruin or deliberate destruction. Today, the HABS is part of the National Park Service and its repository is in the Library of Congress, much of which is available online at loc.gov. Of the tens of thousands HABS buildings, I found 44 Frank Lloyd Wright designs that have been digitized. Each HABS survey includes photographs and/or drawings and/or a report. I’ve included here what the Library of Congress had–sometimes all three, sometimes two of the three, and sometimes just one. There might be a single photo or drawing, or, such as in the case of Florida Southern College (in volume two), over a hundred. While all of the documents in these books are on the Library of Congress website, they’re inconvenient to access. It’s time consuming to download the drawings as PDFs, which is what you have to do if you want to see their detail. The reports are separate PDFs, too. But I’ve done all that for you here, and even turned the drawings on their side so that they fill the page. The photographic reproduction isn’t as good as it would be with a more expensive production process, but then each volume would cost several times what it does. I’m a computer programmer, not an architect, although I’ve been seriously interested in architecture for many years. But that’s OK, because none of the text in these books other than this introduction is from me. The photo captions are verbatim from the Library of Congress, and all of the documents are shown without alteration, except that I adjusted the brightness and contrast of a few of the photos and converted the few color photos to B&W. No photos were cropped or straightened, and I’ve retained the negative edges. A few reports that have only one page that says “Photographs” or “Drawings” have been left out, as they contain no useful information. Preparing these books for publication involved a lot of processing. I used Lightroom, Photoshop, Acrobat, Pages, ExifTool, PDF Toolkit+, and several programs I wrote myself in PHP and Objective C. Actual page layout was done by an app of mine called ProofSheet that you can buy from the Mac App Store. While the pages could have been laid out with Pages or another word processor, placing the 600+ photos and their captions manually would have been extremely tedious. Instead, I wrote a PHP script that generated ExifTool commands to insert the captions from the Library of Congress web pages into the image files themselves, and then ProofSheet generated the two-up photo pages automatically, placing the captions under the photos. A separate run of ProofSheet prepared the one-up, sideways pages for the drawings, and then another app I wrote assembled the whole pile of hundreds of separate PDFs into three large PDFs with page numbers, one for each volume. That’s why it took a computer programmer, rather than an architect, to make these books. I hope you enjoy it! Marc J. Rochkind, May 2012 This short book, showing the material for the F. C. Bogk House, is provided an an inexpensive way to sample Volumes 1 - 3, which together comprise about 900 pages. Contents of Volume 1 American System-Built Homes Auldbrass Emil Bach House Barnsdall Park Barnsdall Park – Hollyhock House Barnsdall Park – Residence A Beth Sholom Synagogue F. C. Bogk House (here in this sample) Patricia Boulter House E. E. Boynton House B. Harley Bradley House Broad Margin James Charnley House Avery Coonley House Susan Lawrence Dana House Ennis House Fallingwater Contents of Volume 2 Contents of Volume 3 Florida Southern College Frederick C. Robie House Francis Apartments Rookery Building Samuel Freeman House Pope-Leighey House A. Glasner House Oscar Steffens House Isaac N. Hagan House Storer House R. Heath House Albert W. Sullivan House Isidore Heller House Louis H. Sullivan Summer House F. B. Henderson House Suntop Houses Johnson Wax Corporation Building Taliesin – Tan-Y-Deri Lindholm Oil Company Service Station Unity Temple Darwin D. Martin House Lowell Walter House William E. Martin House William H. Winslow House Meyer S. May House Wright Home & Studio V. C. Morris Store Reverend Jessie R. Ziegler House Park Inn & City National Bank Rose Pauson House Price Tower Ravine Bluffs Development Bridge - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 86 - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 87 - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 88 - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 89 - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 90 - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 91 - F. C. Bogk House, 2420 North Terrace Avenue, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, WI 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 F„ C -Bogfc;- House HABS Ho. WIS-252 2^20-North- Terrace Avenue (east side • of'."-North Terrace Avenue "between ;- •/'North-.Wahl" and East Bradford Avenues) -Milwaukee _.- . Milvaukee County/ ,"•'."-.. -Wisconsin" PHOTOGRAPHS WRITTM HISTOBICAL AUD DESCRIPTIVE DATA Historic American Buildings Survey Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation National Park Service Department of the Interior Washington, B.C. 202^0 104 HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY HABS No. WIS-252 F, C. BOGK HOUSE K «*, 40-MiuM Location: 2420 North Terrace Avenue (east side of North Ter- \D race Avenue between North Wahl and East Bradford Avenues), Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Present Owner Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Eisner, Jr. and Occupant: Present Use: Residence Statement of A handsome design that is well-constructed and well Significance: maintained, this house is the best of Frank Lloyd Wright's few early buildings in Milwaukee County, and an excellent example from the "Japanese" years of his career. PART I. HISTORICAL INFORMATION A. Physical History: 1. Date of erection: 1916-17. Bogk purchased the lot from Charles L. and Jane M. Blanchard in November, 1915, and applied for a building permit (No. 11585) on August 18, 1916. By September of that year the foundation had been finished, and by late September, 1917, the house was all but complete. 2. Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright 3. Original and subsequent owners: The residence was built for Frederick C, Bogk and after his death in April, 1936, it belonged to his widow Katherine. The executors of her will sold the house to Joseph and Ann E. Pokorny in 1954, and one year later the Eisners bought it. 4. Builders and suppliers: They are not listed on the building permit, and recent efforts to learn their identities have met with little success. It is known, however, that the hardware was supplied by Builders Hardware Co. of Milwaukee, and it may be assumed that the paint came from the Bogk family firm, the Ricketson Mineral Paint Works, of which F. C. Bogk was secretary- treasurer in 1916-17. 5. Original plans: Most of the working drawings are stated to be on file at Taliesen West. The Eisners have prints of twelve sheets, including three plans, elevations, • 105 F. C. BOGK HOUSE HABS Ho. WIS-252 (Page 2) sections, and several details. They also own three pencil and wash perspective studies by Wright, two of them (exterior and living room) apparently reflecting the architect's original conception for the house, the third one, an exterior, more closely resembling the residence as built. 6. Alterations and additions: All changes in the fabric have been relatively minor ones. Building permits, which may be incomplete, record no alterations until the mid- 1950s. During the brief tenure of Joseph Pokorny, according to Mrs. Eisner, the bathroom near the main entry was created (in a space originally used as a closet). Since the Eisners purchased the house, it has undergone careful remodelling and redecoration, directed by Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesen Associated Architects of the Frank Lloyd Wright Founda- tion. The sbill-unfinished project has thus far seen: repairs to the exterior; creation of a new entrance off the south alcove, main level (a door replaced the original window in this area); recarpeting and repainting of the living and dining areas; installation of several valances and changes in the lighting fixtures in these areas; addition of a built-in bookcase in the passage between dining area, foyer, and kitchen; remodelling of the kitchen (new cabinets and flooring); installation of several valances and ceiling lights on the second story; and installation of a guard railing at the top of the rear stairway, second floor.