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	Larkin Administration Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The next time the Larkin Building appeared in the news was on November I, 1946, The city had owned the building for over a year with only one offer of $26,000 from an unknown prospect interested in its purchase.
		The Larkin Building set a precedent for many an office building we admire today and should be regarded not as an outmoded utilitarian structure but as a monument, if not to Mr.
		The building's plans, drawn by I. Germoney, called for an L-shaped building with frontage of 280 feet on Seneca St. and extending 280 feet to Swan St., where the frontage would be 50 feet.
	ah.bfn.org /h/larkin/admin (2426 words)

	IRRA Proceedings 2003/Welfare Capitalism In The United States: Policies, Practices, And Possibilities/Ourselves: ...
		By 1900, Larkin was one of the largest soap manufacturers in the state of New York and the largest in Buffalo.
		Larkin boys also had their own clubs such as the Larkin Young Men's Club (1912), coorganized by the Larkin YWCA; the Get There Club (1913), for boys ages 14 to 18; and, in 1914, under the direction of the Buffalo YMCA, the Larkin Boys Club, for office boys.
		Larkin Company was in the vanguard of progressive employers during the first few decades of the twentieth century.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /journals/irra/proceedings2003/stanger.html (3256 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Between 1900 and 1910, his residential designs were "Prairie Houses" (extended low buildings with shallow, sloping roofs, clean sky lines, suppressed chimneys, overhangs and terraces, using unfinished materials), so-called because the design is considered to complement the land around Chicago.
		This building had the most influence on young European architects after World War I and is called the "cornerstone of modernism." In 1910, the Wasmuth Portfolio was published, and created the first major exposure of Wright's work in Europe.
		As buildings age their structural deficiencies are increasingly revealed, and Wright's designs have not been immune from the passage of time.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frank_Lloyd_Wright (2199 words)

	The Buffalo History Works' Photograph Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Considered one of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpieces, the Larkin Administration building is an imposing structure.
		The word "Larkin" was inscribed in the concrete which faced inward toward the pillars and outward toward the large columns.
		To this day, the Larkin Administration Building can be seen as a white outline that was drawn into the decaying parking lot that replaced the building, and one brick pillar of an outer perimeter wall remains as a testament of another Buffalo legacy lost forever.
	www.buffalohistoryworks.com /photograph/others/pic49.htm (588 words)

	John D. Larkin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Larkin's father was a member; and the apparatus at their disposal was extremely limited.
		Larkin's father succeeded in climbing the slippery shingles and smothering the fire with his coat, thus saving the building, which was then deemed a most important one.
		Larkin was in Boston on business, and checking up on the local sales force, saw the young Darwin working, and raised the lad's salary from three to five dollars.
	ah.bfn.org /h/larkin/index.html (1577 words)

	National Building Museum - News Releases - 2000
		Buildings such as the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, and the Transamerica Tower are iconic structures - suggestive of the nation's economic and technological prowess - that have made indelible impressions on the modern imagination.
		New types of buildings were developed to accommodate these changes, and the office itself emerged as a showcase of innovations in design and technology.
		The National Building Museum, created by an act of Congress in 1980, is a private nonprofit institution that examines and interprets American achievements in building through exhibitions, education programs, and publications.
	www.nbm.org /Events/news/2000/On_The_Job.html (889 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright
		The Larkin Administration Building was a simple cliff of brick hermetically sealed (one of the first “air-conditioned” buildings in the country) to keep the interior space clear of the poisonous gases in the smoke from the New York Central trains that puffed along beside it.
		It was built of masonry material—brick and stone; and in terms of the straight line and flat plane the Larkin Administration Building was a genuine expression of power directly applied to purpose, in the same sense that the ocean liner, the plane or the car is so.
		Rebellious and protestant as I was myself when the Larkin Building came from me, I was conscious also that the only way to succeed, either as rebel or as protestant, was to make architecture genuine and constructive affirmation of the new Order of this Machine Age.
	www.pbs.org /flw/buildings/larkin/larkin_drawings.html (272 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy was officially organized at a June 1989 planning conference underwritten by the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin.
		Wright scholars, homeowners, building administrators, and leaders in historic preservation attended the conference.
		Wright buildings are threatened everyday by neglect, urban sprawl, and sometimes custodians who are unwilling or unable to care properly for Wright's work.
	www.westcotthouse.org /about/flwbc_ovr.htm (497 words)

	From Factory to Family: The Creation of a Corporate Culture : Business History : HBS Working Knowledge
		The story of Larkin's rapid rise from local soap producer to national mail-order company is enlivened by the involvement of two prominent turn-of-the century cultural icons and pioneers in their respective fields: Elbert Hubbard and Frank Lloyd Wright.
		John D. Larkin and his sons were located on the other end of the floor, also in semiprivate offices and close to the Seneca Street factories, where they felt most at home.
		Inscribed on the red sandstone walls of the building's interior and adorning the sculptures displayed outside were inspirational messages, written largely by William Heath, that extolled the importance and virtues of work and "declared the aspirations and identity of the Larkin Company.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item.jhtml?id=2154&t=bizhistory (1749 words)

	the Aesthetocracy
		701 Seneca is building N of the former Larkin complex.
		Building N is a million square feet over eight floors.
		In front of my building is a parking lot that used to be Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building.
	www.aesthetocracy.com /studio (296 words)

	Wright: Bio
		He praised the virtues of an organic architecture that would use reinforced concrete in the configurations found in sea shells and snails and would build skyscrapers the way trees were "built"; that is, with a central "trunk" deeply rooted in the ground and floors cantilevered from that trunk, like branches.
		Spaces within such buildings would be animated by natural light allowed to penetrate the interiors and to travel across textured surfaces as the angle of sunlight and moonlight changed.
		The most spectacular buildings of his mature period were based on forms borrowed from nature, and the intentions were clearly romantic, poetic, and intensely personal.
	www.lexised.com /architecture/wright/bio.html (670 words)

	Wright Works
		Then, when the architect was sixty-nine, came Fallingwater, the Johnson Administration Building, and the Usonian home concept all in one year, and Wingspread a year later.
		Among the firsts of the Larkin Building are use of air conditioning and plate glass.
		The building had been, for several years, subdivided into three apartments when, in 1945, it was restored to single-family usage.
	www.ds.arch.tue.nl /education/students/MultiMedia/FallingWater/FLWORKS.HTM (1561 words)

	Fetzer Winery Administration Building - Valley Architects - Great Buildings Online
		Nestled amid colorful gardens, the building exists in picturesque shaded light, with a trellise gently shading its south side and a large overhanging roof accounting for the buidling's dominant form and function.
		Made from a variation on the rammed-earth-construction technique, Fetzer's new building is designed to be as self-sufficient as possible while adhering to California's conservation and seismic stability-minded energy and building codes.
		"The building is a form of rammed-earth, but in fact it's a refinement of it in that you only have to build one form, compared to traditional rammed-earth, where you usually build two forms and ram the earth into it.
	www.greatbuildings.com /buildings/Fetzer_Winery_Admin.html (603 words)

	MMD Archives: Larkin Building Reproducer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the early 1900's Frank Lloyd Wright designed a unique administration building for Larkin that had a huge atrium that was open on the many floors to the offices, which, incidentally, used steel filing cabinets and had an early type of air-conditioning.
		Larkin decided that he wanted a large concert organ installed in the atrium and the original contract for the Moller organ called for a 94 rank instrument, a 9-foot Chickering grand piano AMPICO wired into the organ, and a roll-playing device with 100 organ rolls.
		Needless to say, these organ rolls were unique because they were hand-registered for the Larkin organ and from the old-timers whom I interviewed for my article on the Moller Artiste, these rolls were stunning in their effect.
	www.mmdigest.com /Archives/Digests/199603/1996.03.06.05.html (515 words)

	Larkin Co. enthusiasts preserve wall remnant - 2003-07-21
		It's the last remnant of what some say was one of the 20th century's greatest structures, the Larkin Administration Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1906.
		The wall, which was one of four ornamental "piers" of the Larkin building, is in fairly good condition but needs to have some bricks and mortar replaced and repaired to seal out water, he said.
		Also on display will be a cast iron replica of the Larkin Administration Building that was found three years ago among the debris near the wall.
	www.bizjournals.com /buffalo/stories/2003/07/21/story7.html (885 words)

	Blueprints Magazine, Winter 2001, page 2
		A predominantly female workforce informed Frank Lloyd Wright's design for the unprecedented Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, N.Y. Conceived as the headquarters for the soap company's mail-order business, Larkin was the first office building to integrate innovations in architecture with progressive management philosophy, mechanical systems, spatial distribution, and furniture.
		Computer rendering of Frank Lloyd Wright's 1906 Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, N.Y. In spite of national outcry, the building was demolished in 1950.
		Wright's Larkin Building established the office building as a testing ground for technological and design innovation.
	www.nbm.org /blueprints/00s/winter01/page2/page2.htm (2027 words)

	Houston Architecture Info Forum > Frank Lloyd Wright
		At the Martin house, which is open for tours during its renovation, the geometry that forms the buildings' outer walls is reprised in the smallest window and furniture patterns.
		The building is intended to attract visitors to the nonprofit Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum, a trove of automotive memorabilia that was collected mostly by James Sandoro, a Buffalo native who made his fortune selling classic cars at auction.
		Sure, his roofs leaked, he often under-engineered buildings (his construction crews were known for adding extra reinforcement to the cantilevered designs while he was off site), and his furniture was more about art and design than comfort and practicality.
	www.houstonarchitecture.info /haif/lofiversion/index.php/t187.html (2753 words)

	LA OBSCURA: Frank Lloyd Wright Biography
		Roofs and balconies gradually became flat, hovering slabs, and a geometric interplay between verticals and horizontals replaced an emphais upon wall.
		Even his non-residential work reflected this development: the Larkin Administration Building and Unity Temple reiterated geometric shapes and the uselessness of a visible roof.
		A circular spiral of a building, the Guggenheim became an icon of New York architecture.
	www.usc.edu /dept/architecture/shulman/architects/wright (304 words)

	Report of the Socialist Party of Ireland
		In the industrial struggle between 1907 and 1914, its members were the unpaid propagandists of direct action who welcomed the work of James Larkin in founding the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union established in 1909 to be an industrial union of Irish workers.
		During the 1913-14 lock-out the savage attacks by the police upon the workers had led to the formation of the Irish Citizen Army; a military force composed solely of workers for the protection of the people from capitalist violence.
		It has rejected always the idea of political administration of social industry and regarded participation in electoral struggles as a means of propaganda only.
	www.workersrepublic.org /Pages/Ireland/Communism/spireport1.html (2193 words)

	MMD Archives: Larkin Administration Building (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Larkins originally purchased the organ from Moller with the understanding that they would be getting a fully automatic reproducing player organ unit.
		Larkin even gave him a room in the building to lay out the rolls.
		The Larkin organ was played frequently over the radio and there were several AGO meetings in the building.
	www.mmdigest.com /Archives/Digests/199603/1996.03.06.06.html (293 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright - New York (All Wright Site FLW Building Guide)
		Please see the Building Guide main page for more information on how the Building Guide is organized.
		A building pier from the building is still at the site, and sometime during 1997 the outline of the original footprint of the building had been painted on the parking lot that is there now.
		In the historic postcard-style image to the left, the Larkin Building is the building to the right, in the foreground (not the huge factory buildings).
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/1469/flw_ny.html (1150 words)

	Wright on the Web: Non-Residential Buildings, 1900-1920
		Wright's basic philosophy of architecture was stated primarily through the house form, and he had few major commissions for public buildings, office buildings or skyscrapers in the early years.
		The Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo, New York (1903) was his only large-scale structure prior to the Midway Gardens in Chicago (1913) and the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (1915-16).
		The Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo and Unity Church in Oak Park, Illinois (1904) are considered highly important works, and, with the prairie houses, earned him acclaim in Europe where exhibitions of his work hastened the demise of Art Nouveau and stimulated younger architects to seek a new direction.
	www.delmars.com /wright/flw3.htm (216 words)

	Frank Lloyd Wright
		he Larkin building was a building that was built for the administrative staff of the Larkin Soap Manufacturing Company, actually for their mail order business and so it was really a secretarial pool type space.
		And what Wright was trying to do in that was to create a modern building that would give the workers a sense of what he called a family gathering place.
		And what he did there, which I think is really astounding and unfortunately it’s gone now as many know...is the fact that the interior is opened up into what, today, we would call an atrium-like space which in effect does for the office building what the hearth or the fireplace did for the family home.
	www.pbs.org /flw/buildings/larkin/larkin_interior.html (174 words)

	The Larkin Administration Building. \| MetaFilter
		Here is a nice image of the Larkin building.
		I might quibble with the "most signifigant demolition" remark (Penn Station comes to mind), but Larkin had such a profound affect on the planning of office buildings, that it definitely belongs in the top ten list of stupid demolition mistakes.
		A similar structure in many ways to Larkin was the 1906 Unity Temple in Oak Park.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/36171 (702 words)

	LARKIN BUILDING
		The entrances of the building were flanked by two waterfall-like
		Because of the rapid elevator in the building and the large expanse of
		Larkin Building was vacant its final seven years, and the only remaining
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	Wright on the Web Bookstore: Works of Frank Lloyd Wright
		Each building is presented from conceptual sketch, plan or drawing to finished work and accompanied by an in-depth essay detailing the development of the work, with extensive quotes from Wright's writings, unpublished talks, and private letters.
		For extant buildings, entirely new color photographs have been taken for this volume, while demolished buildings are represented by rare archival photographs.
		The building was demolished in the late 1960s, though the lobby was reconstructed at an architectural museum in Nagoya.
	www.netserves.com /flw/flwbook1.htm (3098 words)

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	Into 20th Century
		The omission of solid elements at the corners of the structure heightens the impression of the building as a glass-enclosed, transparent volume.
		He praised the virtues of an organic architecture that would use reinforced concrete in the configurations found in seashells and snails and would build skyscrapers the way trees were "built"--that is, with a central "trunk" deeply rooted in the ground and floors cantilevered from that trunk like branches.
		Spaces within such buildings would be animated by natural light allowed to penetrate the interiors and to travel across textured surfaces as the incidence of sunlight and moonlight changed.
	cs.clark.edu /~hum101/Humanities_101/twentieth_century.htm (12744 words)

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