NOTES
INTRODUCTION
1. Neutra, Life and Shape.
2. Ibid., 185.
3. Ibid., 181.
4. Ibid., 186.
5. Wilson and Robinson, Prairie School in Iowa, 10–16.
6. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 53.
7. Schmitt et al., Mason City, Iowa.
8. Gebhard and Mansheim, Buildings of Iowa.
9. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour.
10. Gebhard and Mansheim, Buildings of Iowa.
11. Sullivan, “Tall Office Building.”
12. Behrens, “How Form Functions.”
13. Bayley, Conran Directory, 6.
14. Ibid.
CHAPTER 1
15. Rooney, “World Series Earthquake,” 17.
16. Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, 272.
17. West, “Japs Abolished,” 5.
18. Behrens, “Merle Armitage.”
19. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 20.
20. Ibid., 11.
21. Wright, “Fireproof House.”
22. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 21.
23. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 52.
24. Ibid., 53.
25. Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, 202–22.
26. Gill, Many Masks, 198–99.
27. Rodeghier, “Iowa’s ‘River City.’”
28. Gill, Many Masks, 204.
29. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 26.
30. Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright, 137–40.
31. McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 97.
32. Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten.
33. Hubbard, White Hyacinths, 74.
34. Champney, Art and Glory, 1968.
35. Behrens, False Colors.
36. Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten.
37. Ibid., 93.
38. Gill, Many Masks, 23.
39. Ibid., 25.
40. Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, 79.
41. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 5.
42. McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 10.
43. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 5-6.
44. McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 18.
45. Wright, Autobiography, 13.
46. Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten.
47. Ibid., 84–87.
48. Fuller, I Seem to Be a Verb, 1.
49. Ibid.
50. Kaufmann and Raeburn, Frank Lloyd Wright, 19.
51. Ibid., 106.
52. James, Principles of Psychology, 1:350.
53. Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten, 138.
54. Ibid., 46–48.
55. Wright, Autobiography, 16.
56. Thoreau, Walden, 224.
57. Meehan, Master Architect, 292.
58. Ibid., 307.
59. Ibid.
60. Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright, 11–12.
61. Wright, Autobiography.
62. Ibid.
63. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 96.
64. Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright, 73–78.
65. Bayley, Conran Directory, 90–91.
66. Ibid., 191.
67. Ibid., 236.
68. Alofsin, Frank Lloyd Wright, 35–40.
69. Ibid.
70. Ibid., 12–16.
71. Kuty, “Melding Architecture,” 80–85.
72. Gill, Many Masks, 198–09.
73. Ibid., 179–80.
74. Quoted in Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel, 23.
75. Hurley, “Poetic Spaces.”
76. Wright, Ausgefuhrte.
77. Nute, Wright and Japan, 80.
78. Quoted in Terkel, Division Street, 286.
79. Wright, Ausgefuhrte.
80. Stern, Against Fashion, 13; Hurley, “Poetic Spaces.”
81. Stern, Against Fashion, 11–22.
82. Ibid., 13.
83. Fischer, Klimt and Flöge; Stern, Against Fashion, 23–28.
84. Hanks, Decorative Designs, 24–26; Stern, Against Fashion, 13.
85. Kaufmann and Raeburnm, Frank Lloyd Wright, 49.
86. Ibid.
87. Ibid.
88. Secrest, Frank Lloyd Wright, 217–22.
89. Gill, Many Masks, 229–34.
90. Ibid., 232.
91. Ibid., 229.
CHAPTER 2
92. Sage, History of Iowa.
93. Kantor, Spirit Lake.
94. McKean, “Joseph Paxton.”
95. Ibid.
96. Ibid.
97. Bayley, Conran Directory, 166.
98. Jones, Grammar of Ornament.
99. Ibid., 5–8.
100. McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 34.
101. Jones, Grammar of Ornament, 5.
102. Kaufmann and Raeburn, Frank Lloyd Wright, 296–97.
103. Tafel, About Wright, 91.
104. Kaufmann and Raeburn, Frank Lloyd Wright, 75.
105. Ibid., 104.
106. Hoffmann, Frank Lloyd Wright, 18.
107. Sigur, Influence of Japanese Art.
108. Nute, Frank Lloyd Wright, 11ff.
109. Ibid., 13.
110. Ibid., 21.
111. Meech, Frank Lloyd Wright, 21.
112. Dow, Composition.
113. Okakura, Book of Tea.
114. Dow, Composition, 103.
115. Quoted in Nute, Frank Lloyd Wright, 95.
116. Behrens, “How Form Functions” and False Colors.
117. Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture.
118. Hale, Old Way of Seeing, 47.
119. Ibid., 56.
120. Quoted in Hanks, Decorative Designs, 80.
121. Ibid., 54.
122. Introduction to Dow, Composition, 28.
123. Nute, Frank Lloyd Wright, 22–23.
124. Manson, Frank Lloyd Wright, 15–21.
125. Nute, Frank Lloyd Wright.
126. Ibid., 3.
127. Ibid.
128. Ibid., 4.
129. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 2.
130. Ibid., 4.
131. Ibid., 3.
132. Ibid., 2–3.
133. Patterson, Frank Lloyd Wright, 177ff.
134. Johnson, Concrete Adobe.
135. Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command, 213ff.
136. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 3–4.
137.Facts About Sugar, “Mason City’s New Plant.”
138. Ibid.
139.Mason City Globe Gazette, “W.H. Baird.”
140. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 4.
141. See Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command.
142. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 4.
CHAPTER 3
143. Brooks, Prairie School Architecture, xii–xiii.
144. Wright, “City National Bank.”
145. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 9.
146. McCoy, “Rock Crest/Rock Glen,” 11.
147. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 2.
148. Sage, History of Iowa, 154.
149. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 13.
150. Willson, But He Doesn’t Know.
151. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 13.
152. Associated Press, “Iowa Crash.”
153. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 30–31.
154. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 5.
155. Buehner, “Plenty of Folks.”
156. Brosterman, Inventing Kindergarten, 46ff.
157. Patterson, Frank Lloyd Wright, 98–99.
158. Wright, “City National Bank.”
159. Ibid.
160. Ibid.
161. Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel, 17.
162. Ibid., 19.
163. Ibid., 18.
164. Schultz, Thomas and Borcherding, Wright Again, 21.
165. Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel, 2007.
166. Sage, History of Iowa, 254.
167. Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel, 29ff.
168. Ibid., 37ff.
169. Ibid., 37–38.
170. Ibid., 40.
171. Ibid., 44.
172. Ibid.
173. McCarter, Frank Lloyd Wright, 37.
174. Ibid.
175. Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel, 45.
176. Schultz, Thomas and Borcherding, Wright Again, 2012.
CHAPTER 4
177. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 38ff.
178. Ibid.
179. Bang, Melson House Revealed, 7–9.
180. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 42.
181. Ibid.
182. McCoy, “Development and Developers,” 21.
183. Neutra, Life and Shape, 179–80.
184. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 26.
185. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 43.
186. Ibid., 44.
187. Ibid., 40–41.
188. Ibid.
189. Birmingham, “‘I See Dead People.’”
190. McGregor, Grand Obsessions, 167.
191. Van Zanten, Marion Mahoney Reconsidered, 38.
192. Maldre and Kruty, Walter Burley Griffin, 33.
193. Twombly, Prairie School, 170.
194. Maldre and Kruty, Walter Burley Griffin, 20.
195. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 44.
196. Mahony Griffin, “Magic of America.”
197. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 45.
198. Ibid., 46.
199. McGregor, Grand Obsessions, 159.
200. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 46.
201. Ibid., 69ff.
202. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 59.
203. Ibid., 57.
204. Brooks, Prairie School, 256.
205. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 71.
206. Ibid., 74ff.
207. Ibid., 74–75.
208. Ibid., 55.
209. Ibid., 82.
210. Ibid., 80ff.
211. Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel, 40.
212. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 83.
213. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 20.
214. Ibid., 30.
215. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 85.
216. Gebhard and Mansheim, Buildings of Iowa, 413,
217. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 85.
218. Fergus Falls (MN) Daily Journal, “Body of Local Man.”
219. Haun, Historic Park Inn Hotel.
220. Kruty, “Melding Architecture,” 59ff.
221. McCoy and Smith, Mason City Walking Tour, 58.
222. Brooks, Prairie School, 244.
223. Hurley, “Poetic Spaces,” 64.
224. Bang, Melson House Revealed, 14.
225. Ibid., 18.
226. Ibid.
227. Weirick, “The New—,” 52.
228. Ibid.
229. Gripper, “Angels in the Architecture.
230. Quoted in New York Times, Sunday, June 2, 1912.
231. Wright, Autobiography, 168.
232. Birmingham, “‘I See Dead People,’” 144.
233. Terkel, Division Street, 249.
234. Scan of the message side of a handwritten postcard (dated 1941) to Markley from Frank Lloyd Wright, https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22407/lot/84.