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Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering – Historic Reproduction

Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering, 1925 — historic drawing
Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering, 1925. Historic drawing from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Architectural drawing for an automobile objective for Gordon Strong, Sugar Loaf Mountain, Montgomery County, Maryland. Perspective rendering

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Wright's perspective rendering shows a mountaintop motor destination on Sugar Loaf Mountain in Montgomery County, Maryland, with a mooring mast among the features listed in its subject headings. Drawn in graphite and colored pencil in 1925 for the developer Gordon Strong, it presents the "automobile objective," a planned goal for weekend drivers who would climb the mountain to see the view. Strong's project was never built, but the drawing preserves Wright's ambitions for uniting architecture, landscape and the new culture of the automobile. Wright's signature chop on the sheet confirms its origin in his Chicago office.

Created / published1925
Medium1 item : graphite and colored pencil ; in folder 71 x 102 cm.
GenreArchitectural drawings 1920-1930.Landscape architecture drawings 1920-1930.Renderings 1920-1930.
NotesUNIT title devised. Includes Wright's chop. Client's name from Frank Lloyd Wright : designs for an American landscape, 1922-1932 / David G. De Long, general editor, 1996. Gift; Donald D. Walker; 1989; (DLC/PP-1989:152.16). Finding aid (unpublished): Filed by UNIT number, available in Prints and Photographs Reading Room.
SubjectsMooring masts--Maryland--Sugar Loaf Mountain--1920-1930. Sports & recreation facilities--Maryland--Sugar Loaf Mountain--1920-1930. Automobiles--Maryland--Sugar Loaf Mountain--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,293 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183117

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