Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: Arizona Biltmore Hotel
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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Arizona Biltmore Hotel
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Image View:
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Coffee house, close view of southeast corner
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Creator:
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Albert Chase McArthur (American architect, 1881-1951); Frank Lloyd Wright (American consulting architect, 1867-1959)
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Location:
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site: Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Location Note:
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2400 East Missouri Avenue
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Date:
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opened Feb. 23, 1929 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Modernist; Modern
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Work Type 1:
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hotel (public accommodation)
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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masonry block
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; commercial
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Description:
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The Arizona Biltmore's architect of record is Albert Chase McArthur, yet its authorship is often mistakenly attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright, owing to Wright's on-site consulting for four months in 1928 relating to the masonry unit "Textile Block" construction. Some visitors say the hotel has the look and feel of a Wright building, especially in the main lobby, likely owing to a strong imprint of the unit block design that Wright had utilized on four residential buildings in the Los Angeles area some 6 years earlier. McArthur is indisputably the architect as original linen drawings of the hotel in the Arizona State University Library archives attest, as does the 1929 feature article in Architectural Record magazine. The two architects are a study in contrast with the famous and outspoken Wright being self taught and never licensed as an architect in Arizona. The more soft spoken McArthur was Harvard trained in architecture, mathematics, engineering, and music. McArthur obtained an architect's license in Arizo
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Three
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Identifier:
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1A1-MAC-AB-C2
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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