The Larkin Administration Building was an office building at 680 Seneca Street in Buffalo, New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Larkin Soap Company and completed in 1906 as Wright's first major commercial commission. The building combined a six-story main block with a five-story annex around a central light well, built of brick with ornamental sculpture by Richard Bock, and it introduced early innovations including built-in steel furniture, air circulation and cooling, and some of the first metal wall-hung toilet stalls. Wright designed the interior as a single open office space lit from above, a layout that influenced later open-plan office design. The building fell out of use after the company's decline and was demolished in 1950.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own account680 Seneca Street, Buffalo, New York, United States 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own accountThe building was demolished in 1950; 1906 is the completion year of Wright's first commercial commission. Classification
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Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
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An early Wright work associated with the Prairie School.
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The Larkin Administration Building (a.k.a. the Larkin Building or Administration Building) was an office building at 680 Seneca Street in Buffalo, New York, United States. Constructed for the Larkin Soap Company, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with ornamentation by the sculptor Richard Bock. The building, Wright's first-ever commercial design, was completed in 1906 and demolished in 1950. It was composed of a six-story main building and a five-story annex, connected by a shorter entrance pavilion at their lowest two stories.
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The Larkin Administration Building was an office building at 680 Seneca Street in Buffalo, New York, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Larkin Soap Company and completed in 1906 as Wright's first major commercial commission. The building combined a six-story main block with a five-story annex around a central light well, built of brick with ornamental sculpture by Richard Bock, and it introduced early innovations including built-in steel furniture, air circulation and cooling, and some of the first metal wall-hung toilet stalls. Wright designed the interior as a single open office space lit from above, a layout that influenced later open-plan office design. The building fell out of use after the company's decline and was demolished in 1950.
- Uses Element: Sandstone, infobox material field: Brick, sandstone
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- Uses Element: Brick, Infobox material field: Brick, sandstone
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