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A drawing of the main floor of Taliesin, 1936-39. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York), Number 2501.048.

The Chronologies—my detailed history of Taliesin

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe drawing above shows the main floor of Taliesin where Wright lived, 1936-39. This is one of my favorite Taliesin drawings. Why? Because it actually shows the space pretty much as it existed at that time. In this case, I’m talking about Taliesin the building, not Taliesin the estate.             I mean: the UNESCO site, […]

 

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Taliesin Hill Tower in the Milton Nicholls Collection at the National Library of Australia. nla.pic-vn3603884-s835-v

Hill Tower at Taliesin

Reading Time: 5 minutesAn unknown woman stands in the Hill Garden of Taliesin with the Hill Tower behind her. Either Marion Mahoney Griffen or husband Walter Burley Griffin took the photo, 1920-24. The Griffins met while working in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park studio. I can’t tell if the woman is Marion, who would have been in her […]

 

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Photograph by Keiran Murphy, September 1, 2003.

The Abandoned Stairway at Taliesin

Reading Time: 6 minutesI was working on my Taliesin Book1 and thought up another change at Taliesin I should write about. So today I’m going to write about what you see in the photo at the top of this post. The photo shows a stairway that used to take you from Taliesin’s Guest Wing (the first floor) up […]

 

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