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Intruders in Frank Lloyd Wright buildings
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s March, which makes me think about the start of the Taliesin tour season on weekends next month. But the people in the photo above aren’t Taliesin intruders. Someone took it in from 1957 when the Wrights and Taliesin Fellowship opened up the grounds for Spring Green’s Centennial. They allowed locals to walk all over. […]
Last Design by Frank Lloyd Wright
Reading Time: 6 minutesp.s.: I’m not saying this building is the last Wright. Because I’m scrappy I’m showing a photo I already had of a post-Wright building: the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center. The last design… The final house…. This is almost a marketing term, like the “(W)Right” choice, etc.1 as if this will somehow bring you closer […]
Where Frank Lloyd Wright was sitting when this photograph was taken
Reading Time: 6 minutesEvery one (like in the caption of the photo above) is wrong when they tell you that Wright was in Chicago or on a set. p.s.: it’s Taliesin. I know because it’s me, remember? The photo shows presenter Hugh Downs and Wright sitting during Downs’ interview with the architect in “Conversations with Elder Wise Men” […]
Connections between Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theater and Unity Temple
Reading Time: 6 minutesPhoto by Bmzuckerman. Looking south over the two seating areas in the newly-restored Hillside Theater. Today I’m going to be talking about the Hillside structure on the Taliesin estate. That’s because not long ago I saw a connection to the Sanctuary in Unity Temple, Oak Park. That is: I saw a link between the Hillside […]
What Did Frank Lloyd Wright Do For Fun?
Reading Time: 5 minutesWright on a horse at the Hillside Home School, next to the Assembly Hall. Taliesin Fellowship member, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer took this photograph and dated it to September 1951. Fellowship apprentice, Joe Fabris, is wearing the t-shirt while Wright’s wife Olgivanna stands on the right. I don’t mean “change Taliesin, draw pictures, and charge his […]
Hydroelectricity at Taliesin’s Dam
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe photograph above looks (plan) south at the hydroelectrical plant at that serviced Taliesin. In today’s post I’ll be talking about when it appeared. On Halloween 100 years ago John J. Hoppes, president of the Hoppes Water Wheel Company (Springfield, OH) wrote to Wright: Dear Sir:- We have your order of October 23rd for […]
More Changes at Taliesin’s Old Dining Room:
Reading Time: 5 minutesLooking (plan) east toward the old dining rooms at Taliesin. The group dining room for Wright’s apprentices was behind the French doors on the left and the tall windows to the right of the tree branches. The stone wall you can see in the background is the edge of the retaining wall of Taliesin’s Hill […]
Smoking and Frank Lloyd Wright
Reading Time: 5 minutesPhoto of Wright by the photographer Yousuf Karsh. His photos of notable people have become as famous as the subjects pictured. I have been unsuccessfully trying to figure out why I wanted to write this post: Wright and Smoking in September. The only thing I can think is that it has something to do with […]
Solomon Guggenheim at Taliesin
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhoto of Wright and apprentices in the Taliesin Fellowship at Hillside with the model of the Guggenheim Museum. A couple of weeks ago I met with a Taliesin tour guide regarding details about the 1914 murders there. He wanted to meet because he was going to miss my presentation on the Myths of the 1914 […]
The tendrils of Taliesin’s 1914 fire
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe photo above shows Taliesin after the murders and fire there on August 15, 1914. August for me in my small town in Wisconsin often includes remembering Taliesin’s 1914 fire. Therefore, on this blog, you’ve seen my posts explaining the fire, and Mamah (and one with some snark). Plus, last year I posted statements that […]
