Resources
Keiran on-line:
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Mitchell Rocheleau, of Rost Architects, contacted me after reading some of my work and asked me to speak with him about the Taliesin Fellowship on a podcast. You can see it under Video on this site. It the first thing on the list.
- Frank Lloyd Wright x PechaKucha LIVE. I and five other Wright owners / experts participated in the quick, fun presentation style where each participant spoke while 20 slides hold the screen for 20 seconds each. PechaKucha’s FLLW event is now on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnayxUulqTY
- “Life is Not Monotonous at Taliesin”: a Webinar through Monona Terrace Convention Center in Madison, Wisconsin during their “Wright Design Series”:
https://youtu.be/m85HK23gR5kClick here for the Monona Terrace archive of the Webinars during this series.
- An overview of Taliesin that I wrote for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in their Quarterly. This is entitled, “An Autobiography in Wood and Stone“.
- In the blog for the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation, I wrote a blog post about the Hillside Assembly Hall.
- I was asked to write on a connection between my site (Taliesin, natch) and Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, IL.
- “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin lives on“, by Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: overview of a Taliesin tour of mine.
- A video tour of Taliesin and Hillside with me from WisconsinEye Public Affairs Network.
- An interview by Carol Koby with myself and former guide, Margaret Ingraham, about Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick (his partner who was killed at Taliesin on August 15, 1914). The interview was inspired by a tour that Taliesin Preservation had created at that time, the Loving Frank tour. The tour is no longer offered.
Taliesin Photographs:
- A link to photographs that Maynard Parker took at Taliesin in 1955. The negatives belong to the Huntington Library. These photographs were used in that November’s issue of House Beautiful magazine.
They’re really yummy. Some of the photographs there at the Huntington were not published in that issue. In addition, there are copies of the photos that you see that are both in color and in black & white.
Here’s another link from the House Beautiful website that talks about Wright and his designs.
- The Flippertyhoblits took a tour of Taliesin in 2019. Their page includes some very nice photographs of Wright’s home.
Scroll down to see photographs taken of Wright’s winter home in Arizona.
Computer animation of Taliesin:
- Here is a link to the computerized rendition of Taliesin I (1911-1914) by animator, Razin Khan.
Khan has been creating digital animations of destroyed Wright buildings online for several years. This work has included a rendition of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (destroyed 1967-68) and Wright’s Larkin Administration Building in Buffalo (destroyed 1950).
- Before Khan’s work, Taliesin I was recreated digitally in black and white by illustrators Skyline Ink. The animation takes you through the known parts of Taliesin at that time, set to the music of Beethoven. The illustrators had earlier contributed work to the museum exhibit, Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind, on architect Bruce Goff.
That exhibit directly relates to their Taliesin animation: an owner of a Bruce Goff home, who has worked for years with Taliesin, started talking to the owners of Skyline Ink, which led to the idea of digitally recreating Taliesin I. Skyline Ink got to work on the animation and the Goff house owner1 asked me to help with their research (which I’m happy to say they were pleased with).
1I’d give his name, but I’m not sure how he’d feel about that.
Wright-related:
- A YouTube video of jr32, a “treasure hunter” and “explorer”, when he stumbled across Frank Lloyd Wright’s grave marker at Unity Chapel (the marker is on the Unity Chapel cemetery grounds). His reaction is delightful. The video is 4 min. long:
We accidentally found the original gravesite of Frank Lloyd Wright while exploring!
At 40 seconds in, as he’s swinging the camera around and says, “there’s nothing around” his view swings past Taliesin in the distance.
Young adult writer, Scott Westerfeld, took a tour at Taliesin with a friend, leading to their discussion on the merits, and problems, with Taliesin versus Zombies. Westerfeld enjoyed the house, which is why I can let him go by with the mistakes he made (eg: Wright never married Mamah).
- An interview of Wright’s granddaughter, Anne Baxter, with Studs Terkel (click for Terkel’s archive).
- The Wright Library at Steinerag.com, which are pages by a Frank Lloyd Wright enthusiast who has collected information about Wright, his designs, etc.: http://www.steinerag.com/flw/index.htm
History:
- I mentioned kindergarten in my piece about The Hillside Home School. The History Guy at YouTube explains kindergarten in just about 15 minutes:
- Stuff You Missed in History Class on Apple Podcast with hosts Tracy V. Wilson and Holly Frey.
A fun and interesting podcast on a variety of subjects.
From the Library of Congress. I transcribed this last year during their campaign to get people to type out writing from the LoC for which Optical Character Recognition (OCR) doesn’t work. I posted this because the writing is just beautiful to see.
Other:
He never studied under Wright, but his work is fascinating.
- The Landscape That Made Me
By Melissa Faliveno
July 28, 2020
An article about growing up in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin.
last edited September 29, 2025.
