Looking at the Romeo and Juliet Windmill from Hillside II Romeo and Juliet is named because if you look at the vertical cross section, it is a hexagon mated to a diamond. This cross section gives the building its strength. It survived from its building in 1896 until 1989 when it was completely renovated. It …
It was a foggy, early morning It has been written that Frank Lloyd Wright was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. (It has also been written that he wasn’t). The building you see above is the one building that he designed in the town that was famed to be his birthplace. According to Storrer, Albert Dell …
Gates to the Seth Peterson Cottage This is Mr. Wright’s smallest residential commmission. Storrer lists it at only 880 square feet. It is constructed of local sandstone and mahogany plywood on the shores of Mirror Lake. The cottage was still under construction when Mr. Wright died in 1959. It was completed by the Taliesin Architects …
Wright’s sister Jane and her husband Andrew Porter commissioned this house Wright designed this home for his sister in 1907, well into the time that he was building grand prairie style homes. Jane didn’t like the prairie style. She preferred the older “Fireproof House for $5000” style that Wright had been building years before. It …
This is certainly one of the most dramatic Wright buildings in existence. When talking with one of the docents on the tour, she wondered why it didn’tshow up in more Wright publications. I didn’t have an answer for her onthat, but I know that on the three main publications that it is a part of, iteither …
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What kind of Frank Lloyd Wright fan would I be if I didn’t havemy Taliesin photos up on my web site??? A forgetful one. In allthe moving and re-organizing that we’ve done around the house, I lost a box thathad most of my Taliesin photos in it. A Few Interior Photos 2004 Photos River Terrace …
The corner Unit. Built in 1916, this was one of 4 duplex apartment buildings thatwere built next to each other. The others are still standing, though thiswas by far the most attractive of them all. As I look back at this photo afew years after I took it, I realize that I believe the photo …
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Hardy House from the shore of Lake Michigan The Thomas Hardy house was built by Wright in 1905 for the Mayor of Racine, Wisconsin. It sits on a hill overlooking Lake Michigan. Many large trees block much of its view, but they also give it privacy. Hardy house from the sidewalk. This demonstrates Wright’s desire …
When I first saw photos of this home, I rushed to read what Storrersaid about it. I’d heard stories about it, but I wanted the facts… andStorrer’s book “A Frank Lloyd Wright Companion” is the definitivefactual work about Mr. Wright’s work. Exterior view What I found in my reading was that Mr. Wright had written …
