I traveled to Wisconsin this past Friday to visit mom & dad (it was their 34th wedding anniversary) and to drop off Otis (I'm traveling to San Fran for work this next week and mom & dad are playing dog-sitters).
Since I was already going to be in Wisconsin, I decided to turn it into a fun day trip. So, Saturday morning, I drove two hours to southwestern WI - the town of Spring Green - to see Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin estate and Hillside School & Theatre.
It was a beautiful fall day and I took a ton of pictures of the beautiful landscape and architecture - but pictures don't come close to showing how amazing it was. The Taliesin home has 37,000 square feet of interior space - that's like 25 times the size of my condo. :) The name "Taliesin" is a Welsh word for "shining brow" - which is significant because the estate was built into the brow of the hilltop. Wright built the home into the hill rather on top of it - his philosophy, "why ruin the best part of nature by building on top of it?"
After seeing the home & studio, I drove over to Unity Chapel, which is the Lloyd-Jones family church and the site of Wright's first grave. It is also where his mistress, Martha Borthwick Cheney was buried after the fire at Taliesin. When she died, Wright planted a white pine tree in her honor - the pine has lasted the test of time - growing to over 100 feet tall.
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