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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation | Jan 1, 2017
Taliesin was the longest ongoing architectural work of Wright’s career.
He never stopped changing it or adding to it. Although twice lost to fire, the residence each time rose again to embrace the brow of the hill with an ineffable aura of magic.
In 1911, after years of living in the Chicago area and an extended stay in Europe, Wright returned to the Wisconsin valley his maternal grandparents and their family had settled, near the village of Spring Green.
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Here he had spent several summers working on one of his uncle’s farms and had become deeply attached to the land. On a hill site he knew well, he began to build the home and studio he would occupy for the rest of his life. Adopting the naming tradition of the Welsh, he chose to call the house Taliesin, “shining brow,” because the house became the brow of the hill, sitting above water gardens and pasture lands.
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