Taliesin (studio) facts for kids
Taliesin near Spring Green, Wisconsin, was the summer home of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright began the building in 1911 after leaving his first wife, Catherine Tobin, and his Oak Park, Illinois, home and studio in 1909.
The impetus behind Wright's departure was his affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney, who had been his client, along with her husband, Edwin Cheney. His winter home, Taliesin West, is located in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Some of the buildings designed at Taliesin were Fallingwater, the Guggenheim Museum, the Johnson Wax Headquarters, and the first Usonian home, the first Herbert and Katherine Jacobs house, in Madison, Wisconsin (1936).
Images for kids
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An early photograph of Taliesin, taken during its first winter, 1911–12
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It's believed the man on the left is Frank Lloyd Wright, surveying the damage after the fire.
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The courtyard of Taliesin II
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Starting in 1937, Wright wintered at Taliesin West in Arizona.
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Taliesin in winter
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Wright's Riverview Terrace Restaurant (1953), used as a visitor's center by TPI since 1993
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Wright designed the second Hillside Home School in 1901, alongside an earlier school he designed in 1887.
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An aerial view of Taliesin
See also
In Spanish: Casa Taliesin para niños
