According to Robert Burley, the architect and executive director of the Taliesin Preservation Commission, an independent agency created by the state of Wisconsin to supervise the restoration of Wright's residence, restoring Taliesin will cost around $24 million. The majority of this sum will be used to restore the exterior of the building with some additional funds being set aside for interior renovations. Taliesin was built between 1932 and 1935. Construction costs were not recorded at the time, but historians estimate they were probably around $150,000 ($1.5 million in today's money). The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for himself and his wife, Marie Louise "Fannie" Johnson Wright. They met while Fannie was a student at the School of Architecture at the University of Cincinnati. Her family was well-off and willing to invest in Wright's career. He had just become famous for designing buildings such as the Holly House in Oak Park, Illinois, and the Robie House in Chicago, both listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wright moved to Spring Green, Wisconsin, in 1933 where he began work on Taliesin. He spent the next three years traveling back and forth between Wisconsin and Arizona, where he had found work as a freelance architect. In 1936, Wright returned to Spring Green to live out his life there.