Building Taliesin
Subtitle: Frank Lloyd Wright's home of love and loss
By: Ron McCrea
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Madison, Wisconsin
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780870206061
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Taliesin (Spring Green, Wis.); ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial; ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945); ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical; PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers; ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General; Homes and haunts; ARCHITECTURE / General; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); ARCHITECTURE / History / General; ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential; ARCHITECTURE / Regional; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Description: "Through letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a stunning assemblage of photographs - many of which have never before been published - author Ron McCrea tells the fascinating story of the building of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin, which would be the architect's principal residence for the rest of his life. Photos taken by Wright's associates show rare views of Taliesin under construction and illustrate Wright's own recollections of the first summer there and the craftsmen who worked on the site. The book also brings to life Wright's "kindred spirit," "she for whom Taliesin had first taken form," Mamah Borthwick. Wright and Borthwick had each abandoned their families to be together, causing a scandal that reverberated far beyond Wright's beloved Wisconsin valley. The shocking murder and fire that took place at Taliesin in August 1914 brought this first phase of life at Taliesin to a tragic end"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.