The inspiration

Among other things, I owe my first exposure of Frank Lloyd Wright to my freshman college year American history professor.  A small town girl, coming from rural South Carolina to attend an all women's college in Atlanta, I had a lot to learn over those four years.  I'm glad to claim among those things the seeds of interest in FLW and his Prairie Style of architecture.  

My first real life experience was perhaps his most famous, Fallingwater.  Ever since, when I travel close to one of his buildings, I make a stop.  

An avid armchair traveler, late last year I ran across mention of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail in southern Wisconsin and began planning a trip for my husband Paul and me.  Starting out in Milwaukee and continuing west to Richland Center, the highlight of the self-guided trail must be his home and architecture school Taliesan, in Spring Green. Because of the limits of available opening hours, I will miss at least one site at the end of the trail, the A.D. German Warehouse, though I am hoping to, at least, get a glance and snap a few pictures of the Wyoming Valley School, just three miles away from Taliesan, the only public elementary school designed by FLW, originally constructed in honor of his mother.  It will be closed for tours on the day of our time in that area, so a picture, perhaps from afar, will have to do.  The A.D. German Warehouse is also closed that day, but it is a bit further afield...and we have a four-hour drive to make a date with a secluded cabin in Door County where we'll spend five days recuperating and rediscovering this other jewel of Wisconsin, albeit not connected to Mr. Wright.

We set off in about a week, and while I'm no FLW expert by any claim, I'll be sharing photos and thoughts about this particular selection of the amazingly prolific body of work of America's premier architect.

Taliesan