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Located in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin near Spring Green, Taliesin is the name of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 37,000-square-foot home, studio, school, and 800-acre estate that includes buildings from nearly every decade of Wright’s career from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Taliesin (/ ˌ t æ l i ˈ ɛ s ɪ n /), sometimes known as Taliesin East, Taliesin Spring Green, or Taliesin North after 1937, is a historic property located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the village of Spring Green, Wisconsin, United States.
What is Taliesin? Located near Spring Green, Wisconsin, about an hour from Madison, Taliesin is the former home and studio of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In 1914, the living quarters of Taliesin were destroyed by an intentionally set and deadly fire, a horrific tragedy that also took the lives of seven people, including Wright’s companion and her two children. Initially too devastated to think about rebuilding, Wright retreated to the adjacent studio.
TALIESIN. Wright’s home, studio, and garden sanctuary was a laboratory for architecture and design. In its three iterations, Taliesin embodies Wright’s ideas of organic architecture, expanded and refined from his earlier Prairie School works.
Take a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's home, studio and 800 acre property in Spring Green, Wisconsin. We have multiple tour offerings. Riverview Terrace Cafe is closed for the season.
Explore Taliesin, the extraordinary home, studio, and 800-acre property of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Taliesin is located in the Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin and includes buildings from nearly every decade of his career from the 1890s to the 1950s.
Taliesin, the home, studio and country estate of Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in the hilly Driftless Region of southwestern Wisconsin near Spring Green. It is the name of Wright’s house as well as the 800-acre estate that includes buildings from all decades of Wright’s career.
Frank Lloyd Wright House, Studio, and Farm, “Taliesin”. After their extended tryst in Europe, Wright and Mamah Borthwick returned to Chicago where Wright had plans to build a townhouse in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood.
Taliesin features many architectural elements that became Wright’s trademarks: the cantilever roofs, wide windows and an open floor plan. Wright would rebuild the house twice, following significant fire damage in 1914 and 1925.