© Mark Hertzberg (2023)
My Wright eye has been dormant for a long time. It finally woke up today, as I finish my 13th Road Scholar Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin tour as their step-on guide and “expert lecturer.” I generally look for photos other than just literal pictures of Wright’s work.
I join the tours when they get to Racine from Chicago on Wednesday, and continue with them in Milwaukee, Madison, and Spring Green through Saturday morning. It is always a challenge to find fresh photos at places I have visited so many times, especially when each stop is always at the same time of day. This time I took no photos Wednesday or Thursday. It took spectacular fall colors today – Friday – when we got to the Unitarian Meeting House in Madison to bring my camera back to life.
Then it was on to Jacobs 1. The bonus for our tour guests, which we did not tell them about in advance, was that there was a good chance that Jim Dennis, steward of the house since the 1980s as well as Bill Martinelli would greet us, and that Jim would welcome them into his home:
My first picture at the Taliesin estate after lunch was not of a Wright building…it was of the trees in front of Hillside Home School:
I found new angles for photos of the drafting studio, including the sadly empty drafting room and the Romeo and Juliet windmill:
And then it was on to the Holy Grail for our guests, Taliesin itself:
If you know me well enough you know that I cannot go to Taliesin without a visit to our dear friend Minerva Montooth. Today was no exception:
Links:
The Road Scholar trip:
https://www.roadscholar.org/find-an-adventure/22976/architectural-masterworks-of-frank-lloyd-wright
Unitarian Meeting House:
https://fusmadison.org/welcome/meeting-house/
Taliesin:
https://www.taliesinpreservation.org
Minerva Montooth:
https://wrightinracine.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/the-marvelous-minerva-montooth/
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Wright in Racine 