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Taliesin Hill Tower in the Milton Nicholls Collection at the National Library of Australia. nla.pic-vn3603884-s835-v

Hill Tower at Taliesin

Reading Time: 5 minutesAn unknown woman stands in the Hill Garden of Taliesin with the Hill Tower behind her. Either Marion Mahoney Griffen or husband Walter Burley Griffin took the photo, 1920-24. The Griffins met while working in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park studio. I can’t tell if the woman is Marion, who would have been in her […]

 

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Photograph by Keiran Murphy, September 1, 2003.

The Abandoned Stairway at Taliesin

Reading Time: 6 minutesI was working on my Taliesin Book1 and thought up another change at Taliesin I should write about. So today I’m going to write about what you see in the photo at the top of this post. The photo shows a stairway that used to take you from Taliesin’s Guest Wing (the first floor) up […]

 

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Photo is sepia of cabin with hipped roof surrounded by trees in late fall. Property: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/MplsPhotos/id/12037/

Frank Lloyd Wright Violated the Mann Act

Reading Time: 5 minutesNo, not the first time he violated it. I wrote about that before when introducing you to the second Mrs. Wright. In this post I’ll write about the second (and last) time. As I wrote once before, information about the Mann Act is something you learn when working at Taliesin. In particular, the Mann Act […]

 

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