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Banner critical of the GOP hanging in the State Capitol Building in Madison, Wisconsin at lunchtime on a Tuesday in August
Photo provided by Laura Gilbert. SFC Class Robert Gilbert and daughter Alexandria share a moment during the send off ceremony for Kuwait. Photo by Jacqueline Guthrie.
this postcard from fellow flickrite, mcbeth, is not only our first postcard from madison, wisconsin but it's also the official winner of the postcard project camera contest!
congratulations!
Inside the Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford.
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Im Inneren des Wisconsin Automotive Museum in Hartford.
driving up to Devils Lake State Park in Wisconsin last week -- the eastern/midwestern hardwood forest is SO different than out west...
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This, I believe, is the spot in Plainfield where Ed Gein's property was. I'm not a fan of serial killers (that's if he was one) or anything, but I have always been slightly fascinated with this guy's legacy to popular culture (see. Psycho, Leatherface and Buffalo Bill) and seeing as I was in Wisconsin (the state he lived in) I thought I would see if I could find the place.
My friend and I drove around for ages but couldn't find the place. So I asked in a gas station. The woman in there was really not very please with my request, apparently "The folk who own that property don't want anyone goin up there". So it looked like she wasn't going to tell me, so I told her I was from an English movie magazine taking pics for an article; so, she reluctantly told me it was over a bridge; not much to go on, but I think I found it. I knew the house had been burned down in the 50s and they had planted trees over the area. Now these trees look very deliberately planted; don't they.
Photographs of places with unsavoury histories are also hold a fascination for me. Especially as over the years they loose all trace of anything untoward. When you find out the history of a place it seems to take on a personality -it that is the right word, which I am sure it isn't.
Built in phases between 1911 and 1959, this Prairie and Organic Modern-style house and office were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright to serve as his family residence and studio, with two fires leading to substantial reconstruction of the house in 1914 and 1925. The house, which is named “Taliesin”, Welsh for “Shining Brow” or “Radiant Brow”, referring to the hill upon which it is situated, is a long and rambling structure with multiple sections built at different times, with the building serving as a living laboratory for Wright’s organic design philosophy, as well as growing with Wright’s family, wealth, and business. The house sits on a hill surrounded by fields, but is notably located below the top of the hill, which Wright saw as being such a significant feature of the landscape that it should remain untouched by the house’s presence. The house’s westernmost wings served as the home of livestock and farm equipment, as well as a garage, later becoming housing for the Taliesin Fellowship, where aspiring architects apprenticed with Frank Lloyd Wright. The central wing served as the Frank Lloyd Wright studio, where Wright and his apprentices and employees worked on projects for clients, as well as where Wright often met with clients. The eastern wing served as the Wright family’s residence, and was rebuilt twice, in 1914 and 1925, after being destroyed by fire, and is overall the newest section of the complex, though some portions of the west and central wings were added after the main phase of construction of the residence was complete.
The house is clad in stucco with a wooden shingle hipped and gabled roof, with stone cladding at the base and on piers that often flank window openings, large casement windows, clerestory windows, outdoor terraces and balconies, stone chimneys, and glass french doors, all of which connect the interior of the building to the surrounding landscape. The interior of the buildings feature vaulted ceilings in common areas, stone floors, stone and plaster walls, decorative woodwork, custom-built furniture, and multiple decorative objects collected by Wright during his life. The exterior of the house has a few areas distinctive from the rest of the structure, with a cantilevered balcony extending off the east facade drawing the eye towards the surrounding landscape from the living room of the residence, next to a large set of glass doors that enclose the living room and adjacent bedroom from a shallower cantilevered terrace, while to the west of the residence, and south of the central wing, is a landscaped garden, which rests just below the crest of the hill.
The building was the full-time home of Wright from 1911 until 1937, when Wright began to spend his winters at Taliesin West in Phoenix, Arizona, due to the effects of the Wisconsin winters on his health. For the rest of Wright’s life, the house was the summer home of Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship, and following his death, the house was deeded to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, which operated and maintained the house as a museum and the home of multiple programs until 1990. Since 1990, the house has been under the stewardship of the nonprofit Taliesin Preservation Inc., which operates the house in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The building is a contributing structure in the Taliesin Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976. Taliesin was one of eight Frank Lloyd Wright buildings listed as The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2019. Today, Taliesin is utilized as a museum, offering tours and interpretation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s life and work.
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Tuesday, February 15
2011
Took a trip to with Jason and his colleagues to the Protest this evening.
All photos by CindyH Photography, free for media use with appropriate attribution given.