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Plenty of color on the head end helps make for a nicely contrasted look on CP #291 on the outskirts of Wisconsin Dells on June 1, 2009.
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.
Black-cappe Chickadee navigating the branches of a tree in the side yard of my house in Madison, Wisconsin one December afternoon in 2012
Dentists from western Wisconsin and Marquette University School of Dentistry students met with several of the area’s state legislators during visits to the Capitol on WDA Legislative Day 2012. Legislators present for the photo include (front row, fourth from left) Rep. Jill Billings (D-La Crosse), Sen. Jennifer Shilling (D-La Crosse) and Rep. Steve Doyle (D-Onalaska). Not in the photo, because of a Natural Resources Committee meeting: Rep. Lee Nerison (R-Westby) and Rep. Chris Danou (D- Trempeleau) staffer Dan Bahr. Photo by Capitol photographer.
Wisconsin Badgers' fans cheers on their team during Saturday, October 17, homecoming game at Camp Randall Stadium.
At the Wisconsin Cranberry Center in Warrens, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin produces more cranberries than any other state.
This is a detail of a mural on the wall outside a JC Penny's in Ashland, Wisconsin. The gentleman in the middle is my great grandfather, Emil Giese.
The weddings hardly over and she's already annoyed with him.....
Made August 17, 2013 in Eau Claire, WI.
Made August 24, 2013 on Galveston, TX.
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Pictures taken on a trip to Madison, Wisconsin with a stop in Chicago, Illinois
Inside the Wisconsin State Capitol
Built in 1902, this Romanesque Revival-style structure was designed by Gordon and Paunack for the congregation of the Bethel Norwegian Lutheran Church, now Bethel Lutheran Church. Bethel Lutheran Church outgrew the building in the 1930s, and built a new church several blocks to the southwest, which was completed in 1940, after which the building became home to the First Christian Church of Madison. The building features a painted red brick exterior, a cross-gable roof, a tower with a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet, a belfry with large arched louvers featuring tracery, recessed brick panels below the belfry, rusticated stone belt coursing, trim, and window sills, roman arched window openings, an entrance door at the base of the tower with a stained glass roman arched transom, above which is a datestone engraved with the year “1902” a side entrance with a stained glass roman arched transom, and a rusticated stone base. The building today serves as apartments, having ceased to be used as a church in the 20th Century.
Members of the Acappella Choir lined both sides of the auditorium to sing "Wana Baraka," a Kenyan folk song.