Building Taliesin
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Seidel, emil, 54
Seymour, Ralph Fletcher, 8, 19, 127, 134, 151, 153–55, 157, 160, 161
Shaffer, Peter, 29
Shakespeare, William. See Romeo and Juliet
Shaw, Howard Van doren, 137
Shining Brow (Hagen opera), 6, 7, 10
Signola, “Dad,” 117
Silver, Joel, 9
Simonson, Eric, 10
Sloan, John, 129
“A Small House with lots of Room in It” (Ladies Home Journal), 16
Smith, Kathryn, 10, 12n.13
Smith College, 53
Socialists, 51, 54, 56
Some Came This Way (Seymour), 154
Sonderheft (Wright), 133, 171n.84
Spaulding, John, 134, 136, 139, 156
Spaulding, William, 134, 136, 139, 156
Spencer, Herbert, 53
Springfield (Illinois), 27, 105
Spring Green (Wisconsin): gale and gilman in, 164, 165; Lloyd Jones family as settlers near, 50; Taliesin burial expenses in, 193; and the Wright-Borthwick scandal, 57, 125–27, 128, 161, 202. See also Spring Green (Wisconsin) Home News; Taliesin; Unity Chapel
Spring Green, 1912 (Niedecken), 35, 106
Spring Green (Wisconsin) Home News, 165–66, 194, 195; Wright’s letter “To My Neighbors” in, 5, 198, 202–3
Spring Green river wagon bridge, 95, 175
stages: in Avery Coonley Playhouse, 39, 136. See also puppet theater (Frank Lloyd Wright’s)
Stalwarts (Republican branch), 51
Steffens, Lincoln, 157
Stein, Allan, 31
Stein, Gertrude, 30, 30, 31, 32n.31
Stein, Leo, 30, 30, 31
Stein, Sarah, 30, 31
stone (for Taliesin), 116, 117, 119. See also “pop-out” masonry
Strand (Ellen Key’s Swedish home), 3, 146, 148, 149, 149, 152, 156, 161, 162, 162, 163; Borthwick’s visit to, 146, 148, 149, 154; Hiroshige print at, 147, 150, 155
Streisand, Barbra, 9
Studies and Executed Buildings for Frank Lloyd Wright. See Wasmuth Portfolio
Sullivan, Louis, 164
Susan Lawrence Dana house, 16, 27, 74, 105
Sweden: Key’s influence on social policy in, 149; language of, 153, 160; Royal Library of, 3, 9, 147.
See also Key, Ellen Sofia
Syracuse (New York) Herald, 126
Taj Mahal gardens, 177
Taliesin (I): architectural plan for first, iii; Belvedere Tower at, 63, 88, 89; Borthwick as reason for, 5, 10, 36, 192; Borthwick’s description of, 3, 161–62; breezeway at, 62, 64, 73, 81, 175, 186, 193; bunkroom at, 60, 69, 84, 85, 118, 198; centennial of, 3; in Chicago Architectural Club exhibit, 142, 144, 145; courtyards at, 5, 60, 60, 62, 65, 67, 74, 75, 116, 117, 159, 175, 184, 185, 186; dam at, 75, 97, 99, 100, 116, 175, 179; desertion of, ix, 8; dining room of, 4, 12n.13, 80; driveway at, 60, 63, 64, 175; fireplaces in, 76–79, 87, 117, 118, 119, 180, 189; fires at, ix, 5, 186–87, 188, 189, 189, 190, 191; flower gardens at, 2, 7, 175, 176, 177, 193; fountains at, 116; fruit trees at, 115, 176–77; furnishings in, 119; guest cottage at, 86; hayloft at, 91, 181, 182; Italy as inspiration for, 4, 15, 19, 20, 21, 24, 27, 35, 177, 179; kitchen at, 66, 189; land for, 23, 25, 56, 114, 123, 124.132; livestock at, 116; living room of, 4, 11, 12n.13, 60, 70, 73, 76–79, 180; location of photos of, 4, 5, 10, 12n.14, 108; murders at, ix, 188–98, 200–201; name of, 114, 200; as a “natural” house, 27, 114–19; natural light in, 119, 175; outbuildings at, 60, 88; photographic record of construction of, 3–5, 10–11, 60–103, 109–13; plaque at entrance to, 61, 102, 103; pond at, 98, 116, 175, 179; “pop-out” masonry at, 79, 102, 117, 180; porte cochere at, 5, 75, 184, 185, 186; postcards of ruined, 191, 196; puppet theater built in, 104, 104–7, 105, 106, 107; residential wing of, 182, 183, 189, 190; scent of, 179, 188; self-contained aim of, 117; statues at, 74, 75, 159, 181; stone for, 116, 117, 119; Tea Circle at, 5, 20, 67, 75, 145, 159, 179, 181, 182; terrace of, 61, 68, 72; tourism related to, 10; vegetable gardens at, 4, 5, 60, 101, 115, 116, 117, 174, 177–78, 178; views of, 63, 72, 89, 90, 91, 93, 97, 177; as a villa, 72, 179; vineyard at, 115, 176–77; workmen at, 3, 4, 5, 56, 57, 60, 60, 62, 65, 66, 69, 72, 81, 87, 101, 102, 117, 118, 189, 190, 191–94, 194, 197; Wright and Borthwick’s creative productivity at, 6, 8, 130–45, 161; Wright’s determination to rebuild, 203, 207; Wright’s studio and drafting room in, 3, 60, 60, 69, 81, 82, 83, 87, 161, 183, 195, 199n.18
Taliesin: A Masque (Hovey), 104, 114
“Taliesin: ‘To Fashion Worlds in little’” (Alofsin), 120n.2
Taliesin East (Wisconsin). See Taliesin
Taliesin Fellowship, ix, 5, 8, 117
Taliesin I: 1911-1914 (ed. Monocal), 9. See also Taliesin (I)
Taliesin II, 114, 207
Taliesin III, 34, 36, 207
Taliesin Preservation, Inc., 10. See also Murphy, Keiran
Taliesin Preservation Commission, 10
Taliesin West (Arizona), 8
Tanyderi (Porter home): Borthwick’s stay at, 3, 24, 35, 57, 161; Gilman and Gale at, 166; lend-a-Hand Club at, 165; Taliesin casualties at, 191–92; Wright commissioned to build, 35, 56
tar and feathering, 125, 126, 136
Tarbell, Ida, 157
Tea with Mussolini (movie), 20
temperance, 54
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 74
Thaw, Harry K., 123
Thomas Ridge (near Taliesin), 46, 48–49
Thompson, Tommy, 10
Thoreau, Henry David, 50
Thought Pictures (Key), 157
Toklas, Alice B., 31
“To My Neighbors” (Wright’s letter), 5, 198, 202–3
The Torpedo Under the Ark: Ibsen and Women (Key), 153, 153, 154, 155, 157
Tourjansky, Viktor, 29
Tower Hill (near Spring Green, Wisconsin): educational assemblies at, 50, 52; grove meetings at, 188; La Follette rallies at, 50, 52; women’s conferences at, 50, 52, 164
“Truth Against the World” runic symbol, 50, 52
Tulsa (Oklahoma) race riot, 58n.32
Tuscany (Italy). See Fiesole (Italy); Florence (Italy)
Twombly, Robert C., 57, 136–37
Ulysses (Joyce), 154
Unitarians, 42, 50, 52, 55, 57, 188
Unity (Unitarian magazine), 52
Unity Chapel (Wisconsin): Borthwick’s remains buried at, 8, 193, 203; Lindblom buried in, 194; as Lloyd Jones family cemetery, 50; Wright’s remains transferred to Arizona from, 8
Unity Temple (Chicago) model, 83
University of Chicago, 53, 56
University of Utah (Salt Lake City), 4, 10, 12n.14, 108
University of Wisconsin: Carlton’s body sent to, 197–98; Gilman on, 167; Hillside Home School students at, 53; Lloyd Jones family as regents of, 50, 54–55; and Progressive movement, 54–55; students at, 140
Utah State Historical Society, 4, 10, 12n.14, 108
The Valley of the God-Almighty Joneses (Barney), 179
van der Rohe, Mies, 133
Vaughn, Johnnie, 118
vegetarianism, 137
Via Verdi (Fiesole), 24
Villa Bardi (Fiesole), 30, 31
Villa Belvedere, 15, 17, 29–30
Villa Medici (Fiesole, Italy), 21, 27
Villino Belvedere (Fiesole), 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 28
Vogelsang, John, Jr., 192
Vogelsang, John, Sr., 192
Volk, Philip, 117
Wales: Lloyd Jones family as immigrants from, 50, 52
Waller, Edward, Jr., 141, 143
Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley, 137
Washington, Booker T., 137
Washington Irving Elementary School (Chicago), 25
Wasmuth, Ernest, 17, 25
Wasmuth Portfolio (Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright), 6, 27; financial support for, 132; and Taliesin fire, 195; Woolley’s work with, 4, 17, 133; Wright’s work on, 16, 17–18, 60, 133–34. See also Sonderheft
Waukesha Freeman, 132
Wellesley College, 53
Weston, Ernest, 189, 190, 191, 194, 197
Weston, William, 118, 189, 190, 191
White, Stanford, 123
Whitman, Walt, 50, 56
“A Whitsunday of Rodin-the First day of Summer, Beltane” (Key), 157
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 42
Whittier Hill (near Taliesin), 42
“Why I love Wisconsin” (Wright), 35
Wilder, Amos, 51, 55
Wilder, Thornton, 51, 55
Williams, John T., 191, 196–97
Williams, “Mother,” 119
Wilson, Craig, 34, 36
Wilson, Margaret Woodrow, 11, 164, 165
windmill (at Hillside Home School), 35, 45, 48, 114
Wisconsin Federation of Women’s Clubs, 52
Wisconsin Garden Guide (Minnich), 176
Wisconsin Historical Society, 4, 5, 10, 12n.14, 108
“Wisconsin Idea,” 50, 55
Wisconsin River, 35, 35, 36, 36, 61, 95, 96, 175
Wisconsin State Journal, 50, 51, 55, 131, 192
Wittwer, Ernest, 197
The Woman Movement (Key), 25; Borthwick’s translation of, 8, 154, 158, 168
The Women (Boyle), 12n.12
Women as World Builders (Dell), 167–68
Women’s Building and Neighborhood Club (Iowa County, Wisconsin, fairgrounds), 56, 165, 165–66, 194
Women’s clubs, 52, 56, 164, 165
Women’s suffrage, 54, 137, 164, 165, 167, 171n.95
Women’s Suffrage League of Wisconsin, 165
Woolley, Taylor A.: current location of photos of, 4–5, 10, 108; Italian photos of, 16, 19; in Italy, 4, 17, 21, 27, 29, 105; on Mamah Borthwick, 161; as Salt Lake City architect, 108, 108, 212; at Taliesin, 26, 57, 60, 60, 61; Taliesin construction photos of, 60–103, 109–13; as Taliesin photographer, 4–5, 161; Wasmuth Portfolio work by, 4, 17, 133
Work Song (Hatcher and Simonson), 10
World War I, 188
Wright, Anna Lloyd Jones (Wright’s mother): after Taliesin murders, 198; in Chicago, 52; Gill on, 9; and Hillside Home School, 53; marriage of, 57; support of, for Wright, 132, 162; Taliesin II to contain apartment for, 207; and Taliesin land, 23, 25, 56, 123, 124, 132; as women’s club founder, 56;
Wright’s letters to, 17, 21, 23–24
Wright, Catherine (Wright’s daughter), 23, 123–24
Wright, Catherine Tobin (Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright), 5, 105; in Japan, 134; in literary group, 56, 151; refuses to divorce Wright, 3, 57, 128; Wright’s discussions with, on Borthwick, 21, 23, 25; Wright’s financial support for, 23, 26, 57, 125; on Wright’s relationship with Borthwick, 123, 124–25
Wright, Elizabeth Catherine, 106
Wright, Frances (Wright’s daughter), 104
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 3, 114, 131, 186, 198; architectural accomplishments of, while with Borthwick, 6, 130–31; architectural masterworks of, as self-contained worlds, 131; as architectural superstar, ix, 56; birth year of, 9; as Borthwick’s co-translator, 19, 131, 133, 151, 155–57, 161, 204; Borthwick’s omission from autobiography of, 5–6, 8–9, 170n.71; as commercial architect, 137; as domestic architecture reformer, 51, 56, 137; in Fiesole with Borthwick, 4, 5, 14, 15, 17, 28, 29–30, 105; financial and other support for Oak Park family of, 23, 25, 57, 125, 161; gift to Key from, 147, 150, 155; grief of, 194–95, 198–99; “In exile” by, 28; as Japanese art dealer, 6, 131, 134, 139, 147, 156, 194; letter of, to Key on Borthwick’s death, 9, 196, 198–99; letter of, to neighbors following fire and murders, 5, 198, 202–3; on mass-produced building materials, 56; musical instruments played by, 30; names of, 9, 35; in popular culture, 9–10; Progressive background of, 50–55; publishing ventures of, 6, 8, 19, 131, 133, 151, 153–55, 157–58, 160, 161; purchases his mother’s land for Taliesin, 23; scandal of Borthwick’s relationship with, 3, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 57, 123–29, 131–32, 136, 139, 158, 161, 162, 202–3; scandal’s impact on, 125, 136–37; Taliesin burial expenses of, 192, 194; at Taliesin murder scene, 191, 200; wives of, 5, 8. See also Prairie style; puppet theater; Taliesin; specific works and buildings by
Wright, John Lloyd (Wright’s son), 36, 53, 57, 143, 144, 191
Wright, Kitty. See Wright, Catherine Tobin (Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright)
Wright, (Robert) Llewellyn, 104, 105; puppet theater built for, 11, 104, 104–7, 144, 145
Wright, Lloyd (Wright’s son), 60, 61, 104; creations of, 144; in Europe, 17, 23, 27, 29, 105; as Hillside Home School student, 53
Wright, Maginel (Wright’s sister), 50, 53, 179, 188, 198–99; marriages of, 57; painting by, 105
Wright, Miriam Noel (Mrs. Frank Lloyd), ix, 5, 8
Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd (Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright), 5, 5, 8–9, 34, 172n.108
Wright, Tim, 106
Wright, William Carey (Wright’s father), 57
Wrightscapes (Aguar), 179
Yahara Boat House plans (Madison), 16