Herbert Jacobs House I
In the early 1930s – at about the same time he was putting together a group of apprentices in Spring Green, Wisconsin – Frank Lloyd Wright was beginning to envision the “ideal city”, where homes could be available for the average family. The “Usonian” homes, as they became known, could be easily constructed, were affordable […]
John Pew House
Just across the street from the northeast corner of the Blackhawk Country Club and tucked neatly into the woods on a narrow strip of land on the shores of Lake Mendota in Madison, Wisconsin is the incredible, Wright-designed Pew House. It was built in 1940 for John and Ruth Pew by Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship. From […]
Van Tamelen House (1956)
According to Wikipedia, Marshall Erdman (born Mausas Erdmanas on 29 September 1922, in Tverai, Lithuania) “emigrated to the United States at age 17” and, after high school, “studied architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.” After service in the Army Corps of Engineers during WW II (where he helped build the pontoon bridge at […]
Monona Terrace (1994)
Frank Lloyd Wright, was never accused of being short on dreams and visions. From the smallest of homes to the largest of hotels and even entire cities, Wright was a master of design and was certainly far ahead of his time. One such design proposal was for a “dream civic center”. First envisioned in 1938 […]
Eugene Gilmore House (1908)
In the University Heights Historic District, High up on a hill in Madison, Wisconsin and overlooking both the University of Wisconsin Madison Campus and Lake Mendota, is a beautiful Frank Lloyd Wright design referred to as “The Airplane House”. A rather monolithic-looking structure, the home was commissioned by Eugene A. Gilmore, a law professor at […]