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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1911/00/00 Frank Lloyd Wright Architect Construction begins at Taliesin.
1932/00/00 Taliesin Fellowship Established Frank Lloyd Wright creates an apprenticeship program, the Fellowship, at Taliesin. Apprentices learn architectural design, do household chores, work the farm and enjoy performances and parties.
1932/00/00 Frank Lloyd Wright Founder Frank Lloyd Wright closes his office and establishes an apprenticeship program, the Fellowship, at his home, Taliesin.
1932/00/00 John H Howe Work Nineteen-year-old John H Howe arrives at Taliesin as a charter member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship. Over the next 32 years, Howe will become known as "the pencil in Wright's hand".
1944/00/00 Seth C Peterson Life Unlike American boys who collecting baseball cards or comic books, Seth Peterson begins collecting books, pictures and articles about the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Living close to Wright's Taliesin, Seth will frequently attend concerts there.
1954/06/00 Seth C Peterson Life Seth Peterson graduates from high school. Seeking to become an architect with Frank Wright, Peterson applies to be an apprentice at Taliesin. He will never be accepted into the program and becomes a computer operator at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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Particulars for Taliesin:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Education
Historic Use Educational related housing
Sight Category Historic District
Criteria Historic Event
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Level of Significance National
Architectural Style Prairie School
Owner Private
Historic Use Professional
Historic Use School
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 14th April 1973

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Taliesin
Registry Address: 2 mi. S of Spring Green on WI 23
Registry Number: 73000081
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Wright,Frank Lloyd
Architectural Style: Prairie school
Area in Acres: 490
Contributing Buildings: 5
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 3
Other Certification: Designated National Landmark
Certification: Listed in the National Register
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Landscape architecture, Education, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Criteria Consideration: Significance of less than fifty years
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1950-1974, 1925-1949
Significant Year: 1911, 1959
Historic Function: Domestic, Education, Commerce, Trade
Historic Sub-Function: Professional, Single dwelling, School, Educational related housing
Current Function: Domestic, Education, Commerce, Trade
Current Sub-Function: Professional Single dwelling School

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