Historic House Museums in Wisconsin - Open Air Museums in Wisconsin, House on the Rock, Taliesin, Herman C. Timm House (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Open air museums in Wisconsin, House on the Rock, Taliesin, Herman C. Timm House, Hearthstone Historic House Museum, Villa Louis, Rahr West Art Museum, Stonefield, Wisconsin Governor's Mansion, Ten Chimneys, Amberg Historical Museum Complex, Pendarvis, Charles Allis Art Museum, Benjamin Church House, Trimborn Farm, Little Norway, Wisconsin, Octagon House, Pabst Mansion, Marathon County Historical Museum, Norskedalen, Oshkosh Public Museum, Milton House, Fort Winnebago, Sylvanus Wade House, Black Point, John S. Moffat House, Paine Art Center and Gardens, Old World Wisconsin, Skumsrud Heritage Farm, Hamlin Garland House, Heritage Hill State Historical Park, Palmer Brothers Octagons, Alexander Noble House, Bernard Schwartz House, Rusk County Historical Society Museum, Oak Creek Historical Society, Schlegelmilch-McDaniel House, Jeremiah Curtin House. Excerpt: The House on the Rock, originally opened in 1959, is a complex of architecturally unique rooms, streets, gardens and shops designed by Alex Jordan, Jr. It is located in Iowa County, south of Spring Green, Wisconsin and is a regional tourist attraction. Both of Jordan's biographers relate a story told by Sid Boyum, which places the inspiration for the house in a meeting between Alex Jordan, Jr. and Frank Lloyd Wright, at some unspecified time apparently between 1914 and 1923. Jordan Sr. drove with Boyum to Taliesin to show Wright the plans for a building, the Villa Maria in Madison. Jordan worshipped the famous architect and hoped for his approval. Wright looked at the plans and told Jordan: "I wouldn't hire you to design a cheese crate or a chicken coop. You're not capable." Fuming, on the drive back on Highway 23, Jordan pointed to a spire of rock and told Boyum: "I'm going to put up a Japanese house on one of those pinnacle rocks and advertise it." Balousek says ...