![]() ![]() was set so sun came through the openings into every room sometime during the day. The house is best described by Wright himself: Taliesin was designed to grow from and within the natural landscape: the roof lines echoed the hills and valleys of the region the stone is a soft yellow limestone the walls are of stucco, taking their color from the sand in the nearby Wisconsin river of which they are made and the wood trim is cedar, with cedar shingles left to weather a silvery gray. Many of the characteristic prairie house elements that had become so familiar in Wright’s early work appear here, the gentle slope of the hipped roofs, the broad overhangs, and the strong chimney masses, but there the resemblance ends. The building wrapped around the hill, with rooms at ground level opening directly onto paved terraces and gardens, while rooms on the other side of the building overlooked the valley below. ![]() The house, studio, and farm were designed to blend easily with the lush, pastoral landscape of southern Wisconsin. ![]()
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