Sept 27-29 2017 2017 AUTUMN EXCURSION ‘Frank Trail through Lodging ’ Accommodations…. Sept 27-29

Registration Form FRIENDS OF THE WISCONSIN Wednesday & Thursday Evening HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENT: Name ______Quality Inn – East Troy https://www.choicehotels.com/wisconsin Address / City/State/Zip ‘ TRAIL /east-troy/quality-inn- ______THROUGH WISCONSIN!’ ______hotels/wi273?source=gyxt Join the FRIENDS of the Wisconsin Historical Phone # ______Please book any hotels required in Society for another fascinating 3-day tour as we Madison prior to the tour (Tuesday follow the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail through E-mail ______evening Sept 26) early to avoid any southern Wisconsin. The Friends annual potential conferences. Select Accommodations: adventure will be held September 27-29 and Name your roommate Wednesday Dinner: this year we will celebrate the sesquicentennial Dbl (each) @ $610 of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth by visiting many Single @ $725 Cotton Exchange – Waterford WI https://www.cottonexchangewi.com/ of the famed architect’s most famous creations Roommate: ______in the Badger State. 2 Queens Required Yes No Thursday Dinner: Triple pricing available upon request. Lake Lawn Resort -Delavan WI https://www.lakelawnresort.com/dining The 2017 Autumn Excursion begins and ends in Madison and includes visit to Wright designed Make checks payable to: Lamers Tour & Travel, or Who can Attend? give credit card number below buildings in Milwaukee, Racine, Delavan and #______You, your spouse, friend(s), relatives, neighbors Spring Green. Exp Date ______Security Code ______and acquaintances are invited. You can also

Credit Card Type: Visa Mastercard come as a single. (Single room rates apply and triple pricing available upon request.) Recommend purchasing independent trip insurance. Note: This tour involves some moderate walking

Return form with payment to: and the ability to board a bus independently. ***Registration Fee***

Includes motor coach transportation, driver, on- 1126 W. Boden Court · Milwaukee, WI 53221 board entertainment, site charges, entrance fees, 414.281.2002, ext. 10417 · 800.236.8687 accommodations, special speakers, 2 breakfasts, 2 dinners & 2 lunches. Additional Questions: JoEllen Hegwood at 414-476-4061 Double ______$ 610

Registration deadline August 20, 2017 Single______$ 725

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TRIP HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE: Friday – Sept. 29 Wednesday – Sept. 27 After our full day of activities, we head to the hotel Day #3 of our fabulous path along The Frank Our Autumn Excursion will begin with an early where we will stay for both nights, to freshen up morning pickup in Madison at the Shopko parking before heading out to dinner at The Cotton Lloyd Wright Trail will take us to Spring Green for lot. (Shopko 2201 Z201 Zeier Road, Madison, WI Exchange in Waterford for a fabulous dinner. tours of , Wright’s beloved Wisconsin Parking Lot Zeier Road @ East Town Blvd) River Valley home. Located on 600-acres, Taliesin After a short trip across town we will start our Thursday - Sept. 28 has been described as “the greatest domestic space tour at the Wisconsin Historical Society to view a After breakfast at the hotel, Day #2 of our Autumn in America”. sampling of the Frank Lloyd Wright collection. Excursion will take us to Racine for a personally Next we will be given a personal tour of the iconic guided tour of the Unitarian Meeting SC Johnson House. This Administration National Building & Landmark Research Tower. site features Included in the as the centerpiece visit to the SC Johnson site will be a visit to The SC of the Johnson Gallery – At Home With Frank Lloyd building, an ascending glass and steel prow roofed Wright, which features a rotating selection of in copper. Wright designs and artifacts and explores Wright’s Our tours will include the estate’s gardens and Our next stop in Madison will be the Monona influence on families and the American home. We Terrace. Wright’s controversial creation was outdoor sites as well as the interior of the house finally will also take a tour of and school of architecture. While in Spring Green constructed Racine driving by the we will have lunch at the Wright designed and in 1997 and is famous Wright constructed Riverview Terrace Café that is in the celebrating designed FLLW Visitor Center. To conclude our stay in its 20th and Thomas P Hardy anniversary. Spring Green, the excursion will feature step-off Excursion House. We will also stops at the Wyoming Valley School Cultural Arts participants hear from author Mark Center and at the rural cemetery where Frank will have a Hertzberg about Lloyd Wright was originally buried. special guided tour of the building explaining the Wright in Racine. We return to Madison for a tour of Wright history of Wright’s dream for Madison. After traveling by The Autumn Excursion then moves to designed homes in the capital city. Our first stop Milwaukee for a guided tour of the American motor coach to Delavan, excursion participants will be at the “first Usonian” house, the first house System-Built homes located in the Cream City’s will board a tour boat for our personal lakeside to have a heated water in-floor heating system. West Burnham Street neighborhood. Constructed tour of Frank Lloyd Next we will travel to the Gilmore House in 1916, these constructed by Wright in 1908. This home, also homes resulted Wright designed homes. from Wright’s We will see several homes known as the “Airplane House”, will feature a desire to design including, Penwern home, personally guided tour and afternoon tea. On the appealing way back to our debarkation site at East Towne, Ross Summer Residence, housing that we will have a drive-by of the iconic Lamp House, would be AP Johnson House, Wallis Wright’s first designed house in Madison (1903) affordable for Cottage and the Spencer House. Once back on near the Capital Square. Our expected return every American. land we will enjoy lakeside dinning at The Lake time is 6:00 PM. Lawn Resort before heading back to the hotel.