ANNUAL REPORT January 1 - December 31, 2013 flwright.org PAGE 1 Letter from the Chairman of the Board | Board of Directors ... 3 Report of the President & CEO ........................................... 4 Staff ............................................................................ 12 Internship Program ......................................................... 13 Recognizing Our Volunteers ............................................ 14 The Guest Experience ..................................................... 15 Foundation and Business Contributors ............................... 16 In Partnership with the Community .................................... 17 Donors .......................................................................... 18 Society Level Members .................................................... 21 Volunteers ..................................................................... 24 Financial Statements ....................................................... 28 The mission of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust is to engage, educate and inspire the public through architecture, design and the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, and to preserve the Trust’s historic sites and collections. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2013 GRAHAM J. RARITY, CHAIRMAN JOHN M. RAFKIN, VICE CHAIR AND CHAIR, EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE DEAR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS ROBERT MILLER, VICE CHAIR NICHOLE MARKLEY LINHARDT, VICE CHAIR 2013 has been a year of expansion for the With the expansion of our sites this year, the STEVEN E. BRADY, TREASURER AND CHAIR, Trust. In August, the Board of Directors voted Trust grew its audience and introduced a FINANCE COMMITTEE unanimously to add Unity Temple to the number of new tours and programs. We also MARK A. SMYLIE, SECRETARY Trust’s sites. addressed much-needed preservation projects DAVID DUNNING at the Home and Studio, which is now solely Thanks to the vision of the congregation and FRANK R. GAILOR owned by the Trust and remains the busiest restoration foundation of Unity Temple, we DAVID HERNANDEZ of our five sites. MICHAEL MENSIK assumed responsibility for tours and programs DON ROSENWINKEL at Wright’s greatest Prairie style public building For an exceptional year of growth and accom- LAWRENCE E. STEWART, MD located just a few blocks from the Home and plishment at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, TIM SAMUELSON, ADVISORY MEMBER Studio in Oak Park. Unity Temple strengthens I offer my sincere thanks to our donors, our Oak Park presence and brings our Frank volunteers, members, friends and neighbors. Lloyd Wright Trust sites to a total of five, To all those named in this report, my fellow located in every direction from our central Board officers and directors, our President & offices in downtown Chicago. CEO Celeste Adams, our staff members and volunteers, I extend my appreciation The Board voted in September to update the for outstanding teamwork and dedication to Trust’s name, and begin doing business as the our mission. Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. This change refreshed our name, making it simpler, stron- ger, and easier to remember. Our mission and commitment to preservation remain unchanged. Over the course of the next year, Graham Rarity if this new identity is effective and widely Chairman, Board of Directors accepted, the Board will adopt Frank Lloyd Wright Trust as our corporate name. LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD PAGE 3 Graham Rarity, Chairman , Board of Directors PAGE 3 REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT & CEO PAGE 4 GATEWAY TO WRIGHT partnership that respects the spiritual function of Unity Temple while sharing its architectural IN CHICAGO AND Unity Temple brilliance with the public. BEYOND The Trust’s five Wright sites weave a rich The addition of Unity Temple to our sites and compelling story about Wright’s Chi- this year has given the Trust an important cago years from his arrival as a young man of opportunity to tell a deeper and richer story twenty, training in Louis Sullivan’s office, to about Wright’s creation of the Prairie style an architect of international stature, known during the years he kept his studio in Oak in Europe where his Wasmuth portfolio was Park. Completed in 1908, Unity Temple is published in 1910, to the commission of the the first great modern concrete design build- Imperial Hotel in Japan, which would engage ing. While its exterior is simple and monolithic, him until 1922. Telling the story of these years the interior is filled with color and light, suggest- through the experience of our Chicago sites ing the illuminating power of spiritual kinship. Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio brings an authentic understanding of Wright’s The close creative and physical connection ground-breaking achievement. The Trust is between Unity Temple and Wright’s Oak Park now truly the gateway to Frank Lloyd Wright Studio can now be presented in tours of these in Chicago. sites. In September, the Trust began train- In November 2013, the Trust continued to SC Johnson Gallery exhibition ing sessions for interpreters at Unity Temple expand its reach with the launch of the new and the new tour program began in October. website flwright.org. This mobile responsive While the Home and Studio functions as an site features information about each of our accredited house museum, Unity Temple re- five historic sites in the Chicago area and links mains an active place of worship for the Uni- Frederick C. Robie House to Wright public sites across the country. The tarian Universalist congregation that awarded website is an in-depth resource of information the commission to Frank Lloyd Wright in about Wright’s Chicago years and includes 1905. The Trust and Unity Temple’s congrega- videos and advance ticketing and donation tion and restoration foundation have forged a Emil Bach House PAGE 5 The Rookery Emil Bach House functionalities that are user friendly. The full range of Trust programs and activities can be accessed on flwright.org, from shopping to international travel. The new website is a state-of- the-art design serving as a gateway to Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago. TOURS AND PUBLIC PROGRAMS In keeping with a Chicago-wide presence, the Trust implemented its most ambitious new tour this year titled Wright Around Chicago. Offered as a summer weekly program, Wright Around Chicago bus tours covered all Trust sites in one day with guides providing in-depth information about Frank Lloyd Wright and his Chicago years. In summer 2013, the bus tours served 275 visi- tors. The Trust also participated in the citywide event Open House Chicago at Bach House and Robie House with a total of 2,500 visitors. Theme tours expanded in 2013 with Pedal Oak Park adding Fridays to the already popu- lar Saturday and Sunday schedule. At Robie House, April and October After Hours featured a series of evening speakers, including architects flwright.org Stanley Tigerman and Margaret McCurry, to The Other Pedreras exhibition, Barcelona PAGE 6 celebrate the opening of the Seminary Co- An Architectural Love Affair: Dutch Modernists op Bookstore, which they designed, adjacent and the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright by Wim to Robie House. 2013 attendance for tours de Wit, Adjunct Curator of the Cantor Art and programs at the Trust’s five sites totaled Museum at Stanford University and Consulting 140,475: Home and Studio 92,075; Robie Curator for the Getty Research Institute. The House 39,600; The Rookery 3,800; Unity series will continue in summer 2014. Pamela Robertson, Origins and Influences speaker Temple (October-December) 3,330; Bach A new Frank Lloyd Wright Trust Community House (July-September) 1,670. In 2013, the Enrichment Series was launched this year Trust commenced a two-year series of lecture with six lectures at three locations: Oak Park, programs tracing the international influences downtown Chicago, and Hyde Park. Speak- on Frank Lloyd Wright during the early years ers included Frank Lipo, Executive Director of his career as a designer and architect. Made of the Historical Society of Oak Park and possible by a generous grant from the Terra River Forest; Christopher Payne, architect and Foundation for American Art, Frank Lloyd Oak Park resident; Diane Dillon, Director Wright: Origins and Influences was presented of Scholarly and Undergraduate Programs at in the Pritzker Auditorium of the Monroe Newberry Library; John Eifler, preservation Building and presentations video-recorded for and design architect; David Bagnall, Curator online viewing on flwright.org. at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust; and Paul Speaker Adrian Smith with University of Chicago students The Summer 2013 lectures in this series were Durica, Hyde Park historian. Common Cause: Charles Rennie Mackintosh The third annual program for Thinking into and Frank Lloyd Wright by Pamela Robertson, the Future: The Robie House Series on Professor of Mackintosh Studies and Senior Architecture, Design and Ideas was presented at Curator at the Hunterian Art Gallery at the the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for University of Glasgow; The English Arts and the Arts. Chicago architect Adrian Smith, re- Crafts Movement in America: Opposing Ends nowned as the designer of some of the world’s of the Same Stick by Anne Mallek, Curator tallest buildings, addressed an audience of of the Gamble House in Pasadena; PAGE 7 Architect Adrian Smith, Thinking Into the Future speaker over 300 on Supertall Towers and Green Cities. and Studio tours to fourth graders attending Smith shared his work on Burj Khalifa in the public schools within Oak Park Elementary United Arab Emirates and