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SEPTEMBER 2020 Volume 25 Issue 3 SEPTEMBER 2020 Volume 25 Issue 3 WRIGHT in WISCONSIN MEMBER NEWSLETTER \ CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BroadacreBroadacre CityCity REVISITINGREVISITING WRIGHT’SWRIGHT’S ‘NEW‘NEW FREEDOM’FREEDOM’ FORFOR AMERICANAMERICAN LIVINGLIVING ININ ANAN AGEAGE OFOF PANDEMICPANDEMIC pagepage 88 PAGE 2 PAGE 4 PAGE 6 PAGE 15 News & Notes: Wright in Still Bend summer: Projects Taking a trusses-eye view of Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Wisconsin items of interest enhance Two Rivers Usonian the drafting room at Hillside Center joins historic register News & Notes from Wright in Wisconsin Tours Resume at A.D. German Wright in Wisconsin to Launch Phase 2 of Wright Virtual Visits Warehouse, Richland Center Quarterly Member Book Group Features Badger State Properties President’s Message by GEORGE HALL The A.D. German Warehouse Con- Wright in Wisconsin will host its Three Wisconsin sites designed by servany board of directors has de- first member book group from 1 to Frank Lloyd Wright have so far par- cided to resume tours on the last 2 p.m. on Oct. 25, 2020. The book ticipated in Phase 2 of the Wright Vir- Sunday of the month, from 11 a.m. to we’ll read for this inaugural session tual Visits project led by the Frank 3 p.m. Private tours are available by is: “Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Lloyd Wright Foundation, Frank appointment only. Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright” by Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy The cost is $15/person. No more Paul Hendrickson. The author is and Unity Temple Restoration Foun- than five people at a time may attend slated to attend the event and partici- dation. The live video collaborations a tour. pate in the discussion. involving Monona Terrace Com- Hall © Joan Masks are required, and social dis- Registration information is avail- munity and Convention Center, Burn- © Mark Hertzberg © Mark tancing will be maintained at all able at wrightinwisconsing.org. At- ham Block and Taliesin are available Here we are, with the pandemic still with us for the fore- questions will help shape our future planning and, in ad- times. tendance is limited to 15 members. at savewright.org. seeable future, with some Wright- and apprentice-designed dition, tell us where we need to improve. homes having exterior and limited interior tours and others To those who haven’t returned the questionnaire, com- deferring tours until this fall, or later. Meanwhile, every- pleting it can’t be that painful! If you still have your ques- WRIGHT IN WISCONSIN VOLUME 25 ISSUE 3 one is doing more online. tionnaire, please try answering the questions that matter to WRIGHT IN WISCONSIN is published three times annually by So far, Wright in Wisconsin has co-sponsored additional you and send it back — or create a pdf and email it to us as CONTENTS Wright in Wisconsin, a nonprofit organization designed to virtual lectures hosted by Heather Sabin at Monona Ter- soon as you can. promote, protect and preserve the heritage of Frank Lloyd race Community and Convention Center, with an early If you need another questionnaire, please email the of- — Wright, his vision and his architecture as well as the work of summer lecture featuring former board member Mark fice. Bill Swan, our office administrator, and I are begin- his apprentices, Taliesin Associated Architects and like-minded architects — in his native state of Wisconsin. Membership Hertzberg sharing his book on the history of Penwern, the ning to work on returning membership cards and, for benefits include discounts at the Monona Terrace Gift Shop and Fred B. Jones estate on Delavan Lake near Lake Geneva. members who joined at the Donor level ($100/year) or on Wright and Like™ tour tickets, this newsletter, volunteer The most recent event was presented on August 22 by higher, including reciprocal sites information. ARTICLES opportunities and more. Donors of $100 or more receive board member Ken Dahlin: “The Misunderstood Wright: Most of you are long-time members who endured the reciprocal membership benefits at Wright sites nationwide (benefits vary by location). To join, visit us at Modernism and Traditionalism.” transition in 2017 with us. Your continued support is very 03 President’s Message www.wrightinwisconsin.org or contact us at the number or If you missed these lectures, you can find them online at: much appreciated. address below. https://tinyurl.com/2020wds. While a statistical sifting and winnowing of the returned 04 Still Bend Summer: A future presentation, involving architects with home- questionnaires awaits until we achieve a critical sample Projects Help to Advance Wright in Wisconsin Member Newsletter owners who are either preserving or “doing Wright” and in size, some impressions can be shared: Wright’s Usonian Vision Editor and designer Brian R. Hannan collaboration with the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Con- Special thanks to: Patrick J. Mahoney for providing the vintage servancy, is currently under discussion. • Everyone likes our Wright and Like tour, putting it as 08 Broadacre City: Revisiting postcard; and to Robert Hartmann for designing the Wright in All lectures are worth watching. If you want to under- No. 1 (despite being buried in the list of activities you Wisconsin logo and sharing his vintage pictures. stand what Wright is saying when he speaks about break- were asked to rank). Wright’s ‘New Freedom’ for American Living in an Age ing the box, abstraction and beauty, listen to Dahlin’s • Our newsletter came in at No. 2. Wright in Wisconsin Board of Directors and Staff presentation, in which he demystifies Wright’s 19th cen- • As for the current website, there was not so much en- of Pandemic Interim president George Hall tury mindset and vocabulary as applied to his 20th century thusiasm. To that end, we are making plans to redesign it 15 Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Vice president Brian R. Hannan architecture. and hope to unveil a more robust website by late spring Director, at-large Ken Dahlin next year, in time to aid in producing Wright and Like Center Joins Historic List Director, at-large Henry St. Maurice Secretary Open Wright in Wisconsin Member Surveys 2021, which we hope to be able to produce in the wake of REGULAR FEATURES Treasurer Curt Szymczak Your responses to our recently mailed questionnaire are the pandemic. Office administrator Bill Swan appreciated, illuminating and energizing. I only wish the 06 Vintage Photos 14 Tours & Events response rate was greater — approximately 25 percent as Your appreciation of Wright and Like and this newsletter Wright in Wisconsin 10 Wright Thoughts 16 Vintage Postcard of early September. I appreciate your handwritten notes is heartening, as these two activities are where we direct P.O. Box 6339, Madison, WI 53716-0339 and commentary as I chart your responses. most of our resources, along with maintaining an office (608) 287-0339 www.wrightinwisconsin.org To those of you who replied (and to you who also con- and core business functions. tributed financially), thank you. Your continued faith in LEFT: Detail, Broadacre City model, Milwaukee Art Museum, “Organic Architecture for the 21st Century,” May 2011. Wright in Wisconsin is very much appreciated. Answers to PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CONTINUES ON PAGE 04 ON THE COVER: Frank Lloyd Wright with the Broadacre City model in January 1935. For this image and, unless © Brian R. Hannan otherwise noted, images published with the Broadacre City article: © 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona. The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York). 02 WRIGHT IN WISCONSIN MEMBER NEWSLETTER VOLUME 25 ISSUE 3 SEPTEMBER 2020 03 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 03 So Long, Mark Hertzberg This board has undergone many transitions over the decades as we’ve faced various chal- lenges. Several longtime board members and I have weathered the most recent changes: We were happy to welcome new members Brian R. Hannan and Curt Szymczak this past winter. Now I regret to say that Mark Hertzberg de- cided to step down this past July. Mark has been our faithful board secretary for as long as I can remember, as well as our newsletter editor and general prompter and conscience for all things Wright. While we will miss him, his departure reminds us that serving on the board does not require a life-time commitment. Transitions naturally occur and should be anticipated. We are still looking for a few board members © Michael Ditmer with particular skill sets such as nonprofit law and historic preservation, as well as seeking to diversify our current board. As volunteer board members, we are limited in what we can do indi- Still Bend Summer vidually, without board membership becoming a © Michael Ditmer full-time endeavor. As that Wisconsin farmer, Projects Help to Advance Wright’s Usonian Vision author and raconteur Michael Perry says: “It’s Michael Ditmer, co-owner of Still Bend (1939), continues the work of restoring the Two Rivers residence and completing Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision for the home. totally up to you.” by BRIAN R. HANNAN Do feel free to reach out to us. Stay safe as we Ditmer completed the work this summer so the house Some people who own Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes endure and await a solution to this global pan- would be ready for its closeup. A “major television net- restore them as they were built. Others, like Michael Ditmer, work” was interested in profiling the house for a segment demic. help them become what they were meant to be. that is slated to air in the near future. “That’s my charge as steward of the house. I intend to leave Seeing the privacy walls and banquette seating installed this house being the shining example of what Frank Lloyd is “exhilarating,” Ditmer said, noting Wright left his clients Wright intended,” said Ditmer, who co-owns the Bernard and with “finer details to finish the sunken court the way he Fern Schwartz House (1939), which Wright named Still Bend, wanted” after a visit to the home in 1941.
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