The Taliesin House

Taliesin was the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's estate. It is located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of Spring Green, Wisconsin, and is an extended example of Prairie School architecture. The 600-acre (240-hectare) property was built on land that had previously belonged to Wright's maternal family.

Taliesin was thus erected below the hillcrest according to the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. The house, considered one of Wright's most notable examples of Prairie-style organic architecture, uses local materials to mimic the expansiveness of the Wisconsin environment, with a configuration characterized by the architect as low, wide, and snug. Local farmers assisted Wright in moving the stone from a local yellow limestone quarry, which he then mixed with river sand to form Taliesin's walls. The interior plaster was blended with sienna to provide a golden tint that reflected the pastoral landscape. Taliesin contains several architectural aspects that became hallmarks for Wright, such as cantilever roofs, broad windows, and an open floor layout.

Taliesin became a World Heritage Site in 2019 with a selection of Wright's other work under the title "The 20th-Century Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright." Taliesin and the adjacent estate were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and the National Park Service designated it as a National Historic Landmark (NHL) District on January 7, 1976. Taliesin and Taliesin West were proposed as World Heritage Sites in the late 1980s, a UNESCO designation for properties of extraordinary international significance.

Address: 5607 County Road C Spring Green, 53588 in Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States
Construction started: in 1911
Architectural style: Prairie School