Wright Chat

KevinW: Do you know the street address of your Sullivanesque building in Merced? Also, I'd be happy to credit you as photographer if you send me your name. If not, that's OK too.

John

outside in and KevinW (since private messaging seems to be off):

Do either of you object to my using your photos on my website, the Prairie School Traveler? These are great finds and deserve to be better known.

E-mail me at prairieiniowa at aol. I'll be happy to credit you as photographer.

John

Not to be peppering Wright Chat with links to my website, but the image of the Stockman House being moved is definitely worth sharing.

http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/i ... ckman.html

Further images from the Prairie School Traveler: http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/world/can/mb/stonewall.html http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/world/can/on/ottawa/lansdowne.html http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/world/can/on/ottawa/church.html http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/worl...

According to an e-mail received today, PAB is closing 31 August. All titles are now 70% off.

http://pabooks.com/

I received an e-mail today from PAB whose subject read, "The Prairie Avenue Bookshop is Closing After Almost 50 Years." The e-mail continues, "We are now selling all titles in the store at 60% off! That's ALL new and used books and magazines, with no minimum amount required! Visit us ...

must have been a vicarious estimate

It's a beautiful drive, but also has many curves as you get close to Taliesin.

It would likely have taken less than 2-1/2 hours to drive from Spring Green to Madison. It's 40 miles from Taliesin to the capitol downtown. Remember Edgar Tafel's anecdote about Edgar Kaufmann's trip to Taliesin? He reckoned that it would take EJK 140 minutes to drive the 140 miles from Milwaukee t...

You may already know of its existence, but the John Lautner Foundation is fairly active, and has a mailing list with notices of tours, etc.

http://www.johnlautner.org/

If you're headed downtown for any reason, don't miss Louis Sullivan's Bayard Building at 65 Bleecker Street:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard-Condict_Building

I stopped in Cedar Rapids yesterday and took a few photos of the Peoples Savings Bank. The interior views were taken through truly grimy windows, but it's clear that some stabilization work is underway, if not actual restoration work. I'm attempting to find someone at the bank who can comment on the...

A few additional angles:

http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/o ... osher.html

Thanks to Dutch architect Klaas Vermaas, the Prairie School Traveler has quite a bit of information about Wright's influence in the Netherlands.

http://prairieschooltraveler.com/html/w ... rland.html

John

A recent visitor to the Prairie School Traveler wrote to ask about a house "designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright" in or near Makanda, Ill. Because it was described as having "part of it built over a stream that ran through the woods," I am guessing that it is the work of a...

There are some basic misconceptions about copyright floating around here. It is not legal to make wholesale copies of copyrighted works even if they are not being offered for sale by the copier. Limited copying can be made under the doctrine of "fair use", where reproduction is allowed for...