Travel

With an afternoon flight home out of Chicago, I had one major Frank Lloyd Wright site to visit; his Home and Studio in Oak Park. Last time I was through Chicago, many years ago, I’d tried to get onto one of the tours of the Home and Studio but there were no places for walk-ins. [...]

Today I was able to visit a site that’s been on my list for a long time; Taliesin. It was well worth the 3.5 hour drive up from Chicago. I had hoped to get on the 4-hour estate tour that included both the Hillside Home and Taliesin itself, with a 1-hour walk in-between that took [...]

I had originally planned to combine a Saturday 4-hour tour of Taliesin with a Friday tour of the Johnson Wax Administration (now SC Johnson) building in Racine, and an overnight stay somewhere between the two. However the booking gods were not on my side, so I decided to make an afternoon trip up to Racine [...]

I had a few hours on Monday morning before the course I’m attending was due to start. It was a great opportunity to get out to Oak Park and have a look at the Unity Temple. The last time I was in Chicago was in 2002 and I had a few hours before a plane [...]

Today, I was able to continue my Frank Lloyd Wright building visits by taking a tour of the Robie House in south Chicago. This house is owned by the University of Chicago but is being restored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. Even with a wet and miserable Chicago day, there were a lot [...]