We went to Spring Green, a couple miles away, to see Frank Lloyd Wright's home, Taliesin. We had gone to Taliesin West in Arizona a couple of years ago. We only took the tour of the hillside home, just because the cost of his house is so much and we had seen some pics on the web. Wright's family were Welsh and moved to this area and his parents, aunts and uncles lived and farmed here because it reminded them of Wales. The aunts used this hillside house as a kindergarten and boarding school teaching in a Montessori type method from the early 1900's. Years later, Frank settled here and built his home but used the hillside house as a place to teach architectural students, which it is to this day. Frank was a believer in learn by doing, and as he built up his program, he had his students being mentored by his successful graduates and that his how it is done today. Many of the "fellowship" people are treated as part of the family and live on the property and are even buried in the family plot nearby.

Then we went to House on the Rock, which we thought was just another beautifully designed home. Boy were we surprised! It is like a carnival enclosed in buildings. Some strange guy built a house whose main claim is that he has an "infinity" room that juts out mid air over the hillside. The grounds are very pretty, but the house itself is a dark, gloomy, rug covered (floor and wall), low ceiling maze of small rooms. We come to find that the guy never really lived there - it was his 'party' house - it was a living hell to me - like you were really dead, but existing still. It was very depressing to me. Then he decided to build more buildings and he has stored so many collections that you definitely get brain overload. We put some pictures up to get the idea. Glad we went to Taliesin first.