WRIGHT AND LIKE 2003:  Madison, Wisconsin   Saturday June 7, 2003                       - Last updated June 3, 2003

Homes and Buildings Tour Tour Headquarters Online Ticket Sales Rare & Used Book Sale Area Information Related Events - Sunday Trolley Tour Related Sites Past Tours  Ticket Sales Update: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2003 A very limited number of tickets remain and will be sold on a first come, first serve basis on Saturday Morning June 7th at the Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, WI We hope to continue our tradition of hosting an enjoyable event that allows everyone the  opportunity to view all of the sites. We also wish to keep any lines as short as possible. As of today, we can no longer assure tickets will arrive via mail and we will need to end online and phone ticket sales. This is an extraordinary opportunity to get a fascinating glimpse of Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural legacy in Madison, Wisconsin. The Wright and Like, 2003: Madison, Wisconsin Tour is sponsored by Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin. The tour celebrates Wright's birthday weekend and features rare interior tours of the following private homes & buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright and Madison:  If Frank Lloyd Wright can be said to have a hometown, it is Madison, Wisconsin. From the ages of eleven to eighteen, he lived in Madison, and until his death at the age of ninety-one he maintained a constant association with the city. He designed thirty-two works for Madison and its immediate environs, beginning with the start of his independent career in 1893 and ending with a Madison project that was on his drawing board at the time of his death in April, 1959. A dozen of these designs were realized and nine survive. No other city can claim this range of Wright’s built and un-built work.  Thus it is with great pride that Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin has made arrangements to open six of these nine existing buildings to visitors on June 7th, with an exterior tour available for a seventh. A great Louis Sullivan house and a Prairie Style home in the new Middleton Hills subdivision round out this self-drive tour. Docents will provide information for these rarely open homes which span 60 productive years in the life of Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect and Wisconsin’s native son.     Major corporate sponsorship for 2003 is provided:  www.verhaleninc.com Please patronize our sponsors and let them know of your appreciation for their involvement in this community service! Homes and Buildings Tour    Ticket prices are: Before May 1 – Members $35, Non-Members $40 After May 1 – Members $40, Non-members $45 Tour private homes and building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Guides will be present at each site to present information about the buildings, See site details below. For reservations, please call the Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin Program office at (608) 287-0339. Proceeds from Wright and Like 2003: Madison, Wisconsin benefit the Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin Program, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote, protect and preserve the heritage of Frank Lloyd Wright, his genius and architecture, located in his native state of Wisconsin.    Tour subscribers will see the following buildings:   Robert M. Lamp House, (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1903) The Lamp House, a “little cream-white brick house with a roof-garden filled with flowers,” as Wright described it, sits on a center-block parcel only a block and a half from the Capitol Square. Lamp was Wright’s best friend through childhood and young adulthood. The Lamp House plan is a forerunner of the famed $5,000 concrete house plan published in the Ladies’ Home Journal in April1907. The roof garden was enclosed as a playroom in 1913.  Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House I, (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936) This was the first of Wright’s famed “Unsonian” designs ever erected—a dwelling “of and for” the United States. Its in-floor heating, sandwich walls, carport, and corner windows influenced residential architecture around America and led the Royal Institute of British Architecture to declare it one of the twenty most important buildings of the twentieth century. The dwelling has been handsomely restored.   Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House II, (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1944) (constructed, 1946-49) Again the Jacobses received a “first” from Wright—the first solar hemicycle design which Wright called “a fresh enterprise in architecture.” They had moved nine miles from Madison to a farm during World War II and commissioned a second small house from Wright. The cities of Middleton and Madison now virtually surround Wright’s “fresh enterprise,” whose earth berm and orientation to the sun made it a prototype of passive-solar design.   Eugene Van Tamelen House, (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956) (Erdman Prefab I) Marshall Erdman had been the contractor for the Unitarian Meeting House (completed in 1951), and in the middle 1950s Wright offered to refine Erdman’s prefabricated housing designs (by another architect), saying, “We can do better.” This house was the first of the two Erdman Prefab models, and it sold immediately.   Erdman Prefab I was offered in a variety of materials (stone, brick, block, wood), and several were erected, but this first example has rarely been open to the public since it was purchased by Eugene Van Tamelen in 1956.     Unitarian Meeting House, (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1947) (completed 1951) Wright, whose maternal family brought Unitarianism with them to Wisconsin from Wales, not only designed this church but he joined it. The distinctive prow of the sanctuary and the materials—stone, plaster, copper, and glass—have influenced ecclesiastical and commercial architecture around the U.S., leading scholars to select the meeting house as one of forty Wright structures worthy of National Historic Landmark designation. Taliesin Architects designed the addition west of the parking lot.   Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center (Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects, 1995-97) One of the most controversial buildings of Wright’s career, Monona Terrace was finally constructed nearly sixty years after its conception, in 1938. The struggle divided the Madison community for decades. Taliesin Architects used Wright’s own 1959 version of the terrace (one of several versions) as the basis for the Community and Convention Center, which opened to national fanfare in 1997.   Harold Bradley House, (Louis Sullivan, 1909) Wright’s “lieber meister,” Louis Sullivan, became the follower of his apprentice in the design for this great Prairie School house of 1909. Sullivan enriched the house, which has a cruciform plan, with his characteristic ornamentation. It has been the chapter house of the Sigma Phi Society since 1915, was badly damaged in a 1972 fire, and has been painstakingly restored. Original furniture and fixtures survive throughout the house.    Gates-Fulwiler House, (E. Edward Linville, 1995) New Urbanism attracted the interest of Marshall Erdman in the 1980s and 1990s resulting in Middleton Hills, a subdivision on former farmland that partially overlooks Lake Mendota and central Madison. The spirit of the Prairie School which prevails in most dwellings appealed to Jan Fulwiler and Robin Gates, early residents in Middleton Hills.    Exterior Tour Only Mary Ellen and Walter Rudin House (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1957) (constructed, 1959) The Rudins purchased the second style of Erdman Prefab (known both as “B” and “2” and designed originally in 1957) at Madison’s 1959 Parade of Homes, shortly after Frank Lloyd Wright’s death. It is a large, open-plan house that is available for a walk-around tour only at Wright and Like. The Rudins are retired UW-Madison mathematicians and still occupy the house they bought forty-four years ago.     ### Future link: Click here to download the tour brochure (PDF format) Final details are subject to change!  Wright in Madison Trolley Tour - June 8, 2003, Noon - 2:00PM   Sorry, this event is SOLD OUT! Check back to see if we are able to add another Trolley   Travel Frank Lloyd Wright’s Madison on a trolley with two local Wright scholars, Jack Holzhueter and Mary Jane Hamilton.  Neighborhoods, projects, buildings, history and stories will entertain you on this non-stop adventure. The round trip tour leaves from (and returns to) the main entrance of Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, located at One John Nolen Drive.  Tickets are $30 per person and are available by reservation only. Reservation deadline is May 1. Sorry, no discounts available for this limited-seating special event.   Tour Headquarters - Saturday, June 7, 2003 Tickets may be purchased in advance or on the day of the tour at the Wright and Like tour headquarters at the Unitarian Meeting House, 900 University Bay Drive, open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Booths selling Wright-related items also will be open: Shining Brow Booksellers - used and hard-to-find books about Wright   Monona Terrace Gift Shop - selected Wright-designed objects for the home   Jewelry - handmade with salvaged copper from the replaced roof of the Meeting House.   New Book Sale - special prices for Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace: The Enduring Power of a Civic Vision by Mary Jane Hamilton and David Mollenhoff, and Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School in Wisconsin by Kristin Visser. Drive-by Sites The following buildings are not on the tour but are nearby and merit special attention:  ###   Wright Sites - A Drive Away Seth Peterson Cottage, Lake Delton Open House and Tours Sunday, June 8 from 1-4 p.m. 608-254-6051 for visitor information or www.SethPeterson.org Taliesin, Spring Green Open daily for tours; reservations are required for some 608-588-7900 for visitor information or www.TaliesinPreservation.org Annual Rare and Used Book Sale Shining Brow Booksellers will again have it's extensive collection of rare and used, and out-of-print books and periodicals by and about Frank Lloyd Wright® available for purchase. All profits from this sale will benefit the Frank Lloyd Wright® Wisconsin Advanced & Online Tickets / Registration Purchasing tickets in advance is highly recommended to avoid lines the day of the tour and sell-outs.  For ticket information call the Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Program Office, (608) 287-0339. Tickets and maps will be sent after May 1st.  Sorry no cancellations. Online Ticket Sales    Sorry, online ticket sales ended June 2nd to allow enough time for tickets to reach our guest via mail. Our online ticket services are provided as a service of Shining Brow Booksellers.  We encourage you to buy event tickets online by selecting one of the links below. You will be transferred to the Shining Brow Bookseller website to complete your purchase.  PLEASE NOTE:  The Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Program will process your online purchase made through Shining Brow Booksellers.  The charge will appear on your statement as: "FLW WI Heritage Progra"  Also, Shining Brow normally charges $4.30 Shipping on each order.  The shipping charge shows up when you "check out" for tickets and membership.  YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED TAX or SHIPPING when we process your order.     You can also purchase tickets by calling our Madison, Wisconsin office at (608) 287-0339. Then you can pick up your ticket packet at the Wright and Like Tour Headquarters at the Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, Wisconsin.  NOTE: Our Madison office has extra volunteer staffing during the first week of June. However, you may still get voice mail.  Please don't hesitate to leave a message and the volunteers or staff will get back to you as soon as possible. Mailing Address: FLLW WHTP P0 Box 6339 Madison, WI 53716-0339 Membership can be purchased online!   Our online services are provided courtesy of Shining Brow Booksellers.  We encourage you to buy your membership and event tickets online by selecting one of the links below. You will be transferred to the Shining Brow Bookseller website to complete your purchase.  PLEASE NOTE:  The Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Program, Inc. will process your online purchase made through Shining Brow.  The charge will appear on your statement as: "FLW WI Heritage Progra"  Also, Shining Brow normally charges $4.30 Shipping on each order.  The shipping charge shows up when you "check out" for tickets and membership.  YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED SHIPPING when we process your order. Click here to become a member  Dining and Lodging  For dining and lodging information in Madison, contact the Greater Madison Convention and Visitors Bureau at 800-373-6376 or www.visitmadison.com   www.travelwisconsin.com Related Sites While you are in the area, you may wish to visit some of these Wright sites in Southern Wisconsin: Taliesin (Spring Green)  for tour program information contact www.taliesinpreservation.org or call 608-588-7900. Seth Peterson Cottage (Lake Delton In Mirror Lake State Park) for information contact www.sethpeterson.org Unitarian Meeting Mouse (Madison) Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center (Madison) for tour program and information contact www.mononaterrace.com/ Past and Future Tours: Wright and Like 2004 will be announced in the Fall of 2003. Wright and Like 2002: A Wisconsin Road Trip Wright and Like 2001: Delavan Lake Tour Wright and Like 2000: Spring Green Wright and Like 1999: Milwaukee Wright and Like 1998: Racine Wright and Like 1997: Madison Wright and Like 1996: South Central WI In-kind contributions for this years tour: Brochure Design Services Marketlink, Inc.   http://www.marketlink.cc/index.html