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Friday, June 6th, 2008, 6-9:00pm
Special Event: The Gobbler Gala

Saturday, June 7th, 2008, 9am-5pm
Wright and Like: On The Road Again Tour

Sunday, June 8th, 2008, 10:30am
Birthday Brunch at the Greenberg House, Dousman

Special Event: The Gobbler Gala

Friday, June 6th, 2008, 6 - 9:00 pm

This is your chance to experience the Gobbler Supper Club, a 1969 highway icon between Madison and Milwaukee. Built by a visionary entrepreneur, the restaurant was conceived to enhance the role of Tom Turkey as an all-American, all-season delicacy. Enjoy a gourmet catered turkey dinner with all the trimmings, wine and dessert of local handmade chocolates. Hear a discussion of this extraordinary building by its' architect Helmut Ajango, AIA, Jefferson, WI, and Wright scholar and architectural historian Sidney Robinson, formerly of the University of Illinois-Chicago, and now of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. Tour this futurist building and explore its uniqueness.

Copyright Helmut Ajango, AIA

A very special Silent Auction runs throughout the evening.

Reservations required. $75 per person

Wright and Like: On The Road Again Tour

Saturday, June 7th, 2008, 9:00 am - 5 pm

Tour Headquarters | The Gobbler Restaurant, I-94 and Highway 26 Centrally located in Johnson Creek, WI

The Gobbler Restaurant, a not-to-be-missed futurist style building, will be our one day tour headquarters. The site is located south of Interstate Highway 94 (Exit 267) off Hwy 26 and will open at 8 a.m. for ticket and merchandise sales. Same day tickets are $55 (non members) and $50 (members). Our well-known vendors (Shining Brow Booksellers, purveyors of hard-to-find books and printed ephemera by and about Wright, and Monona Terrace Gift Shop, with Wright-related gifts and Prairie Style objects for the home) will be on hand. Restrooms and drinking water will also be available.

Sites:

Tour private homes and building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and "like" architects. Guides will be present at each site to present information about the buildings, See site details below.

Dr. Maurice and Mrs. Margaret Greenberg House Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954 - Dousman, WI After visiting Taliesin, Dr. Greenberg knew instantly that he wanted Frank Lloyd Wright to design a home for him. Similar to Taliesin, the Greenberg House nestles into the brow of its hill. Walls of glass in the spacious living room provide broad views over the surrounding treetops. The current homeowners, who bought the house a few years ago after Dr. Greenberg passed away, plan to add the master bedroom suite and a workshop as originally designed by Wright.
The Stanley & Harriet Schirmir House John Randal McDonald, 1958 - Oconomowoc, WI Racine native John Randal McDonald followed Wright's principles but developed his own interpretations and style as seen in his design for this house on Lower Nemahbin Lake in Oconomowoc. The structure echoes a Jacobs II-like hemicycle, with cullet glass windows reminiscent of Bruce Goff's Ford House in Aurora, IL, owned by Friday's guest speaker Sidney Robinson. The Schirmirs did most of the work on this house themselves.
Richard C. and Berenice Smith House Frank Lloyd Wright, 1950 - Jefferson, WI This one-story house built of limestone, plaster, cypress, and cedar shingles is strikingly wrapped around a huge oak tree on a small city lot in Jefferson, WI, and oriented toward the golf course to the south. Mr. Smith was a local attorney who lived in the house for thirty-six years, through three marriages. In the early '90s architect John Eifler was hired by subsequent owners to rehabilitate the house. The current homeowner is continuing the restoration, having it reroofed this spring.
E. Clarke and Julie Arnold House Frank Lloyd Wright, 1954 - Columbus, WI This low one-story home is built of Wisconsin limestone, redwood board and-batten, and glass. It is one of Wright's diamond module homes, a form he used in the Kinney House, the Smith House and a number of other homes he designed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In this design, all the angles are either 60 degrees or 120 degrees. Wright apprentice John H. Howe designed a third wing in 1959, which established the final Y-shaped plan of the house. Reroofing is also underway here.
Dr. Arnold and Mrs. Lora Jackson House Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956 - Beaver Dam, WI Moved from its original Madison site to Beaver Dam when the property was sold for commercial development, "Skyview" was the second of Marshall Erdman & Associates' Pre-Fab Number 1 designs constructed. Looking as contemporary today as when it was built, Skyview is now comfortably settled into the hillside of its new neighborhood.
Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Quall House Russell Barr Williamson, 1952 Russell Barr Williamson worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on several Milwaukee houses before striking out on his own in the early 1920s. In the mid-1900s, he built a series of tripartite houses including this one, set on the shores of Beaver Dam Lake. The use of natural materials, the principles of organic design and the lakefront setting make this functional and beautiful house feel like a vacation retreat.
Jim and Ruby Maloney House John Randal McDonald, 1957 Although John Randal McDonald never studied with Wright, his homes share the ground-hugging shapes and strong horizontal lines so often at play in Wright's work. Turning its back on the street in true Wrightian fashion, the better to embrace Beaver Dam Lake, this elegantly executed lakeside home exemplifies the best of contemporary living.
The Farmers and Merchants Union Bank Louis Sullivan, 1919 Louis Sullivan's last major commission features the trademarks of his previous "jewel box" banks in other Midwest towns-corner location, rectilinear massing, ornate terra-cotta decoration, and an arcade of arched windows. (Watch for it in Johnny Depp's upcoming Dillinger movie.) The building remains a bank to this day, beautifully and proudly maintained. Sensitive additions were made in 1958 and again in 1980 to keep up with necessities of business.

Special Event: Frank Lloyd Wright's Birthday Brunch

Sunday, June 8th, 2008, 10:30 am

Sing "Happy Birthday" to Frank Lloyd Wright and join us at a Birthday Brunch on his 141st birthday. Experience a stunning Wright site-specific house set on a boulder-strewn hill overlooking the woods of the Kettle Moraine area. Meet the current homeowners; enjoy light brunch fare, coffee and a piece of birthday cake for breakfast.

$50 per person. Reservations required.

Space is very limited. This event will sell out!

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