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Frank Lloyd Wright's Scottsdale, Ariz., home-known as Taliesin West, winter home of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation-is being subdivided.
Not to worry. Only 25 acres of the 600-acre educational, architectural and social compound are going to be developed along with an adjacent 50 acres, recently purchased. Funds from the sale of about 54 single-family homes built there will go to existing Taliesin West facilities and programs.
Originally a desert camp, Taliesin West was built by the renowned architect and his wife, Olgivanna Lloyd Wright, in 1937, five years after they built their 600-acre home near Spring Green, Wisc., known as "Taliesin," a Welsh word meaning "shining brow" and symbolizing inspiration. Wright died in 1959. His wife, who devoted her life to keeping his work alive, died last March.
Not to worry again. Wright's work will continue to live through the foundation, the two National Landmark facilities (Taliesin and Taliesin West), the Taliesin Council, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Friends of Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright Archives and Research Center, and Taliesin Associated Architects, designers of all but five or six of the 54 homes planned at the gate of Taliesin West.
The other half a dozen homes were already designed by the master himself. Jim McKeehan, president of Management Associates (construction managers of the project), noted that the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives have "at least 60 to 80 houses designed by Mr. Wright that were never built, and from time to time, one of these houses is pulled...