Fig. 11. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Figs. 12, 13. Photographs by author
Fig. 14. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Fig. 15. Photograph by author
Fig. 16. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Fig. 17. Author’s collection
Fig. 18. Photograph by author
Figs. 19, 20. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Fig. 21. Author’s collection
Fig. 22. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Fig. 23. Author’s collection
Fig. 24. The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Photograph © The State Hermitage Museum/photograph by Vladimir Terebenin Leonard Kheifets, Yuri Molodkovets
Figs. 25–27. Courtesy of Claes Von Heiroth, all rights reserved
Fig. 28. Craig Wilson, Kite Aerial Photography
Fig. 29. Spring Green, George Mann Niedecken, oil on canvas, 1912, Jody and Dick Golsman Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum
Fig. 30. Craig Wilson, Kite Aerial Photography
Fig. 31. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25569)
Fig. 31.a. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25568)
Fig. 31.b. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25566)
Fig. 31.c. Montage by Roger Daleiden
Fig. 32. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25567)
Fig. 32.a. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25571)
Fig. 33. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25570)
Fig. 34. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25565)
Fig. 35. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25559)
Fig. 36. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25564)
Fig. 37. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25558)
Fig. 38. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–85168)
Fig. 39. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–30463)
Fig. 40. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–3879)
Fig. 41. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–4010)
Fig. 42. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–4009)
Fig. 43. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–10204)
Fig. 44. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–33372)
Fig. 45. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–40006)
Fig. 46. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25560)
Fig. 47. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–4008)
Fig. 48. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25548)
Fig. 49. © Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona
Fig. 50. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–25556)
Figs. 51–53. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Figs. 54–64. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved
Fig. 65. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Fig. 66. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29066)
Fig. 67. Special Collections department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Fig. 68. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29071)
Figs. 69–79. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved
Fig. 80. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–290777)
Figs. 81–86. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved
Fig. 87. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29058)
Fig. 88. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29048)
Fig. 89. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29051)
Fig. 90. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–28951)
Fig. 91. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29056)
Fig. 92. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29054)
Fig. 93. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29053)
Figs. 94–96. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved
Fig. 97. © Pedro E. Guerrero
Fig. 98. Courtesy of Elizabeth Catherine Wright
Fig. 99. Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust
Fig. 100. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Fig. 101. Maginel Wright Barney, artist. Catherine Wright and Children, ca. 1905, pastel on paper, 29.625 x 22.187 in. (in frame), Collection of Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, gift of Thomas and Mary Wright, 1976.07. Photographer: Philip Mrozinaki
Fig. 102. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Figs. 103–105. Used by permission, Utah State Historical Society, all rights reserved
Fig. 106. Author’s collection
Fig. 107. Courtesy of Butch Kmet
Pages 109–113: Combined thumbnails of Taylor A. Woolley photographs courtesy of Utah State Historical Society, Wisconsin Historical Society, and J. Willard Marriott Library Department of Special Collections, University of Utah
Fig. 108. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–23788)
Fig. 109. Floyd Dell in 1914, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; gift of John Sloan Dickey, Class of 1929
Fig. 110. Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867–1959) © ARS, NY. Living room from the Little House, Wayzata, Minnesota. 1912–1915. H. 13ft. 8 in. (4.17 m), L. 46 ft. (14 m), W. 28 ft. (8.52 m). Purchase, Emily Crane Chadbourne Bequest, 1972 (1972.60.1). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource, NY and © 2013 Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, AZ / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Fig. 111. © Pedro E. Guerrero
Fig. 112. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Figs. 113, 114. Courtesy of Carla Wright
Figs. 115–117. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Fig. 118. Frank Lloyd Wright, American, 1867–1959, Avery Coonley Playhouse: Triptych Window, 1912, Clear and colored glass in oak frames. Art Institute of Chicago
Fig. 119. New York Times obituary photograph
Fig. 120. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Fig. 121. Author’s collection
Fig. 122. Lake County (Illinois) discovery Museum, Curt Teich Postcard Archive
Fig. 123. From the collection of Brian Spencer / Architect
Fig. 123.a. Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867–1959), Plate from Midway gardens (Chicago), 1913, Porcelain, 7 5/8 in. (19.37 cm.), Milwaukee Art Museum, Gift of George Talbot, Madison, WI M1978.259, Photograph credit John R. Glembla
Fig. 124. Lake County (Illinois) discovery Museum, Curt Teich Postcard Archive
Fig. 125. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Fig. 126. Courtesy of Hedda Jansson, Strand
Fig. 127. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–29074)
Figs. 128, 129. Courtesy of Hedda Jansson, Strand
Fig. 130. Einar Nielsen, Ellen Key, © Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Fig. 131–133. Courtesy of Björn Sjunnesson
Fig. 134, 135. Author’s collection
Fig. 136. Courtesy of Björn Sjunnesson
Figs. 137–141. Author’s collection
Fig. 142. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Fig. 143. Author’s collection
Fig. 144. Ellen Key Archive, Royal Library of Sweden, Stockholm
Fig. 145. Wisconsin Historical Socie
ty (WHI–25065)
Figs. 146, 147. Courtesy of Björn Sjunnesson
Fig. 148. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–72185)
Fig: 149: Library of Congress, negative No. LC USZ 62 90042
Fig. 150: Library of Congress, negative No. LC USZ 62 106490
Fig. 151. Home News, Spring Green, Wisconsin
Fig. 152. General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Washington, DC. www.gfwc.org
Fig. 153. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83126)
Fig. 154. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83017)
Fig. 155. Department of Rare Books and Collections, University of Rochester
Fig. 156. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83018)
Fig. 157. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83114)
Fig. 158. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83119)
Fig. 159. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83010)
Fig. 160. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–35055)
Fig. 161. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83113)
Figs. 162, 163. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–83123)
Fig. 164. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–55871)
Fig. 166. Wisconsin Historical Society (WHI–55870)
Fig. 167. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Fig. 168. Courtesy of Patrick Mahoney
Figs. 169–175. Office of the Iowa County Clerk, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Fig. 176. Dodgeville Chronicle, Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Figs. 177–178. Ellen Key Archive, Royal Library of Sweden
Fig. 179. Hedda Jansson, Strand
Fig. 180. Courtesy the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation Archives (The Museum of Modern Art | Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University). All rights reserved.
Fig. 181. From Edna Meudt, The Rose Jar (Madison: North Country Press, 1990), reprinted with permission
Fig. 182. Courtesy of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Scottsdale, Arizona
Fig. 183. Author’s collection
Fig. 184. Author’s collection
Fig. 185. Author’s collection. Photograph by Mark Hertzberg
Fig. 186. Special Collections Department, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ron McCrea is a prize-winning journalist and former Alicia Patterson Fellow who worked on the news desks of New York Newsday, the San Jose Mercury News, the Washington Post, the Washington Star, the Boston Globe, and The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, where he served for a decade as city editor and also, previously, as editor of the Madison Press Connection. He appears in the E! Entertainment Network’s documentary Mysteries and Scandals: Frank Lloyd Wright and the BBC’s Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth and Modernism, and wrote the script for “The Making of Monona Terrace: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Last Public Building,” which took finalist honors at the New York Film Festival. He serves on the board of directors of AIA Wisconsin/The Wisconsin Society of Architects, as a professional affiliate member and was the communications director for Wisconsin governor Tony Earl. He holds degrees from Albion College and the Fletcher School of law and diplomacy at Tufts University and lives in Madison.
INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
Abraham Lincoln Center (Chicago), 52
Addams, Jane, 52, 56, 137
adultery: Borthwick-Wright scandal as, 3, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 57, 123–29, 131–32, 136, 139, 158, 161, 162, 202–3
African Americans: as Hillside Home School students, 54, 56; Jenkin Lloyd Jones on, 52; Julian and gertrude Carlton as, 192, 197; Richard Lloyd Jones on, 58n.32
Aguar, Charles and Berdeana, 179
air shows, 29, 29
All Souls Church (Chicago), 52
Alofsin, Anthony, 9, 10, 21, 25, 120n.2, 131
Amadeus (Shaffer), 29
The American magazine, 153, 157–58
Amusements at Gotenyama (Hiroshige), 150
Anderson, Margaret, 8, 56, 154, 160
Arata Endo, 134
Architectural Record, 4, 133
The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Levine), 9
Arizona. See Taliesin West
“The Art and Craft of the Machine” (Wright), 56
Art Institute of Chicago: Wright’s Hiroshige print show at, 134; Wright’s 1914 show at, 11, 80, 104, 137, 141, 142, 144, 145, 162
Arts and Crafts movement, 9, 36
Ashbee, Charles, 23, 27, 133
Ashbee, Janet, 23, 25
The Atlantic Monthly, 158
Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. See Wasmuth Portfolio (Studies and Executed Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright)
Autobiography (Wright), 114, 136; Borthwick’s absence from, 5–6, 8–9, 170n.71; on “natural” house, 114–19; on natural world, 35–36; reason for writing, 8; on Taliesin fire, 191; on Zona Gale, 166
Avery Coonley Playhouse, 6, 35, 105, 135–37, 137–39, 144; model of, 145; as self-contained world, 131
Baker, Ray Stannard, 157
“balloons-and-confetti” designs. See “kindersymphony” design
Bank of Wisconsin, ix
Barney, Maginel Wright (Wright’s sister). See Wright, Maginel
Barnsdall, Aline, 56
Bauhaus style, 9, 134
Baxter, Anne, 106
BBC, 10
Beauty for All (Key), 9
Beauty in the Home (Key), 9, 149, 151
Behrens, Peter, 133
Bendix, Max, 143
Berlin (Germany), 17, 25, 154
Bible, 50
Blake, William, 118
Bock, Richard, 74, 143, 145
Boehm, Fraulein, 154
Bogutslawsky, Auralis K., 155–56, 160
Bohrer, Florence Fifer, 53–54
Booth, Sherman, 123
Borthwick, Elizabeth V. (Lizzie), 24–25, 161, 162
Borthwick, Mamah (Martha) Bouton: background of, 56, 151; burial of, 7, 193; cemetery marker of, 8, 8, 193; children of, 3, 24–25, 57, 151, 154, 161, 170n.81, 184, 185; divorce of, 3, 8, 15, 25, 57, 123, 154, 202; in europe, 4, 5, 14, 15, 17, 25, 28, 29–30, 105, 153, 154; as feminist, 6, 8, 11, 51, 56, 166, 202; financial independence of, 132, 147, 155; Key’s criticism of Wright and, 3, 147, 149, 155, 168; as Key’s translator, 3, 8, 9, 11, 19, 56, 127–28, 131, 133, 147, 151, 153–58, 160–61, 166, 168; letters of, discovery of, 147; letters of, to Key, 3, 9, 11, 17, 19, 24, 27, 128, 136, 139, 156–58, 157, 160, 161–62, 195; murder of, 5, 68, 189, 192, 193, 197; names used by, 8, 8, 25–26, 31n.1, 32n.19, 147, 148; personality and character of, 156–57, 158, 160–61, 168, 202–3; photos of, 3, 61, 147, 197, 202; scandal of Wright’s relationship with, 3, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 57, 123–29, 131–32, 136, 139, 158, 161, 162, 202–3; stays at Tanyderi before moving to Taliesin, 3, 24, 35, 57, 161; at Taliesin, 3–5, 60, 123–29, 154, 161–62, 198; Taliesin I built for, 5, 10, 36, 192; visit to Key by, 146, 148, 149, 154; Wright’s lies about, 25; Wright’s omission of, in his autobiography, 5–6, 8–9, 170n.71
Bossard, Marcus, 192
Boyle, T. C., 12n.12
Brodelle, Emil, 138, 141, 189, 192, 194, 196
Browne, Maurice, 56
Browning, Robert, 56, 151
Brunker, Thomas, 189, 193, 194
Bryn Mawr Hill (near Taliesin), 37
“bungalow,” 175. See also Taliesin
Burns, Ken, 10
California: Woolley in, 60, 61, 133; Wright in, ix
Canada: Borthwick with her children in, 23, 25, 154
The Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), 10
Carbondale (Illinois) Daily Free Press, 126
Carlton, Gertrude, 189, 192, 196
Carlton, Julian, 5, 188–89, 191–94, 196–98, 201, 202, 207; death certificate for, 195; murder weapon used by, 18
8; photo of, 195
Casa Ricci (Fiesole), 30
Catherine Wright and Children (Barney), 105
The Century of the Child (Key), 149
Cheney, Edwin (Borthwick’s husband): Borthwick’s candor with, 21, 23; Borthwick’s divorce from, 3, 8, 15, 23, 25, 57, 123, 154, 202; Borthwick’s marriage to, 151; Borthwick’s sister as living in home of, 24–25, 161, 162; remarriage of, 25, 161, 202; Taliesin burial expenses of, 193; at Taliesin murder scene, 191, 201
Cheney, Elsie Millor (the second Mrs. Edwin Cheney), 25, 162, 202
Cheney, John (Borthwick’s son), 151, 170n.81; in Canada with Borthwick, 23, 25, 154; custody and care of, 3, 24–25, 57, 161; murder of, 5, 68, 189, 193, 202; summers at Taliesin, 25, 184, 185, 188, 189, 200, 202–3
Cheney, Mamah Bouton Borthwick. See Borthwick, Mamah Bouton
Cheney, Martha (Borthwick’s daughter), 151, 170n.81; in Canada with Borthwick, 23, 25, 154; custody and care of, 3, 24–25, 57, 161; murder of, 5, 68, 189, 191, 193, 193, 200–201, 202; summers at Taliesin, 25, 184, 185, 188, 189, 200, 202–3
Chicago (Illinois): goethe Street townhouse plans for, 7, 25, 144; Hillside Home School students from, 51, 53, 57; Jenkin Lloyd Jones in, 52; press scandal in, regarding Wright-Borthwick relationship, 57, 123–25, 127–29, 131, 136, 161, 162, 202; Wright moves to, following Taliesin fire and murders, 198; Wright’s architectural office in, 60, 195. See also Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago Renaissance; Midway Gardens; Oak Park (Illinois); specific institutions, homes, and people in
Chicago Architectural Club, 104, 137, 142, 144, 162
Chicago Evening Post Friday Literary Review, 11, 127–28, 154
Chicago Opera Theater, 6, 7
Chicago Renaissance, 56, 127
Chicago Tribune: on Midway Gardens, 143–44; and Wright-Borthwick relationship, 57, 123–25, 127–29, 136, 161, 202
China, 177
Christian Science, 137
Civil War, 51–52
Clementson, George, 197
Cole, A., 132
Collier’s magazine, 55
The Common Lot (Herrick), 56
Coonley, Avery, 135, 137
Coonley, Prentiss, 137
Coonley, Queen Ferry, 135, 137, 137–39
Coonley Playhouse. See Avery Coonley Playhouse
Corbeil, Karen, 170n.81
Current Literature magazine, 154
Dana, Susan Lawrence: house of, 16, 27, 74, 105