by Ron McCrea
Davidson, James O., 55
Davies, John, 134
Davies, Ben, 118
Davis, Cynthia J., 172n.107
Davis, Dan, 119
Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders (Drennan), 10
The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright (Hanks), 9
Dell, Floyd, 10–11, 127–28, 129, 154, 167–68
Democratic Party, 51
DeSmidt, Elaine, 10, 14, 18, 208
Des Moines News, 125
De Stijl Movement, 134
Dewey, John, 138
The Dial, 162, 171n.96
divorce: Borthwick and Cheney’s, 3, 8, 15, 25, 57, 123, 154, 202; Catherine Wright’s refusal of, 3, 57, 128; in Lloyd Jones family, 57. See also marriage
Dodgeville (Wisconsin) Chronicle: on Hillside School, 52, 53; on Julian Carlton, 195; on Taliesin, 56, 175; on Wright-Borthwick scandal, 128; Wright’s letter to, 57, 131; on Wright’s trip to Japan, 136
Drennan, William R., 10, 197
Driftless Area (of Wisconsin), 36
Drummond, William, 135
E! Entertainment Network, 10
earthquakes, 141
Eaton, Leonard K., 137
eBay, 4, 5, 10
“Education for Motherhood” (Key), 158
Ellis, Havelock, 8, 154, 158, 160
Ellwanger & Barry’s Mount Hope Nurseries, 176–77, 194–95
Ely, Richard T., 51
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 50, 53, 56
Enright, Maginel Wright (Wright’s sister). See Wright, Maginel
Enright, Pat, 179
Etruscan remains (in Fiesole), 17, 18, 20
Europe: Lizzie Borthwick in, 24–25; Lloyd Wright in, 17, 23, 27, 29, 105; Mamah Borthwick in, 4, 5, 14, 15, 17, 25, 28, 29–30, 105, 153, 154; Wasmuth Portfolio sales in, 133, 134; Woolley in, 4, 17, 21, 27, 29, 105. See also specific places in
Evans, Clifford P., 4, 10, 57, 60, 183; photos of, 60, 62, 87, 108, 212
Fairbanks (Alaska) Citizen, 126
Fallingwater (Pennsylvania), 79
Faulkner, Elizabeth Coonley, 137, 139
feminism: Borthwick’s, 6, 8, 11, 51, 56, 166, 202; Gilman’s, 166–67. See also marriage: reform of; motherhood; women’s suffrage
Fici, Filippo, 25, 31n.1
Fiedler, Ernest C., 197
Fiedler, John, 199n.23
Fiedler, Patrick, 199n.23
Fiesole (Italy): Borthwick and Wright in, 4, 5, 14, 15, 17, 28, 29–30, 105; etruscan remains in, 17, 18, 20; as inspiration for Taliesin, 4, 15, 19, 20, 21, 24, 27, 35, 177, 179; as puppet theater scenery, 11, 18, 105; Roman remains in, 17, 22, 26; Woolley in, 4, 17, 21, 27, 29, 105. See also Villino Belvedere (Fiesole)
fireplaces: in Avery Coonley Playhouse, 136; in Taliesin, 76–79, 87, 117, 118, 119, 180, 189
First Unitarian Meeting House (Madison, Wisconsin), 79
Florence (Italy), 15, 17, 27, 29. See also Fiesole (Italy)
“Flower in the Crannied Wall” statue (Taliesin), 74, 75, 159, 181
Fonte Della Ginevra villa (Florence), 17, 27, 29
The Forerunner magazine, 165, 168
The Fra magazine, 156
Francis Little House, 6. See also Little, Francis
Francis W. Parker School (Chicago), 195
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography (Secrest), 9
Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth and Modernism (BBC documentary), 10
Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1923 (Alofsin), 9
Frank Lloyd Wright and Midway Gardens (Kruty), 143
Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan (Meech), 9, 36
Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy (Chicago), 10
Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (Taliesin West), 8
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Taliesin West (Smith), 12n.13
Friedman, Alice T., 9
Fries, Mrs. A. E. B., 158
Fritz, Herbert, 102, 157, 161, 165, 189, 197
Fritz, Mary Olava Larson, 102, 157, 161
Froebel, Friedrich, 53, 55, 56, 138
Fuermann, Clarence, 4–5, 12n.14, 145, 159, 176
Gale, Zona, 164, 199n.18; on Gilman, 167; and Olgivanna Wright, 172n.108; at Taliesin, 11, 56, 166; Wright’s romantic interest in, 5, 166
gardens: contour and grid tillage of Taliesin’s, 101, 177, 179; at Imperial Hotel, 140; at Midway gardens, 141; Taliesin’s flower, 2, 7, 175, 176, 177, 193; Taliesin’s vegetable, 4, 5, 60, 101, 115, 116, 117, 174, 177–78, 178, 179
General Federation of Women’s Clubs (Chicago), 164, 167
Germany. See Berlin (germany)
Gesamtkunstwerke, 140, 143
Getty Museum (Los Angeles), 9
Gill, Brendan, 9
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 11, 162, 164, 164–68
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 8, 204–5
Goethe Street townhouse plans (Chicago), 7, 25, 144
Gookin, Frederick, 134, 136, 140
Goss, Peter, 12n.14
Great Depression, 8
Gropius, Walter, 133
Gurdjieff, George, 8, 172n.108
Hacker, Jonah, 30
Hagen, Daron, 6, 10
Hanks, David, 9
Harris, Brenda, 6
Harrod, Whitney, 11
Hatcher, Jeffrey, 10
Hayashi Aisaku, 139
Hearst newspapers, 123
Heiroth, Alexander (Sasha) von, 27, 29, 30, 30, 31, 32n.31
Heiroth, Algar, 29, 30
Heiroth, Claes von, 27, 29
Heiroth, Marie Sophie (Mascha) von, 27, 29, 29–30, 30, 31, 32n.31
“Hemma” (Key), 157
Henry Fuermann and Sons (Chicago), 4
Herrick, Robert, 56
Hillside (Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones’ residence), 35. See also Hillside Home School
Hillside Home School: activities at, 46–49, 52–56, 165, 166; brochure for, 36, 52; Chicago students at, 51, 53, 57; closing of, 195–96; financial difficulties of, 57; La Follette children at, 52, 53; photos of, 10, 51, 92; photos of land around, 37–49; Progressive tenets of, 52; Romeo and Juliet windmill at, 35, 45, 48, 114; near Taliesin, 114, 162; workers at, 200; Wright-Borthwick scandal’s effects on, 131–32; Wright children as students at, 53, 56; Wright commissioned to build, 35, 51, 53, 92; Wright’s purchase of, 196. See also Lloyd Jones, Ellen (Nell); Lloyd Jones, Jane (Jennie)
Hiroshige Utagawa: prints of, 134, 147, 150, 155
Home News. See Spring Green (Wisconsin) Home News
Horan, Nancy, 10
Hovey, Richard, 104, 114
Howe, Frederic, 55
Hubbard, Elbert and Alice, 156
Huebsch, B. W. (publisher), 151, 155–56, 160, 166
Hull House (Chicago), 52, 56
Humanity (Key), 157
“A Hymn to Nature” (goethe), 8, 204–5
Iannelli, Alfonso, 143, 145
Ibsen and Women (Key). See Torpedo Under the Ark: Ibsen and Women (Key) Ice Age (in Wisconsin), 36
Imperial Hotel (Tokyo), 6, 134, 138, 139, 139–41, 144, 162, 194; model of, 145; as self-contained world, 131, 141
Index to the Taliesin Correspondence (ed. Alofsin), 9
Ingraham, Elizabeth Wright, 57
Iowa County Fairgrounds, 194, 198
Iowa County Jail (dodgeville, Wisconsin), 191, 196
Italy. See Fiesole (Italy); Florence (Italy)
J. Willard Marriott library. See University of Utah
James, Ada, 165, 171n.95
Janesville (Wisconsin), 52
Japan: Borthwick in, 5, 6, 131, 139, 162; Catherine Tobin Wright in, 134; influence of, on Wright, 37, 179; men from, at Taliesin, 134; Wright as dealer in art from, 6, 131, 134, 139, 147, 156, 194; Wright in, ix, 5, 6, 131, 134, 136, 139, 166. See also Imperial Hotel (Tokyo)
The Japanese Print: An Interpretation (Wright), 6, 131, 133, 134
Jean-Christophe (Rolland), 160
Jensen, Jens, 137, 176, 179, 194–95
Jesus, 50
Johanness
on, lena, 9, 147, 158, 161, 170n.71
Jones family members. See Lloyd Jones
Jones Valley (Wisconsin), 35, 188; photos of, 10, 37–49, 94, 95; Progressive movement in, 50–55;
Taliesin in, 56
Joyce, James, 154
Jul Kvälen, 156, 161
Kanto earthquake, 141
Key, Ellen Sofia, 146, 148, 156, 162, 197; “alternative” Nobel Prize for, 149; Borthwick as translator for, 3, 8, 9, 11, 19, 56, 127–28, 131, 133, 147, 151, 153–58, 160–61, 166, 168; Borthwick’s letters to, 3, 9, 11, 17, 19, 24, 27, 128, 136, 139, 147, 156–58, 157, 160, 161–62, 195; Borthwick’s visit to, 146, 148, 149, 154; criticism of Borthwick and Wright by, 3, 147, 149, 155, 168; doublecrosses Borthwick, 151, 155–58, 168; Gilman as nemesis of, 11, 162, 166, 167–68; as inspiration for Borthwick and Wright, 19, 153, 155, 161, 199, 203; on motherhood, 11, 147, 149, 158, 162, 168; and Scandinavian style, 9, 148, 149, 151, 163; Wright and, 9, 147, 148–49, 198–99. See also Strand; titles of works by
“kindersymphony” design, 6, 9, 104, 136, 137, 138
Kmet, Butch, 10, 108
Knight, Denise, 172n.107
Kritz, John, 188, 191, 200, 201, 201
Kritz, Kristin (later, Edna Meudt), 188, 191, 192, 200–201, 201
Kritz, Kristine (Mrs. John), 201
Kruty, Paul, 143
Ku Klux Klan, 58n.32
Ladies Home Journal, 16
La Follette, Belle Case, 52, 53, 55
La Follette, Mary, 52, 53
La Follette, Philip F., 52, 53
La Follette, Robert Marion, Jr., 52, 53
La Follette, Robert Marion, Sr. (Fighting Bob), 50, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55
La Follette’s Weekly Magazine, 55
Lake Vättern (Sweden), 146, 148, 152, 156
Lane, Barbara Miller, 149
Larkin building model, 69
Larson, Alfred, 102
Lazovich, Olgivanna. See Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd (Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright)
Le Corbusier, 133
The Legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright (PBS documentary), 10
Legislative Reference Bureau (Wisconsin), 55
Leipzig (Germany), 17
Lend-a-Hand Club, 56, 164
Levine, Neil, 9, 141, 179
Levy, Harriet Lane, 30, 31
Liebe und Ethik (Key). See Love and Ethics (Key)
Lincoln, Abraham, 51, 52
Lindblom, David, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194
Lins, Joseph, 193
Little, Billy, 118
Little, Francis, 6, 130, 131, 132–33, 161; Peoria house plans for, 16
Little, Mary, 130, 131, 132–33, 161
Little Review, 8, 56, 154, 160
Little Theater (Chicago), 56
Lloyd Jones, Ellen (Nell) (Wright’s aunt), 51; retirement of, 195–96; runs Hillside Home School, 52, 53, 132, 162, 200; Wright’s design for school of, 35, 56
Lloyd Jones, Enos, 55, 186
Lloyd Jones, James, 35, 53, 55
Lloyd Jones, Jane (Jennie) (Wright’s aunt), 51; retirement of, 195–96; runs Hillside Home School, 52, 53, 132, 162, 200; Wright’s design for school of, 35, 56
Lloyd Jones, Jenkin, 50, 55, 57, 164, 186, 188; as Civil War veteran, 51–52; creed of, 53; and Taliesin fire and murders, 191, 196
Lloyd Jones, John (Wright’s uncle), 35–36
Lloyd Jones, Mallie (Wright’s grandmother), 50, 52, 115
Lloyd Jones, Orrin, 193
Lloyd Jones, Ralph, 193
Lloyd Jones, Richard, 51, 55, 58n.32, 131
Lloyd Jones, Richard (Wright’s grandfather), 50, 52, 53, 114, 115, 116
Lloyd Jones, Thomas (Wright’s uncle), 23
Los Angeles Times, 9
Love and Ethics (Key): Borthwick’s translation of, 19, 151, 153–55, 160, 166; rival translation of, 151, 155, 160, 166; theme of, 19, 153
Love and Marriage (Key), 19, 153, 155, 160, 167–68
Loving Frank (Horan), 10
Lusitania (ship), 25
Madison (Wisconsin): Gilman and Gale in, 164; Shining Brow’s premiere in, 6, 10; Wright’s connections with, 56; Wright’s design for downtown hotel in, 55, 56; Wright’s plans for boat house in, 16
Madison Opera (Wisconsin), 6, 10
Maids of Rebecca (Welsh guerrillas), 50
Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (Gill), 9
marionette theater. See puppet theater
Marquette, Jacques, 35
marriage: Borthwick on, 128; lack of, as basis of Borthwick-Wright scandal, 3, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 57, 123–29, 131–32, 136, 139, 158, 161, 162, 202–3; reform of, 6, 8, 19, 56, 131, 153; Wright on, 23, 124–25, 134. See also divorce; motherhood
Marriott Library. See University of Utah
Martin, Darwin, 15, 25
Martin, Emma: house plans for, 16
Martin, Judith, 158
Martin, Lawrence, 36
masonry (“pop-out”), 79, 102, 117, 180. See also stone (for Taliesin)
McCarthy, Joseph, 53
McClure’s magazine, 157
McCrea, Ron, 14, 208
Mcgovern, Francis, 54
Mcgregor, Alisdair, 133
Meech, Julia, 9, 36, 37, 134
Menocal, Narciso, 9
Metropolitan Museum of Art: living room of Francis little House in, 6, 130, 133; Spaulding brothers’ Japanese prints in, 136
Meudt, Edna. See Kritz, Kristin
Michelozzo di Bartolomeo Michelozzi, 27
Midway Gardens (Chicago), 6, 140, 140–41, 141, 143, 143–44, 162, 191, 192, 194; model of, 145; as self-contained world, 131; sprites decorating, 9, 143, 145
Miller, Miles, 108
Millor, Elsie, 25
Milwaukee (Wisconsin) socialists, 51, 56
Minnich, Jerry, 176, 177
Miss Lulu Bett (Gale), 166
Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts, 9
Mohammed (prophet), 124
Mollenhoff, David, 55
Monaghan, Thomas, 9
Monroe, Harriet, 56
The Morality of Women (Key), 127–28; Borthwick’s translation of, 153, 153–54, 155
Mormons, 10
Morse, Edward, 197
Mortensen, Henry T., 195
motherhood: Borthwick on, 202–3; Gilman on, 165–68; Key on, 11, 147, 149, 158, 162, 168
“Motherliness” (Key), 158
Mozart and Salieri (Pushkin), 29
“The Murders at Taliesin” (McCrea), 10
Murphy, Keiran, 10, 108
Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), 136
Museum of Modern Art (New York), 9
Musical America, 143
Mysteries & Scandals series (E! Entertainment Network), 10
Nancy (France), 17, 153
National Symphony Orchestra of Chicago, 143
“natural” house: Italian inspiration for, 27; Wright on, 114–19. See also “pop-out” masonry; Prairie style
Nee, Frank, 192
The Neighbors (Gale), 166
Nelson, William Francis, 199n.23
Nesbit, Evelyn, 123
Neutra, Richard, 134
“New Education,” 53
New York Times, 4
Niedecken, George Mann, 35, 81, 86, 105–6, 136
Nielsen, Ejnar, 148
Nineteenth-Century Women’s Club, 56, 151
Noel, Miriam. See Wright, Miriam Noel
Noordam (ship), 25
Northome (Littles’ summer home in Minnesota), 130, 132–33, 144
Oak Park (Illinois): Borthwick as former resident of, 56, 151; Catherine Tobin Wright and family in, 21, 114, 123–26; photographs developed in studio at, 36; puppet theater designed for, 104; Wright’s remodeling of his family home in, 26
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 137
Olmsted and Olmsted landscape nursery, 60, 61
Orth, Robert, 6, 7
Oswald, Heather, 120n.1
Panama Canal, 188
Paris (France), 17
PBS, 10
Pea
rce, William, 196
Pengally, W. R., 125, 126, 127
Perkins, Dwight, 164
Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks, 5–6, 9
Phillips, John S., 157
photographers (of Taliesin I). See Fuermann, Clarence; Woolley, Taylor A.
Physical Geography of Wisconsin (Martin), 36
Pitkin, Jessie Borthwick, 170n.81
Poetry magazine, 56
“pop-out” masonry, 79, 102, 117, 180
Portage (Wisconsin) High School, 164
Porter, Andrew, 23, 56, 186, 189, 193. See also Tanyderi (Porter home)
Porter, Franklin (Frank; Jane Porter’s son), 23–24, 191–92
Porter, Jane (Jennie) Wright (Wright’s sister), 3, 56, 124, 186; on Julian Carlton, 192; on la Follette day, 52; on rural women’s isolation, 56, 165; support for Wright from, 23–24, 161; Taliesin near land of, 23, 56. See also Tanyderi (Porter home)
Prairie style (Wright’s), 9, 108, 130, 133, 175. See also “natural” house
Progressive movement, 50–55, 164, 165, 171n.95, 188
puppet theater (Frank Lloyd Wright’s), 104–7, 106, 144, 145; photo of, at Taliesin, 11, 104, 106, 107; scenery for, 11, 18, 104, 105. See also stages
Pushkin, Alexander, 29
Putnam, George, Jr., 25, 153, 154, 157, 158, 160
Putnam’s (publishers), 8, 25, 153, 171n.93
“Queen of the gardens” sprite (at Midway gardens), 143, 145
Racine Daily Journal, 126
Reese, John, 175
Reider tract (of land), 23, 25
Republican Party, 51
La Revue, 160
Ripon (Wisconsin), 51
Riverside (Chicago suburb), 137. See also Avery Coonley Playhouse
Roberts, Isabel, 60
Rodin, Auguste, 157
Rolland, Romain, 8, 154, 160
Roman remains (in Fiesole), 17, 22, 26
Romeo and Juliet: as name of Wright-designed windmill tower, 35, 45, 48, 114; in puppet theater scenery, 11, 105, 105
Ruskin, John, 50
Safford, Mary Joanna, 160
Sandburg, Carl, 56
San Francisco Call: Wright’s design for skyscraper for, 131, 137, 144
Satsu (Japanese servant), 134, 136
Scandinavian style, 9
Schindler, Rudolph, 134
Secrest, Meryle, 9, 50, 189
