© Mark Hertzberg (2025)

Today’s joy in the World of Wright is to wish Roland Reisley a happy 101st birthday! He and I were walking into Monona Terrace during the 2018 Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy conference in Madison when we passed this photograph and he exclaimed, “This is a photo of me working with Mr. Wright (and with David Henken, as Usonia was taking shape)!” He let me photograph him with the Pedro Guerrero photo:

This is a link to the tribute I posted a year ago to mark his 100th birthday:

https://wrightinracine.net/2024/05/19/happy-100th-roland-reisley-day/

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church:

Work continues at the church in Wauwatosa, outside Milwaukee. Last fall I posted photos of the work on the roof:

https://wrightinracine.net/tag/annunciation-greek-orthodox-church/

When I visited last week, leading a Road Scholar tour, work had just finished pouring new concrete for the front steps. When outside work is finished, attention will shift inside, under the dome, as the carpet and pew cushions are replaced, and the pews are refinished.

Taliesin News:

Taliesin Preservation (TPI) is advertising that they are hiring seasonal workers, with signs below Riverview Terrace, the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitors Center:

This is the link to follow if you are interested:

https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/careers/

The most dramatic work on campus is evidenced by the scaffolding and plastic covering at the Assembly Hall at Hillside Home School because of water incursion. Repairs will be ongoing.

TPI has launched a new “Frank Lloyd Wright in Madison” experience in partnership with Destination Madison and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Details are at:

https://www.visitmadison.com/wright-in-madison/

My wife and I will be traveling to Banff National Park in Alberta later this spring. Wright’s 1911 Banff National Park Pavilion was demolished ca. 1938, but we have connected with someone who will show us where it stood. I will post after our trip. Here are two links for more information about the ill-fated Pavilion:

https://www.banff.ca/487/Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Pavilion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff_National_Park_Pavilion

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