Photos © Mark Hertzberg (2025)

This is a quick update on some developments in the World of Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin, from another Road Scholar tour I helped lead this week:

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church – Wauwatosa

Workers smooth out newly poured concrete at the entrance to the church Thursday June 19. This is part of Phase 2 of work at the church.

Phase 1 saw repairs to the roof last year and work on the gate to the garden level.

Phase 3 will see new carpeting, and cushions for the pews next year, as well as the pews being refinished. Photos of the roof work are at:https://wrightinracine.net/2024/12/10/greek-church-roof-resplendent-again/

Taliesin: The pond, which Wright is said to have referred to as Lake Taliesin, is filled again, after an absence of several years, and waters flows over the dam by the original entrance to the estate:

Wyoming Valley School: The school opened in early 1958 and closed in 1990. Today it was filled with the sound of children again, children participating in the Wyoming Valley Experience, a six-week long summer art camp. The adults shown in one of the two classrooms are guests from the Road Scholar tour:

Earlier in the day the Road Scholar guests were unexpectedly invited into a Wright home which is not normally open to tours (which is why I am not identifying it). One of the guests told me he was thrilled to see a house that is being lived in, as opposed to another house museum. Indeed, and that is why it was also so heartening to see children in the school.

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Links to Wyoming Valley School; Taliesin Preservation, and Road Scholar’s weeklong tour in Chicago, Oak Park, Racine, Milwaukee, Madison, ad Spring Green:

https://www.wyomingvalleyschool.org

https://www.taliesinpreservation.org

https://www.roadscholar.org/find-an-adventure/22976/Architectural-Masterworks-of-Frank-Lloyd-Wright