© Mark Hertzberg (2025)

It was an overcast, uninspiring day to photograph Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, Wisconsin. I was helping lead my 26th Wright tour for guests from Road Scholar, and had decided to leave my “real” camera on the bus. After all, what would I see different on my umpteenth visit on a gray day? Given the dank sky, I took only my phone with me. The light changed dramatically at 5:06 p.m. when the sun unexpectedly broke through the clouds. I started photographing the original church building while the guests were looking at the 2008 Atrium addition designed by Kubala Washatko Architects, Inc. One of them called me over to show me the reflection of the church in the windows of the Atrium. Bingo! Thank you, Ned, for calling me over to tell me that the pattern of the windows made you think of the Pyrex-glass tubing you had seen yesterday at SC Johnson in Racine!

Links:

Unitarian Meeting House

https://www.unitarianmeetinghouse.org

Road Scholar Illinois / Wisconsin weeklong tour…come join us, we have five dates scheduled for 2026:

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

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